The Shoreline Caster

The Shoreline Caster started its life as ‘The Sunburst Bigsby’. It is a Telecaster Style Guitar with chambered body. The original colour scheme was great but the guitar required some tweaks to make it perform at its best.

In an effort to put more string pressure on the Mastery bridge, the neck angle was increased to 3 degrees. Because of the thin maple cap on this build, it was necessary to refinish the top in an opaque paint as part of the maple cap in the neck area was removed during this adjustment. So it was sprayed Shoreline Gold and a custom pickguard was added for extra detail.

The finer details…

Mahogany body with flame maple cap.
Curly maple flame neck with rosewood fretboard, bolted neck.
Kluson style tuners.
Nickel frets with Tusq nut.
Top bound body with white plastic binding.
Shoreline Gold, with final finish in Durobond clear nitrocellulose.
Bigsby Trem with Mastery bridge.
Joe Barden – Danny Gatton pickups with master tone and volume.
3 – position lever switch.