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Robaina fretless cigar box guitar

Product Description

Classic "Robaina" cigar box with traditional f holes and fitted with a single coil pickup.

Beech through neck with a through body reinforcement, with a BlackwoodTek fingerboard, inlaid fret markers and position dots on the top edge of the neck and  ac machine screw nut. Our guitar necks are fully profiled by hand using traditional methods for great playability and comfortable in-the-hand feel. Finished with shellac, gun stock oil with a final wax coat.

25 1/2 inch scale length, Zilpha hexcore strings. Tuned G D G.

Single coil pickup wired with tone and volume controls, "orange drop" tone capacitor, Neutrik jack, chickenhead control knobs.

Quality "Epihone" Kluson pattern machine heads.

Chrome strap buttons.

Black walnut fretwire bridge. 

The fretless fingerboard is accurately marked, and opens up a new range of possibilities in terms of tone, with a unique nasal tone when played with the fingers. When played with a slide, theres no problem of rattlng the slide on the frets...because there aren't any!

Overall length 880mm,  box  270 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 position: 1.5mm

Action at 12th fret position: 2.25mm

Serial #2672

 

£242.00
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