The body is constructed from joined two piece alder and has a ¼" spalted maple top plate that also displays flaming. The top is dropped to allow forearm clearance and has a black binding to protect the spalted maple which is softer due to the disease process that produces the spalting effect. The body is rear routed the body to allow as much of the maple to be exposed as possible. The back body is stained with a transparent brown, while the top is natural. The finish is modern urethane to give more protection since there is no pick guard, and to give some increased strength to the spalted maple.

The neck is bolt on style constructed of Canary, also known as Arariba. This wood produces a tone that is a bit warmer than maple, somewhat similar to Bubinga, and does not need to have a finish applied. The shape of the neck is similar to a Clapton V, but a bit asymmetric and softer than the typical Clapton V, and is 1-5/8" at the nut. With the exception of the peg head, this neck is unfinished.

The finger board is Macassar Ebony with some nice cream colored striping, and has abalone dot markers. The 22 frets are Dunlop 6105's set at a 25.5" scale and has a compound radius starting at 10" at the nut, and 16" at the 22nd fret. The compound radius provides easy chording at the lower end, and with more accurate string bending on the high end. The nut is Graphtech TUSQ, a man made equivalent to ivory in performance.

The tuners are gold Sperzel locking tuners with staggered post heights. The staggered height posts eliminate the need for string trees on straight angled headstocks. I've used black satin chrome for the knobs to eliminate fingerprints, and wear that normal gold plated hardware experiences. I think the Sperzel tuners are the best around.

The bridge is a modern two post pivot tremolo and is Fender made. The cast Fender tremolo block is replaced with a Callaham cold rolled steel block which increases clarity and sustain. The bridge saddles are Graphtech FerraGlide which are graphite impregnated. This provides improved tremolo action and reduces string breakage when string bending. I have installed a Dirckson Tremconverter to allow locking and throw control of the tremolo. Locking the tremolo while string bending increases accuracy of your bends.

This guitar has hand wound Van Zandt pickups. The neck pickup is a single coil Vintage Model. The middle pickup is a single coil Blues Model, and the bridge pickup is a Trubucker humbucker. These pickups are solid mounted to gold plated brass mounting rings. This improves sustain and tone over the adjustable height pickups common on most guitars.

The pickups are wired with a single CTS volume control and two CTS tone controls. The tone controls utilize Sprague Orange Drop capacitors. The control cavity and cover are shielded to reduce hum. The pot knobs are rosewood with a single 2mm Paua Abalone position dot. The pickups are controlled by a five position CRL switch.