BRAD FLORETH'S WATER TANK CUSTOM

Another guitar for Brad Floreth: 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.

Mahogany / Rosewood neck, Lollar LEA-90 bridge pickup, Lollar 1950s-wind P90 neck pickup, 1-ply bakelite pickguard, toploader bridge.