Built to Outlast

Boutique electric guitars and effects, designed with intention and built with obsession. Each Artifact is built to last lifetimes.

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Roasted Maple Necks Bolt-Through™ Neck Joint Custom Artifact Pickups Fossilized Mammoth Nuts Carbon Fiber Reinforcement Patent Pending Designs Handbuilt in the usa torrefied woods
Bolt-Through™ Neck Joint Custom Artifact Pickups Fossilized Mammoth Nut Carbon Fiber Reinforcement Patent Pending Designs Handbuilt in the usa

Premium Tonewoods

Thermally modified and hand-selected for optimum resonance and coupling. Black Swamp Ash, Linden, Maple and Sinker Redwood tops. Every wood chosen for how it sounds.

Patent-Pending Innovation

The Bolt-Through™ neck joint and original bridge design solve real musical problems. Modern engineering that feels immediately familiar.

Custom Pickups

Designed specifically for Artifact instruments and wound to match the material composition of each instrument in the series.

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$3,999

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The Artifact

Standard Series

Influenced by the Selmer-Maccaferri instruments of the 1930s, the Artifact sits comfortably against the player's body in any playing position.

Neck Roasted Quartersawn Maple w/ Carbon Fiber Reinforcement

Fretboard Wenge or Macassar Ebony

Body Roasted Linden and Maple

Nut Fossilized Mammoth

Pickups Custom Artifact

Joint Bolt-Through™ (Patent Pending)

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Craftsmanship Details

Roasted Neck · Scarf Joint

Original Bridge · Fresh Off the Mill

Bolt-Through™ Heel · Patent Pending

Siberian Mammoth Nut

About Artifact

In a world of disposable products, we build instruments that endure. They should outlive the people who play them.

Aryeh East · Founder & Luthier

Over 20 years of building, modifying, and restoring electric stringed instruments and effects. Every Artifact comes out of that experience.

Our Story

Restoration & Service

Bring your instrument back to life.

Expert restoration, modification, and setup services for any electric instrument. The same obsessive attention to detail applied to every build, applied to yours.

Restoration Services

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Your instrument.
Our obsession.

Every Artifact can be commissioned to your specifications. Choose your woods, finishes, and hardware, and we'll handle everything else.

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