XL and XLD Guitars
Specifications Scale length: 24.9 inches Overall length: 39 inches Width at lower bout: 15.8 inches Body depth at neck: 3.313 inches, XLD 3.775 inches Body length: 19.75 inches Body depth at end plate: 4.06 inches, XLD 4.38 inches
Sycamore XL    Sycamore XL, German spruce top, jatoba bindings three-piece walnut neck, ebony finger board and bridge, cherry burl headstock veneer, Grover Statite tuners
12-Fret XL Deluxe Special Model    This guitar is the first in a series of instruments with carvings of the twelve figures of the Chinese zodiac. The first creature is the rat: forthright, tenacious, intense, meticulous, charismatic, sensitive, intellectual, industrious, charming, eloquent, sociable, artistic, shrewd. The instrument has a pre-WWII German Spruce top, forty-five year-old quilted big leaf maple back and sides, paua abalone top perimater and rosette, herringbone and paua abalone back stripe, flamed jatoba bindings with mitered black and white wood purflings on the sides and back, ebony and ivoroid fingerboard binding, cocabolo and holly front headstock veneer and quilted elm back headstock veneer, mahogany neck with gold-plated Schaller Mini tuners with black chrome grasps.