Free UK delivery – Handcrafted Rat Bait guitar built in June 2024 from new and reclaimed parts – Full scale.
This Telecaster inspired guitar body is made from salvaged material, pieces scavenged from various places: Wood from a 1970s beech vegetable rack, Exmoor Spruce and parts of a 1990s flatpack bookcase, all assembled, constructed and shaped by hand in a rat infested shed in North Devon. This barnwood style body is routed to take a standard neck pickup and standard Telecaster bridge pickup. A handmade rustic body that has dents, scratches and is finished in beeswax.
Relic Telecaster made from Salvaged Materials
Built as a nod to 1960s / 70s Japanese Woolworths guitars but with modern hardware.
- Body made from salvaged materials
- Body routed to take a standard Tele neck pickup and standard Telecaster neck pickup
- Three way switch
- Chrome Neck Pickup – Vintage warm tone (new old stock)
- White scratchplate
- Telecaster bridge pickup – vintage tone, old school twangy
- Unused 22-fret maple neck
- 10mm Machine Heads
- Bone nut Width: 1.656 In. (42 mm)
- Scale Length: 25.5″
- Guitar strap