This was the first Tunnel 13 off the tables and tools of Bruce and Matt Petros' shop. It is the one that the song Siskiyou Line was written on--about the tunnel's infamous history (See the youtube link). In the 1990s the railroad pulled most of the old-growth timbers out of Tunnel 13 and replaced them with concrete piers. Those Redwood timbers were originally cut down in the 1880s. They stayed in the tunnel for 120 years before a series of fires made them expendable. Little did the railroad men know when they stacked them outside the tunnel that they'd extracted some 2,000 year old buried treasure for luthiers. There are a couple modifications that were made to this guitar. 1) I asked Bruce to fill in the neck dots (the ones the player sees) with a luminescent substance (so you can see where you're at on the neck when you're playing around a campfire). 2) I also added an extra plug for amplified sound. One is still hooked up to the Fishman Matrix, under the saddle. I used the other for a combination of pickups (which are not included in the sale) that were placed inside the guitar, that I fed into a stereo preamp (i.e. if my preamp was out, I still had the Fishman as a backup.
It has a great, rounded sound and the set up work (Denny Rauen) is exceptional.
