MAX SCHWARTZ'S SARAH RYAN

Max Schwartz, my pal and favorite amplifier builder, commissioned this - his second Creston guitar. Sarah Ryan outdid herself with a a beautiful hand-painted design. Lightweight alder body, maple neck with a 12"-radius ebony fretboard, single Lollar LEA-90 alnico-pole pickup, single volume control, three-saddle toploader bridge, staggered vintage-style tuners, bone nut, nitrocellulose lacquer. Ornate as it is, it's a stripped-down rock n' roll music machine.