"Sir Bill" shares a similar body to "Treebeard" but with a shorter neck becomes a 655mm scale length 12 fretter. With light gauge strings this is an ideal guitar for open and model tunings, tuning down really well with a deep rich tone but balance across the strings.
Specification
Scale length:
655mm
Top:
European spruce
Back/sides:
Indian Rosewood
Lower bout width:
395mm
Upper bout width:
300mm
Waist width:
220mm
Overall length:
1,030mm
Max rim depth:
117mm
Neck:
Mahogany bolt on with 2 way adjustable truss rod and twin carbon fibre rods.
Tuners:
Gotoh gold
Nut width:
Bone, 46mm.
Saddle/string spacing:
Split bone saddle, 56mm
Bridge:
Pinless or slotted oinned, Macassar ebony
Fingerboard:
Ebony bound with ebony, bwb purfling, radiused, 2.5mm MoP side dot markers
Frets:
19, heavy Japanese
Binding:
Maple, bwb purfling on top, back and sides, De Faoite Standard rosette, end graft matching binding.
Finish:
Top, back and sides are either hand rubbed pre-catalysed lacquer or French Polished and toped with thin coats of Tru-oil. Tru-oil neck.
