Blindworm Guitars
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The Kraken

Best of all worlds. Fully acoustic, Magnetic/Piezo/MIDI pickups. Extreme precision and amazing sound quality all the way around. Plus it eats viking ships for breakfast, when it finds them…

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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