Building on the global success of our Crossroads range of instruments, our design team have created a whole new range of guitars, inspired by the cosmetics of 1940/50's era US instruments with the class-leading constructional signature of Michael Sanden and the Tanglewood artisanal team.
Every Blackbird model is carefully braced to provide a tight bottom-end bass note and clear rich high-spectrum resonance.
Each model is bound in vintage ivory ABS materials to provide the look of Bakelite from the ’40s, and though this won’t affect the sound, it certainly helps give provenance to the historic look our design team wished to capture, and to our mind, they have done a wonderful job.
SHAPE: Slope Shoulder Dreadnought
TOP: Hand-Selected Mahogany
BACK: Mahogany
SIDES: Mahogany
FINGERBOARD: Techwood
BRIDGE: Techwood
STRINGS: Bronze Light
ELECTRONICS: Tanglewood Premium Plus
FINISH: Smokestack Black Satin