A ground-up custom designed for Chris Couzens of Belfast doom titans Slomatics. Nicknamed ‘The Doomcaster’, this utilitarian T-type was built to Chris’ exacting requirements, in order to handle the unorthodox setup required for Slomatics’ fuzz-laden downtuned riffs. The guitar is tuned low to high: F#, F#, B, E G#, B, and so it was decided that a slightly longer ‘Selmer Jazz’ scale length (670mm/26.38in) paired with an Evertune bridge would improve tuning stability and intonation on the massive 75 flatwound bottom string. In order to ensure that the guitar still fit into a standard telecaster flight case, the extended scale was achieved by shifting the Evertune bridge further down the body of the guitar, and sacrificing the 21st and 22nd frets. A set of gold-plated Gotoh 510 tuners (modified to handle the bottom string) hold the fort at the headstock end.

Chris doesn’t use a bridge pickup, and so we opted for a single neck-position Bare Knuckle Nailbomb, set with a fairly significant gap to the strings. In keeping with the function-first ethos of this instrument, anything beyond a single 300k CTS volume pot was deemed surplus to requirement.

A walnut, flame maple and wenge neck/core is flanked by black limba body wings, double bound in flame maple, and finished with a gloss nitro lacquer. A blackwood fretboard is furnished with EVO Gold frets and Luminlay side dots. A Space Invader inlay on the electronics cover adds another personal touch, and a control knob of significant importance has earned the Doomcaster a second nickname - ‘Trigger’s Broom’.