Bootlegger Unveils New Spade 24-Fret Travel Guitar

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New model boasts three-piece hard maple body and neck-through construction.

Bootlegger has unveiled the Spade, a 25.5-inch scale, five-pound, 24-fret travel guitar.

The Spade boasts a three-piece hard maple body and hard swamp ash wood body wings. There’s also a maple neck, Brazilian Cherry Jatoba fingerboard and neck-through construction. The guitar features a Honey Natural polyurethane finish.

Pickups are two Alnico Humbucker S Korea Bootleggers, with controls for volume and tone, and a three-way toggle switch. There’s also a Monorail bridge that isolates each saddle/string so that it vibrates optimally.

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The Spade comes with an OHSC hard case that is ideal for road or plane traveling.

The Spade is available for $549. 

For more information or to purchase, head over to Bootlegger.

Richard Bienstock
Richard Bienstock

Rich is the co-author of the best-selling Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion. He is also a recording and performing musician, and a former editor of Guitar World magazine and executive editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine. He has authored several additional books, among them Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, the companion to the documentary of the same name.