VRT

• 25.125 inch scale length provides string balance and ease of play.  Highs will be a little sweeter, bends will fight less, and reaches easier than the vintage 25.5 inch length.

• VRT guitars are super light in weight with the Paulownia body selection at about 6.5 pounds.  This wood is super resonate with a percussive, sparkly well rounded influence on the tone.  Alder, Swamp Ash and other body woods are also available. 

• Roasted maple necks not only sound awesome, they are less prone to movement with climate changes.  Flame and birdseye maple can be used without fear of twisting, adding character and beauty to the instrument.  The standard neck  finish is vintage oil and wax which enhances the wood figuring and provides an amazing feel.

• The truss rod is at the heel of the neck.  Because the neck pickup is direct mounted, the pickguard can be removed without removing the strings to allow access to the truss rod with a supplied Allen wrench.   

• The standard pickups for this model are Dimarzio.  Seymour Duncan and our own pickups made on the premises with vintage spec wire and magnets are also available.   

• A fully bypassable active midboost is an option providing added versatility.  

• Hipshot locking tuners and Japanese made Gotoh locking or vintage tuners (sd-91 HAP) are used for machine heads.  

• Gotoh In-Tune bridges with Brass or Titanium saddles are standard.  Saddle adjustment screws are replaced so as not to protrude too high off the saddle for comfortable right hand muting experience. 

• Side or face fingerboard dots can be made of Luminlay material for high visibility in dark playing environments.  https://luminlay.com/productsen.html

• A tummy cut and contoured easy access neck joint are options.  

• Fretboards are cut on a CNC with incredible precision.  Fret slots follow the radius of the fingerboard to avoid a gap under the frets in the middle like would occur when a table saw jig is used.  

• A 10 inch radius or a compound 10inch to 12inch radius is available.

• Like vintage instruments, the fret tang ends are not snipped.  More to hold them in place.   Fret ends are meticulously shaped for comfort and playability.  Frets and fret ends are polished to a high shine with a buffing wheel.

• Traditional bone or Graphtech TUSQ XL nuts are shaped by hand.  String spacing is accomplished on each instrument and slots are cut as low as possible for ease of play and low action from the first fret.  Bone nuts are polished to a high shine.  

• Strings height at the 22nd fret is typically .05 inches.  

• Nitrocellulose lacquer and incredibly thin modern finishes are standard.  

• Relic finishes are an option for nitro finished guitars.  

• Hand applied gold, silver, copper, metallic black or red leaf over a base color which is sealed with a thin satin or high gloss clear.  The base coat is intentionally left visible for a natural relic appearance.  

• The R inlay can be made of mother of pearl, abalone , lumilnlay (glows in the dark to match side dots)  or any color using an acrylic plastic or resin.

• The neck and fretboard woods are chosen for tone, feel and beauty.  The edges of the fretboard are hand shaped to provide a broken-in, supremely comfortable playing experience.  

• Custom acrylic tortoise pickguards are an option and made on the premises.

$2000 base price 

Includes choice of two Tom Holmes, Dimarzio, Seymour Duncan or Rizzuto single coil pickups, roasted maple neck, choice of solid color gloss or leaf with matte finish, TUSQ xl or bone nut, Hipshot or Gotoh tuners, choice of standard Jescar fretwire ( https://jescarmusic.com/collections/fret-wire )

Options

Roasted Flame or Birdseye Neck

• $200 master grade

• $150 5A

• $100 4A

Fingerboard

• $100 Pale Moon Ebony

• $50 Cocobolo, 5A Flame or Birdseye Maple, mottled Pau Ferro, figured Ovangkol

Finish

• $100 metallic leaf with high gloss clear

• $100 nitrocellulose lacquer

• $200 nitrocellulose lacquer with light aging

• $300 nitrocellulose lacquer with extreme aging

• $100 gloss clear finish on neck and headstock

• $50 gloss clear on headstock

Body

• $150 Lightweight Alder or Swamp Ash (guitar will weigh under 7.5 pounds)

• $225 Lightweight roasted Alder or Swamp Ash

• $50 hand carved easy access neck joint

• $50 tummy cut

Electronics

• $200 Demeter Midboost with true bypass potentiometer

• $75 for each additional pickup

Plastic

• 3 ply, 4 ply and single ply pickguards traditional pickguards are standard

• $100 Tortoise acrylic (smoke, amber, orange, dark red)

Case

• $125 highly padded semi-hard gig bag

• $150 molded plastic hard case

• $250 G&G vintage black tolex case with crushed red velvet interior