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PRE-OWNED Chickenbone John 3 string Aurora single coil pickup guitar and case

Product Description

Here a chance to pick up a bargain!. It's an early model ChickenboneJohn 3 string, built on an attractive Aurora box with chrome effect soundhole trims. It's very lightly used and comes with a hard case (not made by us but perfectly serviceable and robust).

5 piece laminated sapele and ash neck, sapele fretboard, Van Gent medium frets with white face dots and side position dot markers with a real bone nut. The neck is fully profiled by hand using traditional gun stock oil and a final wax polish for great playability and comfortable in-the-hand feel.

23 3/4 inch scale, fitted with super light d'Addario nickelwound strings.

Tuned G D G.

Chrome "tele" single coil pickup, volume and tone control with cream chickenhead knobs.

Good quality sealed back machine heads.

Maple fretwire bridge, aluminium tailpiece with decorative laminated wood cover to match the neck.

Chrome strap button on the tailpiece.. 

Guitar  - overall length 790mm,  box  245 long x 165 wide x 40mm deep.

36mm wide neck at the nut, 26mm string spacing at the nut, 29mm 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: 1.0mm

Action at 12th fret: 2.25mm

Serial #385 -this quite an early guitar from our workshop (2012) but is very lightly used and in remarkably good condition, showing only very light wear on the face of the box.

 

£145.00
Maximum quantity available reached.

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