The Blue Roses is the other two-pickup T-style El Cabron built for this event, and it runs the same electronics: a Curtis Novak gold foil at the neck and a custom hand-wound 20k Esquire pickup at the bridge, through a volume and a greasebucket tone. The greasebucket circuit takes top end off without pushing the bass up as it goes, so the tone knob stays usable through its whole sweep rather than turning to mud at the bottom.
The finish is hand-painted and worth looking at closely: pale blue across the whole body, with roses and blossoms drawn over the face in a fine pearlescent white line. It reads as a plain light blue guitar from across the room and as something else entirely once you are standing over it. The sides and back are left plain.
Alder body. Maple neck in the "Dull V", .950" at the first fret and .980" at the twelfth, 25.5" scale, 6105 fretwire and brass side dots, with a Bi-Flex butt-adjust truss rod.
SPECIFICATIONS
Model: Custom 2 Pickup T Style Blue Roses
Body: Alder
Finish: Hand-painted
Neck: Maple, "Dull V" profile
Neck Profile: .950" at the 1st fret, .980" at the 12th
Scale Length: 25.5"
Frets: 6105 fretwire
Side Dots: Brass
Truss Rod: Bi-Flex, butt adjust
Neck Pickup: Curtis Novak Gold Foil
Bridge Pickup: Custom hand-wound 20k Esquire
Controls: Volume, Greasebucket tone