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Moth is another one of a kind instrument in the vein of MG. It's a walnut and maple neck thru with a rosewood fretboard inlaid with a simple black and gold pearl moth. It's a mahogany body with wenge and bubinga laminated strips that dress up the back. The top is spalted maple with a walnut veneer between it and the mahogany. The carved curlicue on the upper horn, and the little spiky bit on the lower section are protrusions of the walnut veneer.
Most of the body is sprayed with dark green nitrocellulose lacquer, then pinstriped with metallic orange and black, coated with clear nitro and finished off with satin.
The headstock is sandwiched with matching spalted maple sections with Elite F-style mandolin tuners.
The control knobs are wenge with matching spalted maple caps. The pickups are likewise treated with matching epoxy covered tops and wenge covers. The pickups are wound to the same resistance but with the neck having 43ga wire and the bridge being 42 which gives them each a unique sound, the bridge being jangly and bright and the neck being warmer. With both selected they're humbucking. Internally they're built the same as all my pickups with Fender type flatwork and Alnico V slugs, wax potted.
The pickup cavity and control cavity are all shielded with copper foil grounded to the treble string via the string ferrule which grounds the other strings by means of the zero fret.
The bridge is cocobolo with an ebony wear section like a banjo bridge. It's tuned Dadd just now, with a 26 5/8" scale.
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I started with the bridge pickup, switched to both for humbucking, and then to the bridge position and then back through as I played, and turned the treble all the way up at the end and it sounds somewhat like:
A Minute Ten on Moth |
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