This is another zebrano thinline semi-acoustic. The sides are formed (bent with heat as is done in standard acoustic guitar construction). The top is quilted maple. This one has a removable laminated zebrano pick guard. The neck is a mahogany/maple/mahogany lamination, reinforced with carbon fiber rods; thin veneers of maple and rosewood are between the laminations. The fingerboard and front and back peg head laminations are cocobolo.

 

 

Vintage style Telecaster pickups (Fender Original Vintage) are used at the neck and bridge position. A vintage style Stratocaster pickup (Torres hand wound "Very Vintage”) is in the middle position. Controls include master volume and tone, and a stratocaster style five-way selector switch.

 

The semi-hollow construction makes the guitar light, and coupled with the pickup selection, produces a pleasing sound with lots of single coil snap and sparkle.

 

I really like the zebrano. It bends nicely and looks great. I also like the thinline body style. I expect to make more like this.

 

The body, sound hole, neck, and peg head are bound with cocobolo. My standard JeSt inlay at the 12th fret, jester inlay on the pick guard, are done with aluminum wire.

 

wire. The peg head inlay is abalone shell and wir