The new Spade Alchemy is designed to embolden the modern guitarist and inspire creativity. The pickup arrangement is a hybrid HSH that gives you many tonal options. We use our matched high gain Bootlegger 98 humbuckers with a single-coil in the middle position. The two humbuckers feature Coil Splitting (not coil taping).

Coil Splitting is a way to add another dimension of tone to your Spade, you can essentially double your tone. You can use this to “cut through” in a mix or in your band. You can use different combinations of the 3 pickups to develop your own unique sound. Coil Splitting splits a humbucker into a single-coil pickup. When you split two humbuckers you have a pair of single coils.

With our hybrid HSH set with the coil-split on you have three single-coil pickups. A humbucker that is split will not sound the same as a standard single-coil, so this adds a unique tone to your guitar. It cuts bass or beefiness and increases high-end. With the coil-split on and the volume increased playing through a good (our Blues 20, 30 or 50 tubeAmps ) amp, you can get that Zeppelin sharp high gain tone.

The new Spade is a full 25.5 scale 24 fret set neck performance guitar. At 5 pounds It is well suited for the traveling pro or the traveling enthusiast. All highest quality South Korean hardware and uses standard single ball strings. Our new Monorail bridge floating saddle isolates each saddle/string so that it vibrates optimally, not allowing unwanted vibration.

Introducing our new Bootlegger single string lock system. This lock along with our floating saddle monorail tuner greatly reduces unwanted string vibrations. Also it is easy to replace one lock if necessary.

We use only the highest quality woods, three-piece maple neck-through construction body, swamp ash body wings, and beautiful high polished Brazilian Rosewood fretboard. (Maple neck on the Matte Spade)

Comes with OHSC hard case ready for the road or overhead plane compartment. The Ace 4 string bass and Spade are designed by Bootlegger Guitar and in the tradition of Bootlegger Guitar USA.

We utilize high-quality hardware and pickups from BHK Industries in South Korea. Our focus is on designing and crafting professional-grade guitars and tube amps.

With satisfied customers worldwide, our instruments have found homes in the hands of musicians across the globe.