Pheo Carne Bovina

The Carne Bovina body is mainly swamp ash from two early fifties Fender lap steels. The top cap is a ringing piece of douglas fir, over one hundred years old. Neck is maple with rosewood cap, 25" scale, thin c profile, 12" radius with a very deep tenon. Neck pickup is a Rio Grande Tall Boy. Bridge pickup is a fifties Gibson P 90.

About Phil Sylvester
"My last twenty five years have been spent as a fine art painter, drawer, and sculptor. What I have learned from 20th Century master artists, Giacometti, Cezanne, Matisse, Johns, and others, is an economy of technique, doing what is necessary to get the job done, nothing more, nothing less. The work of these great artists is about expression above all, and all gratuitous craft is rigorously paired away. Most fine guitar making is obsessive about craft perfection. Mine is not. I strive to build instruments that sound exceptional, play beautifully, and are extremely interesting to look at. The instruments aren't gratuitously tidy or perfectionistic or consistent. I tear them apart and rebuild them until I find them exciting. Perfect guitars are great, but there are plenty of those. I'm searching for something more raw, more direct." - Phil Sylvester