Handcrafted Guitars
Astèla is a company founded in 2017, based in Norrköping, Sweden, that designs and builds custom electric guitars.
Astèla is an occitan word meaning "wood chip".
Showcase
Here comes a showcase of some of my realisations. If something catches your eye and you are interested in ordering an electric guitar, feel free to drop me a line at martin.raspaud@astela.xyz so we can discuss further.
A walnut and cherry fretless p-bass, finished with shellac for the smoothest effect. Pribora pickups, one tone and volume control. Abalone neck dots in a shooting stars pattern.
Birch plywood telecaster with custom sandwich construction, cherry neck. Smooth finish with shellac, low string action, abalone side dots. The sandwich construction makes the guitar very light while still remaining perfectly balanced. Vanson PAF-style humbuckers, one volume, one tone, with push pull pots for coil tapping and series/parallel switching.
Chambered ash Jaguar-style bass, beech neck and maple fretboard. Finish with hardwax oil for a very smooth satin finish. Seymour-Duncan SPB-1 in the neck, NYC-4 humbucker in the bridge with selectable parallel/split/series mode. One volume button for each pickup, one very usable tone.