King Six 3 String Fretted CBG

Fresh out of the Shonky Workshop is this lovely little 3 string fretted CBG.I'm particularly fond of the fender strat Inspired reversed headstock. This is the second time I have used purpleheart as the bridge and nut and I think it works very well.
Anyway here are the pics and bumf from my Shonkymusicalinstruments.co.uk

The King Six is a short scale 3 string fretted CBG

This CBG has a nice rustic look to it and in the best tradition of Cigarbox guitars made from mostly recycled, reclaimed or re-used material. (The strings, piezo and jack socket are new)

Despite it's tiny size this CBG kicks out some volume. it's certainly loud enough to practice on or mic up without amplification although it also has a piezo installed too.

Not only is it loud it also delivers a really sweet mellow tone. The Purpleheart floating bridge and nut Combined with the Australian Walnut through neck construction gives great sustain and clarity.

This guitar is fretted with 20 Narrow / Medium frets. and strung with a .013,.017 .026 Martin acoustic strings. and tuned to DAD.

of course you are welcome and encouraged to try different string / tuning combinations.

It is set up for combination slide / fingering so it is low enough particularly at the headstock end to finger chords and do little runs etc and yet be just high enough so you don't keep hitting the frets.

Specifications:

Body: Vintage Oak King Six cigar box

Neck: Australian Walnut

Headstock: Paduak reversed.

Bridge: Purpleheart

Nut: Purpleheart

Frets: 20 Narrow / Medium nickel silver.

Tailpiece: Aluminium (Maybe)

Machine heads: Gold

Length: 30.5" (70.5cm)

Width: 5.5" (40.4cm)

Scale Length: 23" (58.5cm)

Weight: 1.6lbs (750g)

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