It's based on a Falstaff, but with a deeper body, 120mm at the base. The two scale lengths are 24 3/4 inches and 26 inches. ( yes, I know, I'm mixing my metrics, so phone the police) . That isn’t a huge amount of “fan”, but it's enough to make the bass string support  a low C and leave the treble strings with reasonable stretches for the left hand.  The guitar isn’t very much bigger than a standard instrument.

Part of the thinking resulted in the “ Square Fret” being at the 12-fret position, usually we would place that at about the 5th fret position, 

The back and sides are glorious "Pure" Cocobolo. The best you will ever see. It's common nowadays to use wild grained, exotic pieces of these rare hardwoods, because most of the "finer" grades have gone. I still have quite lot of that very best material, but Cocobolo is a horrible wood to work with and I'm very mindful of the implications for our health. We might not use it again, and if we do, it will be expensive.

The soundboard is a super piece of Englemann Spruce, extremely fine and even grained, with lots of cross grain silking, and a very gentle "Waving " along the length which you might just be able to see in the photographs, rather lovely.

When I was making the guitar, I found some excellent pieces of mahogany for the neck, but they were not very thick, and I had to decide what to do. Using the principle of "if you've got it, flaunt it", I decided to make a feature of it, and gain the extra width needed with contrasting pieces of Rosewood. I didn't ask Ben, and he has never said anything. Would I do that again? I really don't know. Comments welcome. Second thoughts, no, please don't.

The other neck laminations are Ash and Rosewood.

The woods used and the size of the guitar make this quite a heavy instrument, 2.5 kg, while the standard Falstaff is usually about 2.1kg.  The guitar has a huge sustain and massive "headroom" as a result. It really is rather special .

The guitar has a simple "Bevel" which helps with playing comfort on such a deep body. There are three or four very small dents in the lacquer near the bevel, and one rather annoying scratch running south from the sound hole, you should just be able to see it in the photographs. Ben told me that happened when another bands microphone fell on the guitar at a house concert, and he also said that nobody actually died as a result. It's only a light scratch, but it's very annoying. 

There are the usual scuff marks on the back from a busy life, and I think we can remove or improve most of the smaller imperfections.

The neck and action are perfect, there is a little fret wear which I'm happy to discuss, but with a guitar such as this I don’t want to remove any history until I've talked about it with any potential owner, so if you are interested. please do ask.

The neck is 45mm wide at the nut, with no fingerboard position markers, and the internal pickup is the Baggs Anthem.

Complete with Hiscox case, the guitar is for sale at £5,800 ono