Built by one of the most celebrated active luthiers, Arthur "Butch" Boswell, in his shop in Bend, Oregon. All Boswell guitars come with a hand-written spec sheet and deluxe hardshell case.
The top wood of this OM guitar comes from an abandoned railway tunnel in Northern California, where Butch went exploring on a hunch; he thought he might find some incredible wood for building guitars after the success of the findings at another historic railway tunnel in the Siskiyou Mountains of Oregon, Tunnel 13. (That was where the infamous "last great American train robbery" took place in 1923. It was actually a botched mission that killed several innocent rail workers and jump-started American forensic science, but remains part of old American West lore.) Butch's idea turned out to be extremely fruitful as he discovered a hidden trove of gorgeous old-growth redwood that had been cut down over 150 years before. He and his build partner personally collected and treated each beam of Lost Tunnel redwood themselves, yielding some of the most beautiful and resonant guitar tops he'd ever encountered.
Limited Edition, Serial #081 was built with the following standard specs, plus some custom options particular to this guitar.
SPECS
Top: Tunnel 13 Redwood
Back & sides: Old Growth Brazilian Rosewood
Bracing, Top: German Spruce Double X
Bracing, Back: German Spruce Ladder with Brazilian/Ebony/Brazilian perpendicular stabilizer bar
Fingerboard: Brazilian Rosewood, 25.5” scale, 16” radius, 1 23/32” at nut, 2 3/16” at 12th fret, Ebony-bound w/Maple interior purfling line work
Bridge: Brazilian Rosewood, OM Belly profile, 2 3/16” E to e spacing, solid bone pins w/Abalone dots
Binding: African Ebony bound body, fingerboard & peghead
Purfling: Simple black/white line work throughout
CUSTOM OPTIONS: Limited Design Package… Custom matched Brazilian RW bridge, fingerboard and peghead overlay; Tiled Mosaic rosette and matched end-graft; custom top burst; custom voicing and bracing
