Mark Gilbert Wolf Mail Signature Guitar

If we ask guitar players why they choose and play the guitars they do, an interesting story usually presents. While interviewing French Canadian bluesman Wolf Mail recently, this was very much in evidence. Mail plays Mark Gilbert guitars, and exclusively so. They met at one of Mail's gigs in Tasmania where Gilbert lives and the relationship developed after Mail played Gilbert's “Thylacine” theme guitar. Playing the result of their collaboration, the Wolf Mail Signature Guitar, I can speak for Gilbert's remarkable detail as a luthier. The high-end componentry includes Gotoh 510 machine heads, a gold-plated Schaller 457 bridge and a TV Jones P90 neck pickup with full copper shielding in the cavity. But it's the wood that really sells this guitar, figured Tasmanian blackwood that just sings to the feel