Named after the Black Vulture, an electric three string made with a cakemold body. 22.75" scale, 21 frets. Neck made from piece of beech with Brazilian Greenheart fretboard. Handmade rosewood bridge. Woodburned some graphics in the fretboard. Also on the headstock with a bullskull inlay. Handpainted bullskull mandala painting on the back matching inlay on the headstock. Tailpiece made from a piece of skateboard maple and a tooled spatula where the strings attach to. Real cowshorn as leg support for comfortable playing. This matches the whole bullskull theme and looks pretty cool I think. Nice quality finish. Plays comfortable, pretty low action and perfect intonation :) Inside the body there is a spring behind the magnetic pickup. The pickup magnetizes the body so it has kind of a piezo feel to it, you can tap on the body too to get some interesting sounds. This gives the instrument a unique sound, but still with the clear tone of a magnetic pickup. Sounds great acoustic too, with a handcut f-hole to let the sounds out!

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Comment by AGP # on August 11, 2018 at 11:55am

Ditto Uncle John, I also did not see the horn in the previous couple of pics  :-D

Comment by Uncle John on August 11, 2018 at 2:22am

!!!  Somehow my eyes did not see that horn until now!  Cool.  And functional.

Comment by High Bird Handcrafted Instuments on August 11, 2018 at 2:17am

Thanks Dennis.. I put a knee rest on almost all my builds.. It really ads to the playing comfort but also makes it aesthetically more interesting to my opinion :)

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