Thinline body design with extensive custom options

The Transit
The most variable guitar made by Solstice, the Transit model has options that span an array of aesthetics & specs to bring you a uniquely traditional yet modern electric guitar, customized to your preferences. The body shape features ergonomic contouring at the heel, plus an arm bevel and back carve. The neck joint is a precisely aligned machine-bolt system with threaded brass inserts embedded into the neck itself. A modern 2-way adjustable truss rod is reinforced with twin graphite rods. The standard body design is "fully-semi-hollow" giving added resonance and an open voice. Available in four color options, Natural Light (pictured,) Lucent Blue, Lucent Red, and Night Glass black.
Standard Specs:
Scale Length: 25.25"
Body Wood: Swamp Ash
Body Finish: Nitrocellulose Lacquer
Neck Finish: TruOil hand-buffed varnish
Hardware: Gotoh tuners & bridges
Case: Foam-core hardshell included
"The Transit was born from my search for the perfect T-style guitar. I designed it to be highly versatile, and completely variable. We have yet to explore all the available configurations. The options & choices are nearly endless." -R. Elewaut
See below for complete options & specifications
Base Price
$2,650
Specs & Options
- Nut Width: 1-5/8" or 1-11/16"
- Neck Wood: Maple or Oregon Hard Cypress
- Fingerboard: Ebony or Maple
- Neck Reinforcement: 2-way/double-action truss rod, twin graphite rods
- Fingerboard Radius: 9.5" or 12" (subtle compound)
- Inlay: 12-fret emblem with offset shell dots, standard side markers, upgraded pearl side markers, (other custom options available.)
- Nut Material: Bone, Graphite, or upgraded fossilized walrus ivory
- Neck Shape: Modern Slim or Vintage Thicky
- Tuners: Gotoh 510 Delta Series, nickel, black, upgrade to gold or locking with tremolo
- Body Wood: light weight swamp ash
- Body Configuration: standard soundhole fully chambered, chambered no hole, or solid body
- Colors: Natural Light, Lucent Red, Lucent Blue, Night Glass Black
- Pickguard: Black (bwb), Cream (wbw), Parchment (wbw)
- Saddles: KTS Titanium upgrades, or Gotoh standard plated brass
- Bridge: Gotoh Standard Humbucker T-Style bridge, Vintage Slim Style, Bigsby with Roller Bridge, or Modern Tremolo S-Style
- Bridge Pickup: Seymour Duncan P-Rail with 3-way switching (cream or black)
- Neck Pickup: Duncan Phat Cat P-90, or Pro Shop "Five-Two" tele by Duncan
Production is limited. Check the build schedule below to reserve your model.
Design Your Own


Custom Quote
Build Your Transit
All available options & upgrades are listed in the form to the right. Many options are included in the base price. Certain features and upgrades have additional charges where indicated.
Body Options: We also offer the Transit as a solid body or chambered without the sound hole.
Neck Choices: choose your nut width, neck profile, fingerboard radius, and wood preferences. Maple fingerboards get finished with a poly clear-coat to protect the playing surface.
Upgrade Options: enhance the tone and aesthetics of your Transit with these specific menu items.
Pickups Choices: stock pickups for the Transit are a Seymour Duncan P-Rail in the bridge position, and for the neck it's your choice of either a Phat Cat P-90 or a Five-Two for Tele, also by Duncan.
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Recently I was debating whether or not to continue using #carbonfiber reinforcement bars... which I’ve been doing for a while in addition to the two way truss rod. I’m convinced after this last batch of necks that they also provide a tonal #enhancement, or at least a differential. Which I think is very #positive. Not to mention the stability... after my necks settle and get an initial adjustment, they are of the most stable necks I’ve seen. Anyway, I’m sticking with the plan for now!
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#carbonfiber #tone support rods and truss rod installed on a couple Transit necks. Help me choose. What do you think, black or blond? ...
This is #Grenadillo, or Mexican #Rosewood, or #Macacauba. It’s a #beautiful looking and rosewood-like #hardwood. It’s not a true #dalbergia but look at that amazing spalted sapwood! I believe this is the more rare Platymiscium pleiostachyum, the best of the Grenadillos, also the most #endangered. This #varietal of Grenadillo is also called Hormigo.
I don’t feel too concerned about the endangerment of this species. Furniture makers and industrial harvesters use wood in a way that instrument makers never could or would (wood?, sorry bad joke.) But anyway, a full single tree would last a lifetime of guitar building for me and a dozen other independent builders. This is the kind of #woodworking that these trees should be used for. Meaning, there is still plenty of wood, even #endangered wood, if it is reserved for the artists and kept away from the #industrialist operations.
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Setting up a new process for cutting my acoustic #neck #joints
A new process for me anyway... I’ll show you more as this comes along. #Excited for this #improvement with our #process.
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Only #hideglue for all acoustic top braces, back braces and bridge joint. #solsticeguitars
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Sharing some things with you I didn’t get to last year...
This was Opus no. 4... she was #brazilian
This guitar led to the current body design for my Ecliptic model. It’s my favorite binding combo... curly mahogany and/or koa are #fine looking. #maple side #purfling
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Here’s a better look at Opus no. 3
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Here’s a look at Opus #2 which is this sister to #opus #3. Both of these guitars served as the launching pad for my acoustic #designs and #pursuits. I always meant to keep this one. But you know how that goes...
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