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The Big Chief and the Zulu Queen

Model 009-91

• Completed in 1995
  
• Weight:  10 lbs.
• Length: 25 1/2 inch neck scale
• Hardware:  3 Carvin single coil pickups; Schaller tuners and roller bridge; 5-way gold-contact switch.
• Materials:  2 piece mahogany body with 3 piece maple and mahogany neck with rosewood fingerboard
• $1,300

Mardi-Gras Indians all dressed up and ready to Second Line.

Umbrella and dabloons headstock. The neck is meaty with smooth low-ish action; maple with mahogany in the center.  The truss-rod cover is cut from a piano key-top.  Overall, a commanding look and sound.

I finished the body for this one in '91. Then it sat in a box for years.  I built the neck, based on Bob Benedetto's mighty-fine book, converting his style to a bolt-on.  I completed the whole piece in '95.  It's big, it's beautiful, it rocks, it weighs just this side of heavy.

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