"The SVL Supernatural was inspired by the beautiful Slab board Fender Telecasters that I have been so lucky to look after, service and play over the years.

I set out to build a lightweight ash bodied guitar with rosewood fingerboard on an early 60’s profile neck.

I wanted it to have a real earthy bite in the bridge setting but still retaining a classic Tele tone, the neck pickup setting has an almost ‘semi acoustic’ quality
about it.

Specs:

• Quarter sawn flame maple neck, 63 profile
• Lightweight one piece ash body
• Dark Rosewood fingerboard with clay dots
• 6105 Dunlop fretwire
• Vintage bone top-nut
• Aged Montreux White, super thin nitro-cellulose
• Aged neck colour also in super thin nitro-cellulose
• Aged Callaham bridge and Tuners
• Vintage style CTS pots with CRL Switch
• Custom Wound Supernatural pickups 
• Paper in Oil capacitor
• Switchcraft socket
• Single ply scratchplate with 8 screws
• 10-46 Curt Mangan strings fitted
• Weight: 7 lb 3 oz

SVL Guitars is now based in the leafy countryside of Hampshire, a small operation (Just Me) based on great customer service and a quest for the perfect guitar with the perfect tone.

Simon Law set up SVL Guitars after having worked as a professional guitar repairman and amp tech for over 16 years. He became more disappointed with the so called ‘custom shop’ and ‘boutique’ guitars he was working on day to day..

“They all seemed too hung up on looking the part and being very pretty than actually playing well and sounding incredible, from all my years of working on prized vintage guitars, the one thing that set them apart was their outstanding tone and feel, a really great guitar should inspire the player and even help evoke one’s individuality”

“I took the inspiration from these great vintage instruments and I hope an SVL guitar gives the player the same tangible feel and great tone”

Each guitar is built one at a time from the very ?nest sustainable tone woods, every guitar is sprayed from the wood up with ultra thin coats of nitro cellulose, this helps the wood to breath and remain very resonant, absolutely no poly ?nish is used on the guitars at all, the necks are ?nished the same way, and then treated to a proprietary ?nishing process to give them a beautiful played in feel.

“My ?nishes are so lovely and thin and they will age fairly quickly anyway giving a much more natural graceful age to the guitar, I will ‘de-shine’ the hardware if required.

Only the very best hardware and custom wound pickups are used, electronics come from CTS, CRL, Sprague, Mallory and Switchcraft, all of my pots are very closely matched with a 3% or less tolerance.

Top nuts are cut by hand from  vintage bone, I personally feel this is an overlooked part of the guitar by most manufacturers and custom shops, a well made hand cut top nut made from bone should last for a lifetime and should promote the very best in tone from the instrument."