Hi all,

Well, I thought I'd share with you this very early example of a square neck tricone.  It has some very interesting features.  First of all, if you look closely you can see that this being an early example has the wooden well.  It's been painted silver and screwed to the metal well it sits in.

The next feature that you can see are the diamong shaped cutouts in the body itself, with screens behind them.  This was done for a very short period of time.  As you can see below, the serial number is 112.

The headstock is in very nice shape, although missing one of it's original tuners.  Note two things on the headstock...

The decal has the green background instead of the black, and the tuners are the earlier design with the gear ABOVE the post instead of below it, which became the norm. Below is a view of the full guitar looking from behind with the early flat back to it.

Here we take another look at the face closer with the coverplate on.  You get a good feel for the look of the diamond cutouts, and also note an extra screw was put into the coverplate near the bottom, probably to try and remove a buzz.

Finally, let's take a look at the coolest feature of all, although the diamond cutouts are very cool themselves.  Note the grills. Rather than being stamped out, as was done for the majority of time, the very earliest ones actually had WOVEN grills that were hand soldered into place.  Very time and labor intensive, but really give it a handmade look and feel.

Well, there you go.  This is something you sure don't see everyday and very few were built in this manner.  The grille openings were ultimately stamped to save time and labor, and the wooden pan was ultimately also stamped and soldered to the top.  If you ever hear or play one of these, you will notice a tonal difference with the wooden pan in there. 

Hope you enjoy this little tour inside this very rare early model.  Best to all!  Lenny