This baby is pristine!

... constructed the old way - with hide glue, throughout, and historically-accurate detailing confirmed by using a CAT scan machine located at the Smithsonian Institute. Based on a 1939 D-18 in our museum, this guitar features genuine mahogany back and sides, an Adirondack spruce top, using an authentic circa 1939 bracing pattern. Period-correct "18" Authentic-style appointments, with an Authentic neck barrel and heel, complete this piece."

• top: Adirondack spruce
• b&s: mahogany

• dovetail neck joint

• hide glue construction

• 14 frets to body

• rosette:: old-style 18 multi-stripe

• bracing:

  • pattern: Authentic 1939 rearward shifted X-brace

  • shape: scalloped

  • material: Adirondack spruce with VTS

  • size: 5/16"

• back purfling/strip: Madagascar rosewood
• endpiece: taux tortoise
• binding: faux tortoise
• top inlay material: multi-stripe
• neck:
  • genuine mahogany
  • shape: Authentic 1939
  • taper: standard
• nut: bone, 1 11/16"
• headstock shape: solid, with 1939 taper
• Headplate
  • material: Madagascar rosewood
  • logo style: script Golden Era overlay
• heelcap: ebony
• fingerboard
  • material: ebony
  • width at nut: 1 11/16"
  • width at 12th fret: 2 1/8''
  • inlay material: abalone
  • inlay style: old-style 18
  • side dots: grained ivoroid
• Scale: 25.4"
• frets to body: 14
• total frets: 20
• finish: vintage gloss
• bridge:
  • material: ebony
  • style: Authentic Belly - glue-in long
  • string spacing: 2 1/8''
  • saddle: bone
    • radius: 16"
• tuning machines: nickel open gear
  • knob: butterbean