Rat Bait guitar built in June 2024 from new and reclaimed parts. Full scale. Free UK delivery.
This Nashville Telecaster inspired guitar body is made from a Mahogany side table (probably English Mahogany), pieces of scavenged wood from various places, a slice of Exmoor Spruce and a bit of Oak from a 1940s dining table, all assembled, constructed and shaped by hand in a rat infested shed in North Devon.
Unloaded body weight = 2kg (weight without neck, pickups, bridge etc.)
This Barnwood Nashville style body is routed to take a standard neck pickup, single coil middle pickup and standard Telecaster bridge pickup. A handmade body that has dents and scratches in places – finished in beeswax, giving it a warm colour.
- Body made from salvaged timber
- Body routed to take a standard Tele neck and bridge pickup and a middle single coil pickup
- Three way switch
- Neck Pickup – Vintage warm tone
- Middle single coil pickup. This gives an extra tone boost and acts as a second bridge pickup, cleaner and clearer
- Tortoiseshell scratchplate
- Black Telecaster bridge pickup – vintage tone
- 22-fret maple neck (reclaimed from a new guitar)
New 10mm Machine Heads
Nut Width: 1.656 In. (42 mm)
Scale Length: 25.5″
Reused and reshaped, these discarded bits of timber gems have been given a new life. This timber has been upcycled, repurposed and recycled.