This guitar is 33 inches long and was conceived in order to travel in plane cockpits to avoid damage during flyght transports.
It is particulary well balanced, and you will find even more comfort and playability than a regular instrument .
It has a standart 24.562” scale lenght.
The neck is made of very old mohagony and is reinforced in its center by a piece of rosewood.
two carbon rods are inserted against a double way adjustable truss rod.
The frettboard, made of ebony, has 22 frets and is radiused from 12 to 16 inch.
The peg head is thicker than usual and is reinforced on its front and back faces by a thick veneer of rosewood,
with a hill on the back side. It is glued to the body, and bolted with four srews.
The base of the body is made of mohagony, and the top is an assemblage of curly mapple in the center and rosewood on the sides.
The overall is hand carved, arched on the top and curved on the back and gives a perfect comfort while beeind played.
It is equiped with a jazz mini humbbucker at neck position, and the tremolo bar is mounted with RMC midi saddles, controled by a volume and tone for the humbucker, and volume for the midi output.

The instrument is sealed and finished with poluréthane.

You can see and hear John mc Laughlin playing this guitar on :
Carlos SANTANA dvd "Live at Montreux , Hymns for Peace" 2004
Eric CLAPTON dvd "Crossroads Guitar Festival" 2004
John McLAUGHLIN with SHAKTI (on YouTube)