JEFFREY SHAPIRO'S WATER TANK CUSTOM

Another guitar for Jeffrey Shapiro: western red cedar body that began its vocational life as a stave in a locomotive water tank on the trans-American railroad, circa late-1860s. In 1902, made redundant by a change in locomotive efficiency, it was torn down and recoopered into a pickle vat stave at a Fort Collins, CO pickle operation. In 1992, it was torn down again and sat dormant, air drying in the Rocky Mountains, until 2011 when it found itself assembled into this guitar.

1-piece maple neck, celluloid tortoise pickguard, Lollar low-wind Regal neck pickup, Lollar Special bridge pickup, toploader bridge with compensated brass saddles, momentary kill switch button.