Features of this guitar:

* 17 inch wide body
* 3 1/4 inch side depth
* 25 1/2 inch scale length
* handcarved and tuned European spruce top
* handcarved and tuned birds'eye maple back
* acoustic hollow body with hand-bent sides
* binding on front of body and back
* ebony fingerboard with block pearl inlays
* two piece maple neck
* hand-made Brazilian rosewood bridge
* bound f-holes
* Grover keystone tuners
* Slaman logo and flowerpot handcut in Mother of Pearl
* Gold L5style tailpiece
* handmade Kent Armstrong single coil pickup
* volume control
* treble bleed switch 0,001 mf
* bound fingerboard and headstock
* bound pickguard
* traditional sunburst finish
* D'Addario 013 flatwound strings

 

This guitar features an Armstrong alnico single coil pickup (handmade by Kent Armstrong in the USA; more info on the Pickups page) and..................man, what a sound !

 

It's the perfect pickup for this guitar; clean, warm, vintage bell-like sound with a hot output of over 10 kOhm.

In fact, on my Ampeg Super jet tube amplifier ( a re-issue) the guitar sounds just like one of my favourite players, Kenny Burrell.

I have a cd by the Kenny Burrell Trio, 'All night long', recorded live at the Village Vanguard in New York, 1959 ; it's exactly that sound. A bell like tone when played lightly, and when you put a little more attack on the strings you slide into this smooth, velvet, sexy crunch.
Kenny plays a non-cutaway Epiphone with a D'Armond pickup. (now all I have to do is to learn to play like Kenny............................ -come back and see me in the year 2435- ........)

If you don't have the cd, look for it, it's hot. Just Kenny and drums and upright bass.

If you look at the photo closely, you'll see a little switch under the pickguard, just above the pickguard bracket. That triggers a treble bleed 0.001 mf cap, that makes the tone even deeper and warmer for tunes that need it (some treble bleeds to ground).