$12,000 PayPal plus shipping to US only.
Visually stunning, the sound is magnificent either picked or fingerstyle with powerful yet balanced bass, creamy warm mids, and sparkling trebles with a little gnarly reverby color.
The mahogany neck has a substantial C-profile (very comfortable to me) and the Franklin signature curved volute is elegant. I believe the headstock veneer, tuner buttons and rosette center ring are snakewood. The double-arrow backstrip and binding are ebony with top w/b/w/b and side white purfling. The short-dot fretboard pattern is five small slotted squares of abalone. Tuners are gold-plated Waverlys and nut and saddle are mammoth ivory. No end pin is installed. The ivory-dot bridge pins should be installed with the groove away from the string as the bridge plate is slotted.
The Hoffee carbon flight case is custom-fit to the guitar and features a ramped headstock support, large storage compartment and includes key and shoulder strap. A 5/32" Bondhus long Allen wrench is provided for neck relief adjustment (through a long hole accessed from top of the headstock). Light strings are recommended by Nick and new EXP-16s are currently loaded.
I am the second owner of this guitar and sent it to Nick in summer 2015 at one year old to polish the top, notch the bridge plate, install a pick guard and give it a super set-up. The condition is such that many stores could sell it as new with perhaps four pencil-point shallow indents in the top and one 3mm shallow linear mark, none through the finish (photos available). There is insignificant fret wear under the B and high-E strings in the first few frets. The case when I received it had some compression crazing in the clear matrix in several places and I asked Jim Hoffee to restore it like-new. Hoffee cases offer peerless protection for the precious instrument within but as you may know show exterior bumps and scratches with exaggeration.
Please PM me for a full set of pictures and I would also be happy to give you a live FaceTime tour of the guitar and sound demonstration.
I pack professionally and ship overnight in the continental US. I accept PayPal and do not offer demos or returns unless the instrument and condition are other-than-described, with arbitration by PayPal. I believe Nick Kukich and his Franklin Guitars are consistently and uniformly among the finest pre-War style OMs made today, and this one is an exemplar of his artisanship.