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Trouble Brothers

Model 011-92

• Weight:  8 lbs.
• Scale Length:  25 1/2 in.
• Hardware:  Schaller roller bridge; Schaller tuners; Gibson P-100 (P-90 humbucking) pickups; Master volume/master tone concentric controls with blend control.
• Materials:  2 piece mahogany body; maple neck with maple fingerboard.  Fire & cycle headstock carving.​
• Project started in 92; completed in 95.
• $2,500
  

Yes, the hats are part of the same piece of mahogany-ebonized, then partly painted.  Compare the hats to the painted but mostly natural mahogany colored faces.

This has a Strat style neck that I recarved the headstock of. It’s a nice player. The motorcycle is a bastard mix of BMW & Triumph features that probably gives purists the willies, but that’s what you’ll see when you ride with these two.  Custom all the way!

A gun-builder told me about ebonizing, which causes a  chemical reaction in the wood that makes some of it darken toward black and some of it not to. It’s a nice effect that they use on gun stocks. Put a couple wads of steel wool into a jar of vinegar and wait for it to dissolve; strain, and brush it on. It really raises the grain. Wood that has a lot of tannin in it works best.

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