The Big-Chief & the Zulu Queen
Last Summer, Herb took my picture with all
the Indians at the Ramada so
now we're back here at Mardi-Gras and
there's all these other kind of Indians
I tried to give one of them my room keys and
told Herb to find his own little pocahontas
he says are you crazy, but he
drools at this girl he's been drooling at while
Feather-man, I called him Mr. Feathers, he gives
me this look like I'm totally from Mars and
walks off with this absolutely beautiful like
African goddess
so now here's 20 bucks
I absolutely must have
your umbrella
(Model 009-91) Hand-carved and hand-painted two piece mahogany body.
Mardi-Gras Indians all dressed up and ready to Second Line. Umbrella and dabloons headstock.
I finished the body for this one in '91; then it sat in a box for
years. I finally took a shot at building a neck, based on Bob
Benedetto's mighty-fine book, converting his style to a bolt-on. I'm
in awe of people who know just what to do and have worked out a way to
communicate it. I completed the whole piece in '95. It's big, it's
beautiful, it rocks, it weighs just this side of heavy.
Colossal 25 1/2 inch scale maple and mahogany bolt-on neck;
rosewood fingerboard; three single coil Carvin pickups with 5-way gold
plated switch. Three on-a-side Schaller tuners and Schaller roller
bridge. Fully shielded. $3,000.00
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One man's pliers are another man's teeth!