CHATEAU REAL serial no. 14

This 3-string acoustic build was based on a recent purchase I made: a SEAGULL MERLIN. I started with a similar box that I had used for build #6, Using a neck-through design, the real steel frets were placed exactly as the MERLIN'S. Scale length was set to 21" based on the MERLIN as well, however moved back a bit to capture optimal sound. No 4th (unison) string was added. It's a great blues finger-picker and can get pretty loud when a pick is used.

UPDATE 6-2015: This one $old to a friend at work!