Custom built for renowned blues musician Catfish Keith, the Santa Cruz Catfish Special is a custom 1929 O model with a small body and a giant voice. This parlor sized guitar boasts an all figured Mahogany construction, giving it a remarkable amount o projection, a defined and musical mid range, and dynamic voice that is perfect for the blues. Paired with its tortoise/ivoroid rosette, ivoroid binding, and V Mahogany neck, this Santa Cruz Catfish Special is a modern, classy take on the timeless parlor body shape.
- Year: 2020
- Top: Figured Mahogany
- Back & Sides: Figured Mahogany
- Rosette: Ivoroid / Tortoise/ Ivoroid
- Purfling: Black .020
- Backstrip: None
- Body Binding: Ivoroid
- Neck: Mahogany
- Neck Profile: V
- Fretboard Wood: Ebony
- Peg Head Style: Solid Vj
- Peg Head Veneer: Ebony
- Fretboard Binding: Ivoroid
- Fretboard Inlays: None
- Tuners: Waverly Nickel w/ Ebony
- Bridge: Ebony
- Pins: Bone
- Saddle Material: Bone
- Saddle Type: Drop-in, Compensated
- Nut Material: Bone
- Pickguard: Tortoise – O17 shape
- Nut Width: 1 3/4”
- Spacing at Saddle: 2 3/16”
- Scale Length: 24 3/4”
- Body Depth: 4 3/4”
- Body Length: 19”
- Upper Bout: 9 1/2”
- Lower Bout: 13 1/8”
- Truss Rod: Adjustable
- Brace Pattern: Scalloped X-Bracing
- S/N: 359