Here's a lightly used Fender CP-60S solid top parlor guitar that's been converted into an eight-string, four course, instrument. Depending on the strings, tuning and musical style this can now be played as an octave mandolin, bouzouki, mandola, double-strung tenor or plectrum guitar, double-strung steel string baritone ukulele, a cello-mando, or even just a regular six-string.

Currently set up as an 8-string Tenor guitar tuned CGDA, it's playing absolutely beautifully with resonance and sustain for days. This particular instrument also plays beautifully strung with heavier strings in GDAE.

The underlying guitar is an excellent budget instrument with a solid spruce top. Perfect action, room on the saddle, working truss rod. Very nice cosmetically with only a few small blemishes.

The conversion process entailed, among other steps, resizing tuner holes, fitting two additional tuners, adapting the nut, modifying and raising the saddle, adding four bridge pin holes in the correct positions, and exploring various setups to optimize the instrument in this eight-string configuration. The original bridge pin holes and nut slots are retained, so this instrument can be returned to a six-string configuration with just a slight nut modification.

Ships fast, well protected, and fully insured. Cases available, please contact me if you'd like one added to the listing.

By the way, I'm happy to do a similar conversion on your instrument, either something you already own or a model you buy new for the purpose. Not all acoustic guitars can easily accommodate the extra pins and tuners, but many can. Shoot me a message or visit wisterialutherie.com/conversions if you're interested!