Creston Electric

PHOTOS BY JESSICA ANDERSON
2012-09-04
OLD WOOD,

DAVID BRYANT'S WATER TANK CUSTOM

David Bryan't guitar: 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 2012 when it found itself assembled into this guitar.

Mahogany neck, ebony fretboard, steel pickguard, Bigsby B5, antique knobs, Lollar 1950s-wind soapbar pickups, sneaky series / phase switches, master volume, master tone, kill button.

See David here.