Cardinal Zenith Douglas Fir Milk Paint Finish

Sam Evans, designer and builder of Cardinal Instruments creates unique, inspiring, and beautifully hand crafted guitars, basses and lapsteels. Using locally harvested woods, locally made custom hardware, eco-friendly finishing processes, and pickups made in-house, Cardinal offers players the tools needed to best express their musical identity.

• Model: Zenith
• Serial Number: Z17117
• Body Wood: Solid Douglas Fir (65+ Year old reclaimed stock)
• Neck Wood: Maple
• Neck Profile: Medium C-Carve, 0.84" depth at 1st fret, 1.00" depth at 12th
• Fingerboard: Indian Rosewood
• Scale Length: 25.5"
• Fretboard Radius: 10"-12"
• Frets: Jumbo, 21-EVO
• Inlays: White Dots
• Binding: Tortoise Shell
• Nut: Vintage Bone, 1.73" width
• Tuners: Hipshot Open Gear w/Pearloid Buttons
• Bridge: Cardinal T-Bridge Aged
• Pickguard: None
• Pickups: Cardinal CITb (Bridge) @7.7k  and Cardinal CI90 (Neck) @8.1K
• Controls: Volume and Tone, 3-Way Toggle (CTS, Switchcraft)
• Finish: Mil Paint Finish on body. Tru-Oil Finish on Fretboard and Neck
• Case: Gator Hardcase
• Weight: 6 lbs 15 oz
• Observations: Back Wood Reclaimed 65 Year Old Stock (Last guitar of the batch), Tortoise  Binding, Cardinal Hardware
• Handmade In Austin - Texas

"Cardinal Instruments creates unique, inspiring, and beautifully hand crafted guitars, basses and lapsteels. Using locally harvested woods, locally made custom hardware, eco-friendly finishing processes, and pickups made in-house, Cardinal offers players the tools needed to best express their musical identity.

Zeniths started out as a catchall for custom ideas, and that led to some amazing guitars. But when I stumbled onto some 70-year old Douglas fir, that changed…..immediately. Its resonance and consistency were exactly what I was looking for in a body wood. An added bonus was the discovery that Orford cedar and western red cedar were equally as wonderful. Consider the Zenith now dialed-in."