Cascabel
"Cascabel" is a Spanish word for "rattle", and I'm not talking about something breaking down or those cute little things you give to children. This rattle has a bite!
This three-string build takes inspiration from the Dia de Los Muertos, the most obvious being the UV-resin filled, laser-engraved sugar skull on the face. Other cues are more subtle. The coffin is made from traditional pine with additional oak bracing on the interior and nailed front and back with copper-headed tacks. This build also features a death's head hawkmoth accent on the interior. The neck is maple with Indian rosewood and the whole build has been treated and darkened with witch's brew and fire and finished with orange and tung oil.
The resulting tone definitely reminds me of the desert. It's warm, balanced, and sparkly with an underlying hint of growl and drone from the resonator springs that run from the neck base to the box sides. The three-coil humbucker packs a creamy punch and it set in with blackened rosewood and leads through a tone and volume and straight to a puretone output jack.
Strung with Ernie Ball strings and tuned to DAD.
Serial number 2410027, handcrafted in Las Cruces, New Mexico.