Wormhole
Canadian alder with a quilted maple top and carved sides. The most extreme Nemesis: made for low tunings, where a note has to stay a note even when the string is slack.
- Rosso corsa
- Assenzio
- Abisso
- Notturno
- Brace
- Naturale
- Fucsia
- Grafite
- Marea
- Cobalto
- Ombra
11 finishes available — and this is not a closed list
What sets it apart
Pickups wound in the workshop
They are De Gattis, built one at a time. Not a part ordered from a catalogue and fitted: the piece that decides the sound is the piece we make, and on a seven-string in a low tuning it is what separates a note from a noise.
Canadian alder, quilted maple top
Alder is the light wood par excellence, full in the mids and clean underneath: on a seven-string in a low tuning it is what keeps the note apart from the noise. Above it, quilted maple adds the stiffness alder lacks — and the figure you can see.
Roasted maple, neck and fretboard
One piece, with no separate fretboard glued on. Roasting drives the remaining moisture out of the wood: the neck moves far less with changes in climate, and the sound stays drier and tighter down low.
The whole of it
Wormhole, headstock to bridge.
Photographs of Wormhole
Specifications
What is settled, and what you settle.
It is the model
They do not change: they are what makes this a Wormhole.
- Scale length
- 648 mm25.5 inches
- Fretboard radius
- 16″
- Neck width, six strings
- 43 mm at the nut · 57.2 mm at the last fret1.69 · 2.25 inches
- Neck width, seven strings
- 48 mm at the nut · 66 mm at the last fret1.89 · 2.60 inches
- Body
- Canadian alder
- Frets
- 24, stainless steel
- Pickups
- De GattisWound in the workshop, one at a time
- Pots
- 500 kΩ
- Truss rod
- Dual action, with two carbon fibre rodsThe rods can be left out on request
- Body finish
- Translucent polyurethane
- Fretboard finish
- Satin polyurethane
- Case
- ABS hard caseIncluded
- Certificate of authenticity
- Numbered, dated and signed by handIncluded
You choose
Every line here is a conversation, not a drop-down.
- Number of strings
- 6 · 7
- Top
- Quilted maple
- Neck and fretboard
- Roasted curly maple · Wenge · Ebony
- Pickup brand
- De Gattis · other brands on requestDe Gattis are standard because we wind them ourselves; another brand gets fitted for anyone arriving with something specific in mind
- Headstock
- 6 in line · 6 in line, reverse · 4 + 2 · 4 + 2, reverse · 3 + 3 · SlottedOn seven strings the shapes are 4 + 3 and 3 + 4 reverse
- Tuners
- Gotoh · Schaller · Hipshot
- Bridge
- Fixed · Gotoh · Schaller
- Fret markers
- Mother of pearl · Abalone · Luminlay
- Neck joint
- Bolt-on · Set neck
The switch
What it sounds like, in every position.
As standard
Neck
Neck + bridge
Bridge
Hear it
A seven-string Wormhole in a low tuning, where it belongs: this is where the choices on this page stop being lines in a spec sheet.
And now
Carry on building it.
The green lines above are yours to decide. In the Custom Shop you pick them one by one, and at the end it is the luthier who writes back, not a form.