On our most recent edition of Quality Control, we take a look at the Raptor 6 from Polish custom guitar makers Skervesen Guitars! While Skervesen’s specialty is in making custom axes, this Raptor 6 is an excellent example of the quality of their work across the board and features some amazing specs like:
- Headstock: Viper (w/ ebony veneer)
- Scale length: 25.5″
- Body wood: 1-piece black limba (thickness: 32mm)
- Top wood: poplar burl (thickness: 6mm, not veneer)
- Finish: satin
- 5-piece neck: wenge sides and center, purpleheart fillets
- Fingerboard: ebony
- Number of frets: 24
- Inlay: “Z” pattern 3mm Abalone dots
- Pickups: Bare Knuckle Pickups Juggernaut set, wooden bobbins (walnut +birdseye maple)
- Electronics layout: World Domination Mod
- Hardware color: black
- Bridge: Hipshot fixed
- Tuners: Hipshot Open-Gear, locking
- Straplocks: Jim Dunlop Guitar Products
- Graph Tech Guitar Labs Black TUSQ nut
- Hipshot O-ring knob
- Luminlay side dots
- Jescar Enterprises stainless steel frets (fret wire no. 57110)
- MEC electronic components
- Copper Shielded Cavities
- Hand-made wooden cavities’ covers
- Compound radius 14″ – 16″
And in case you want to see more Skervesen X Gear Gods content, be sure to watch our series where Trey orders his very own custom Skervesen guitar from start to finish. You can watch Part 1 here, and Part 2 here.
