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 Utiliphone electric guitar
                                                                                                   SOLD                                                   
                            Tony Cochran Guitars Custom #72                        

In 1946 Master Electronics Lab technician and Indianapolis resident, Ryan Doepker, was one angry dude. Sick of tinkering with the "Squawk Box" his boss had saddled him with, he wanted more time to pursue his dream of "electric enhanced Jazz." He had seen an amplified guitar during his Gibson factory Kalamazoo tour and felt he could do better. His mule for this experiment was misplaced after his untimely death from aluminum poisoning in 1947. The guitar did not surface again until it was pulled, miraculously unscathed, from the wreckage of a downed Convair CV-240 in Gillsburg, Mississippi in 1977. The aircraft rated case had even kept the Master Utiliphone Sonic-Domed bridge chamber intact. I traded an old Harley servicar frame for it in 1992. I think I made out like a bandit.

Specifications

Design Elements:

     - Textured Aluminum, ULI Pickup Device, Utiliphone Sonic-Domed bridge chamber    

Body

     - Body shape: Single cutaway
     - Body type: Solid body
     - Body material: Solid wood 
     - Body wood: Basswood
     - Orientation: Right handed

Neck

     - Neck shape: D-shaped profile
     - Neck wood: Mahogany
     - Joint: Bolt-on
     - Scale length: 24.75 in.
     - Truss rod: Standard
     - Neck finish: Satin

Fretboard

     - Material: Rosewood
     - Radius: 12 in.
     - Fret size: Medium
     - Number of frets: 21
     - Inlays: Dot
     - Nut width: 1 11/16 in.

Pickups

     - Configuration: HH
     - Neck: 650R 
     - Bridge: 700T

Controls

     - Control layout: Master volume, tone
     - Pickup switch: 3-way toggle

Hardware

     - Bridge type: Intonated, one-piece wrap around
     - Tuning machines: 14:1 diecast uncovered
     - Strings: New Ernie Ball