"Slim Jim" was designed by the guitar muse Serendipity, and ended up about 25mm narrower in depth at the lower bout than I originally intended. The guitar is actually deepest at the waist at 100mm and drops to 92mm at both the neck and heel block. I was very excited with the tap tone of this one and it has come out of the blocks with the best sound of any that I have made so far . It has the balance and projection I was expecting with some really fat trebles and a nice mids/bass, but as I suspected, the narrower body gives it some extra "punch" which sits really nicely wit Clapton type bluesey numbers. The 655mm scale length helps giving a little extra tension on the strings.65omm scale length is an option at no extra charge
Specification:
Scale Length:
655mm (or 650mm)
Top:
European Spruce
Back / sides:
Indian Rosewood
Lower bout width:
410mm
Upper bout width:
298mm
Waist width:
229mm
Overall length:
1,029mm
Max rim depth:
100mm
Neck:
Mahogany with two way adjustable truss rod and twin carbon fibre rods
Tuners:
Gotoh gold
Nut/width:
Bone, 46mm
Bridge:
Pinless or slotted pinned, Macassar Ebony
Saddle/string spacing:
Split bone, 56mm
Fingerboard:
Ebony bound with ebony, bwb purfling, radiused, 2.5mm MoP side dot markers
Frets:
19 frets heavy Japanese
Binding:
Maple, bwb purfling, 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.
