HARRIS THURMOND'S WATER TANK CUSTOM

Harris Thurmond's 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.

Maple / rosewood neck, celluloid tortoise pickguard, antique radio knobs, Lollar 1950s-wind P90s in disguise, Mastery bridge.