The body, which is made of African Padauk, weighed a ton. After much deliberation, I decided to cut it down to a smaller size to decrease the weight. I wanted to make a really simple, clean guitar: 2 pickups, volume, tone and a pickup selector switch. I put Charlie Christian style pickups in it, because I had never used these type of pickups before. The old recordings of Charlie Christian on record feature a guitar sound so raw and primal and flat out great that I just had to check it out for myself! The neck is a bit of a salvage piece: it’s a Gibson neck off an obscure late 70’s model called the RD Series (w/ electronics by Bob Moog!). The guitar body was long gone — all I got was the neck. And it’s a Gibson alright, but with a more Fender-style 25.5” scale length and a maple fingerboard! Definitely unusual!