The Graven

The Graven is the first guitar I claim as a build, however - the neck is not my carve. Early on in this hobby, after the first two kit guitar projects, I visited the foreclosure sale of a popular music shop in Aarhus, called Orkestergraven (hence the name). At this shop, where people were getting extraordinary deals on guitar equipment, I saw a guitar neck in a glass display case. It was a beautiful figured maple neck from Warmoth. I got an extraordinarily good price on it, and of course this meant that the hobby had to keep going. I reshaped the headstock, and refinished it. I then ordered a beautiful piece of wood, and designed the body shape myself, inspired by the BC Rich Mockingbird and a bass found on Reddit (credit to user Climbtrees47).

Featuring a one-piece curly Alder body, Warmoth guitar neck (figured maple, ebony fingerboard), and a single EMG 81 bridge pickup. The Graven is an extremely ergonomic shape in the classical position, and is exceptionally easy to maintain due to the flat headstock design, locking tuners, magnetic cavity cover, and top-load bridge.

Full specs list:

• • Bolt-on figured maple Warmoth neck, ebony fretboard, Tru Oil finish.
• • One-piece curly alder body finished in Tru Oil.
• • Chrome EMG 81 bridge pickup, black metal pickup ring.
• • Gotoh SD91 MG-t locking tuners.
• • Goldö HW-16 topload bridge.
• • Graph Tech TUSQ XL nut.
• • Single volume knob.