One Off BootLegger Guitar Absinthe Green Fairy 2025 - Custom Art California Build

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The Green Fairy 

CUSTOM SHOP USA BUILD

Absinthe Gen 2 With Fixed Bridge

Our Second Custom Shop Absinthe Build 

• Hand-painted guitar with highly detailed artwork, including the bridge and tuning controls.
• Signed Custom Shop certificate of authenticity by Chuck Wilson and artist Marianna DeSalles.
• Each piece is uniquely numbered and comes with provenance details.
• Premium finish and protective clear coat to preserve the artwork and hardware.

In the late 1800s, Absinthe was commonly referred to as “The Green Fairy.”

This is our second custom shop USA build. The first was commissioned for our Bootlegger artist Sera Fae.

Our in-house artist and extreemly talented Marianna DeSalles, painted both the first and second builds. Both are not only excellent guitars, but they are true masterpieces.

I asked Marianna to paint the Green Fairy Absinthe in the 1960s pop culture style of art, capturing the mind-altering experience that Absinthe was known for, and enjoyed by the likes of Picasso and Ernest Hemingway.

I do not get involved with Marianna; I give her my concept or thoughts, and then she goes off with it. The top side of the guitar is indeed an invitation to enjoy a French Absinthe with wormwood (not Absinthe USA). The back side perhaps your mind while drinking it. 

The Guitar

Design

I wanted to use the design of the Spade and modify it into a modern, full-body guitar.  I worked on a few initial ideas, only to end up frustrated, as the designs fell short of our standards. My builder, Ken Kim, suggested we hire a friend of his (a renowned Japanese designer) to help dial in the designs we had started. With his guidance, the Absinthe design was finalized and approved!

Pickups

We wanted to use a U.S. company for the pickups on this model, and EMG quickly jumped at the opportunity. We gave EMG the freedom to choose the pickup design with a coil split option.   While working with the Absinthe architecture, we developed our new neck with the curved block contour at the string lock.  This improvement is now the new neck for both the Spade and Absinthe models.  The design gives the player the feel of having a complete headstock while in first position, and the extra thickness creates more stability, mass, and tone.

Balance

The Absinthe Honey is a well-balanced guitar with easy access to all the high frets.  True to its name, derived from a wicked psychedelic liquor, it’s a modern, high-end consciousness-expanding guitar.

Our Bootlegger Absinthe Honey gear’s neck is best compared to a PRS JM shape, a Fender modern C shape, or a Gibson Slim Taper D shape in terms of feel and playability. It is, by far, the most recognizable shape for guitar players worldwide. It delivers that classic feel with a modern twist, keeping it relevant and functional for guitar players of any genre.

Playability

Beautiful high-polished Brazilian Jatoba fingerboard. Jatoba is about double that of rosewood’s Janka hardness number, and about four times that of maple. Jatoba produces a full sound – rich in low and mid-range frequencies, with clarity in the top end. Our Matte Spade features a Maple fingerboard.

Order yours today and experience the flexibility, tone, and true player enjoyment with the Absinthe.

Specifications of Absinthe Custom

Neck

• 24 fret
• 5-piece Canadian hard maple through-neck construction
• Mahogany stingers
• Dual-way 2-piece truss rod
• C-shape
• Side inlay dots: Black 1.5mm
• Width: 42mm at zero fret (nut)
• Thickness: 21mm at zero fret, 23mm at 12th fret
• Nut Material: Graphite White / Width: Thick 3.4mm / Length: 42mm

Fingerboard

• 25.5 scale (Fender)
• Fingerboard Radius: 13”
• Radius: 350mm R ( 13.8 inch)
• Black Ebony (exclusive Bootlegger)
• Position markers: fanned white pearl dots
• Side position marker: 1.5mm black
• Number of Frets: 24 / full fret easy access design
• Frets: DHP – 24H / 2.7 mm silver nickel

Body

• Material: 3-piece 37mm Mahogany
• Top: 5mm hard Maple
• Black aluminum knobs
• Upgraded metal plate input jack
• Neck-through construction
• Graphite nut
• Head: Taesung HL string lock

Electronics in Absinthe Honey

• EMG USA passive pickups: HSH
• Neck EMG H4A Alnico
• Middle EMG S4 Ceramic
• Bridge pickup: EMG H4 Ceramic
• Coil Split push-pull tone pot
• Volume control
• Tone control
• 5-way pickup selector slide switch

Finish    Custom

More 

• 32 x 13.5 inches
• 6.6 pounds
• Case and guitar: 13 pounds
• Absinthe case: 35 x 16 x 5
• Bootlegger Absinthe tattoo logo on the body
• Case: Bootlegger Logo Tattoo Hard Shell Case
• Strings: 009, .011, .016, .026, .036, .046
• Uses standard single ball strings
• Includes case key and related truss rod tools & tuning tools

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