The “Ruby”

Features:

THE BODY

Lower Bout: 16.3”

Upper Bout: 12”

Waist: 9.625”

Length: 19.75”

Depth: 3.25”

Top: AAA grade fine grain quarter-sawn Engelman spruce, aged since August 1993

Back: AAA curly quarter-sawn Sugar Maple, aged since June 1995

Sides: 5 ply curly maple veneer.

Kerfing: solid maple

Binding: Ivoroid celluloid, “herringbone” purfling of maple and black fiber.

Finish: 2 tone sunburst. Nitrocellulose Lacquer.  

THE NECK

Material:   Tiger Maple

Neck profile:      Deep “C”.

Neck thickness at 10th fret:    1”

Neck thickness at 1st fret:      0.9”

Nut width:        1.6825”

Fret board width at body:    2.25”

Nut material:     Bone.

Scale Length:     25”

Frets:   19 frets. Medium wide, Medium High 18% Nickel Silver.

Fret Board:   Indian Rosewood with Ivoroid binding. 12” radius, lemon oil finish. clay dots, black side dots.

Truss rod:   Double action. Removeable

Headstock:  Claro walnut burl.

Pearloid logo inlay. 

HARDWARE

Bridge:  Adjustable Rosewood.

Tailpiece: Rosewood with ebony inserts

Pick-guard:  Single ply, Black PVC, with wood and fiber purfling and Ivoroid celluloid binding.

Tuners:    Grover Sta-tite 18:1 nickel plated open tuners. 

Strings: Bronze Roundwound 12 ga