“ … what we jokingly call the Monkey Ward job is something fun. It’s based on the Harmony Regal cheapie that everyone used to sell to gullible moms in the sixties. Sears, Western Auto, Montgomery Ward, you get the idea. It’s my idea of what that guitar would’ve been if it had been really cool.”

• b&s: claro walnut

• top: ancient Sitka, thrown in with a rosewood purchase years and years ago.

• scale: 24.9”

• neck: Port Orford cedar

• fingerboard: ebony

• bridge: ebony

• bracing: X

• Bob Armstrong of The Cheap Suit Serenaders plays his every day