Instrument type
Fully hollow body, hybrid Jazz-style acoustic guitar.
Year built
2012
Body
Tight-grained Douglas Fir soundboard with carved Poplar back/sides.
Neck
5-piece Padauk
Fretboard and Pickguard
Bird’s Eye Maple salvaged from a table Andrew’s great grandfather built over 100 years ago.
Nut
Osage Orange
Bridge
Osage Orange tailpiece with Blindworm logo. Matching Osage Orange bridge plate. Ghost Resomatic Piezo/Midi bridge
Tuners
Hipshot locking open-gear
Headstock details
Fully carved Kraken in Padauk with MOP and Oak Burl eyes, Magnetic Poplar truss rod cover.
Pickups
Full Piezo, MIDI, and Magnetic (Seymour Duncan P-Rail)
Electronics Configuration
Ghost Acoustiphonic and Hexpander with maximum features and controls. Incorperated humbucker with coil-tap roll-off control. Resomatic Piezo/Midi bridge
Scale
23.5″
Finish
Water-Based Poly
Knobs/switches
Magnetic Volume, Magnetic Tone, Push-pull Piezo Volume/tone switch. MIDI Volume, MIDI Jack, Stereo Jack for Piezo and Magnetic Pickup. Mini switches: 3-way toggle from Piezo to MIDI, and a MIDI program selector switch for pedalboards and processors.
Fingerboard inlay
Scene of the Mighty Kraken, ripping apart an Oak burl ship with Mastodon tusk sails. Padauk Kraken tentacle fretmarkers with Dinosaur Bone accents. Orange alabaster Kraken beak. Mother of Pearl and Oak Burl Kraken eye.Green Poplar sea.
Side fret marker inlay
Two-tone Maple and Poplar
Additional accents
Magnetic cavity covers, Dinosaur Bone “B-snake” logo on back