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Colourful "Diplomaticos" cigar box with twin humbucker pickups. Matching decorated headstock for a little bit of added "bling" and matching bronze hardware. This has turned out to be a beautiful cigar box guitar with a lightly distressed look. 

Beechwood through neck and backstrap reinforcement, oak fretboard, Van Gent super-jumbo frets with black face dots and side position dot markers with a distressed machinescrew nut. Our guitar necks are fully profiled by hand using traditional methods with shellac, gun stock oil and a final wax polish for great playability and comfortable in-the-hand feel.

25 1/2 inch scale, fitted with balanced tension Zilpha nickelwound strings.

Tuned G D G.

Aged bronze humbucker pickups, volume and tone control with bronze "tele" knobs and 3-way selector switch, "orange drop" tone capacitor,  Van Damme hookup wire and Neutrik jack. There's plenty of punch from the humbuckers, and having twin pickups gives plenty of tonal variations.

Nice quality sealed back bronze finish machine heads.

Oak fretwire bridge. 

Bronze strap buttons and fancy corner protectors. 

Overall length 865mm,  box  275 long x 170 wide x 48mm deep.

35mm wide neck at the nut, 24mm string spacing at the nut, 26mm string spacing at the bridge. 

We set up our guitars for easy fretting and with an action that is also suitable for slide, so it is set a little higher that a standard electric guitar. We find this suits most of our customers, but if you have  any specific requirements for the set-up, please get in touch and we will do our best to meet your requirements.

Action at 1st fret: 0.25mm

Action at 12th fret: 1.50mm

Serial #2685

£425.00
Maximum quantity available reached.

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