Cabronita means "little devil" or "little bastard" in Spanish. It can refer to a style of Telecaster guitar that looks much like a Tele but also isn't much like a Tele in many of its appointments (a la, the devil is in the details...). While it may be hard to believe, the back is a single piece of Magnolia.

A cabronita should be somewhat befuddling (at least to the Tele purist) while also being delightful in its differences. What?! No Tele bridge pickup? Oh, wait, is that a TV Jones humbucker set? (Yeah, yes it is!) That bridge? It's a 12 string bridge -- the standard strings are through body and the octave strings backload. All you need is a 12 string neck... Our Parakeet styled Cabronita should delight guitar enthusiasts of any preference.

PLEASE NOTE: These images will be updated with full page refersh. The front now has light cream colored pickup rings and gold speed knobs -- that go to 11. ;-) Just another Cabronita surprise... And the rear has a walnut cavity cover instead of the canary wood.

NOW AVAILABLE! $795 with a nice gig bag.  Shipping CAN be arranged for this item.

I like to infuse meaning into a build, make a great guitar, but also say a little something. Call attention to something that matters and maybe do a little good.

I love our Lowcountry birds! When I learned that there used to be a Lowcountry or Carolina Parakeet (now extinct), and that these beautiful little critters used to flit about the magnolia trees across the land, I was a little bummed. So I built them a line of guitars (eh, do what you can). With each Parakeet I sell, $50 from the price will be donated to a Lowcountry wildlife preservation organization.

The top is Canary wood to represent the parakeet we lost and the back is Magnolia, harvested here in the Lowcountry to represent something prehistoric from the Lowcountry that still endures.

The Cabronita is already available and this double cut LP style will be ready in May 2025, priced around $700. It has the coolest, sleekest wraparound bridge I've found so far (Gotoh) with matching black chrome tuners.

I want you to love your guitar. That's why I put so much effort into the fretwork and setup. It should feel amazing. I want you to be able to play things you couldn't before.

But it's music, so it has to sound great, too. I can put $200 pickups in every guitar, but then I have to pass all of that cost on to you (and maybe they are not quite the pickups you really wanted). The sonically-fun-for-both-of-us answer is to make the pickups. The point is to bring you that $200 sound for much less. 

The first Tele-style set in production is in Unapologetically Violet and the next one will be in the still unannounced Lowcountry Prowler, an LP Jr. Double Cut style guitar. It will be a coil splittable dogear bridge P90 to give you a nice, sweet single coil sound or that overwound single coil growl.

For now, they are only available in our guitars.