This model is built of polished nickel-plated brass, and then sand-etched with dramatic Hawaiian scenes of bucolic enchantment. One of the most beautiful guitars in the National stable of exceptional replica metal bodies, this one is etched with the island, the canoeist, the volcano (can’t not have the volcano), the clouds, the sun, the sparkle of the sun off of the gentle waves. I’m fully hypnotized by it, and you will be too. It’s neck is fashioned from hard rock maple, its headstock is slotted, its fingerboard is ebony & its hard shell case is black Tolex covered.