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Woodrite Electric Guitars — Custom Shop Quality, Real World Price

Steve Reis has been making heavy music under the banner of Does It Doom for years, building a devoted online following through YouTube content that put boutique guitar building in front of audiences who had never seen instruments made that way before. When his debut video featuring the Woodbine Guitars Custom Shop went viral and orders flooded in faster than a small custom operation could handle, the answer presented itself: scale the designs, preserve the quality, and bring the price down to where more players could actually afford one.

That conversation between Steve Reis and Woodbine Guitars gave birth to Woodrite Guitars in 2021. Every Woodrite guitar ships from Charlotte, North Carolina, receives an additional tech inspection and quality control check before packing, and arrives with a custom form-fitted hardshell case and a one-year limited warranty. The designs come directly from the Woodbine Custom Shop, where the same instruments sell for $4,000 and up. Woodrite makes them available for a fraction of that price, without cutting corners on the materials and components that actually affect the way a guitar sounds and plays.

Built for Heavy Music, Versatile Enough for Everything

Woodrite guitars are designed first and foremost for players who tune low, play hard, and need an instrument that can keep up. Mahogany bodies, bound necks, ebony fingerboards, stainless steel frets, TonePros hardware, and premium pickups from Lace and Woodrite's own Barbarian and Firelance humbucker lines are the foundation. The result is an instrument with the sustain, resonance, and tonal authority that heavy music demands, with enough versatility to cover surf, rock, grunge, and everything in between.

The Models

Warlord — The original Woodrite model and the one most closely associated with the brand's identity, inspired directly by the Woodbine Custom Shop Warlord that started it all. A double-cut design with the construction, tone, balance, and sustain of a traditional single cut, fitted with mahogany body and neck, maple cap, ebony fingerboard, and TonePros hardware. The Matt Pike Signature Warlord, developed in collaboration with the guitarist behind Sleep, High on Fire, and Pike vs. The Automaton, brings three USA Lace Matt Pike Firespitter humbuckers to the platform for the most ferocious version of the design yet. All Warlords ship set up in C standard.

Revelator — Born from a blend of classic single-cut influences with a sleek lower horn that gives it a silhouette entirely its own. The Revelator pairs a robust mahogany body and set neck with Woodrite Barbarian humbuckers, delivering tones that players have described as edging out their American Gibsons for heavy music. Bold, distinctive, and immediately recognizable on a stage.

Switchblade — An offset double-cut that fuses the spirit of the classic Jaguar format with the tonal character of a mahogany set-neck guitar, resulting in something that sounds like neither and better than both. Available in two configurations: the standard Switchblade with a floating tremolo, TonePros roller saddle bridge, and an unusually deep control layout featuring thumbwheel humbucker-to-single-coil blend controls and an individual on-off switch for each pickup, and the Switchblade HT hardtail with a Tune-o-matic bridge, simplified controls, and Woodrite Barbarian humbuckers set up in C standard straight from the factory.

Vagabond — The most refined model in the Woodrite lineup, pairing a mahogany body and bound neck with a Macassar ebony fingerboard and distinctive custom split anvil inlays in an aged silverburst finish that gives it the kind of personality that turns heads before you play a single note.

For Players Who Are Done Compromising

Woodrite guitars are for players who have spent years being told that a genuinely great heavy music instrument costs $3,000 or more, and have decided they're not willing to accept that anymore. The quality is real, the tone is real, and the price is a genuine disruption of what this caliber of instrument is supposed to cost.

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