UK Guitar: Relic Guitars and Guitar Salvage

This is a slightly offset Stratocaster with a past Built from salvaged timber and the remains of a broken Strat-style body, it was carved, cursed, and coaxed back to life in a rat-infested shed somewhere in North Devon. Every contour carries the marks of hand tools, stubbornness, and the ghosts of guitars that refused to die. The shape nods to those wonderfully oddball ‘Woolworths’ catalogue guitars of the 60s and 70s — Japanese budget beauties with more character than they had any right to possess. This is a retro homage with a Rat Bait twist: imperfect, unapologetic, and absolutely alive. Rat Bait Guitars is a defiant celebration of imperfection, rebellion, and resurrection Born in a rat-infested shed on the edge of Exmoor in North Devon, each guitar is hand-built from salvaged wood and broken, discarded guitar bodies, carrying the scars and stories of their past lives. The f...