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Larrivee Baker-T Classic Electric Guitar - Charcoal Frost Metallic

Solidbody Electric Guitar with Ash Body, Maple Neck, Rosewood Fingerboard, and 2 Single-coil Pickups - Charcoal Frost Metallic

American T-style Prowess at a Great Price

For decades, Larrivee has built acoustic guitars made for “affordable luxury.” But what about electrics? It turns out, they’ve been making them for decades, too! The Baker-T is the brainchild of Matt Larrivee, Jean Larrivee’s son and company heir. Matt is a self-described T-style guitar nut and has tweaked the company’s flagship electric Baker-T to perfection. The Baker-T is American-made, vintage-inspired, and built with love. A 1-piece ash body, a smooth rock maple neck, and a rosewood fingerboard offer the traditional look and feel of a T-style guitar, but just below the surface we’ve found tons of subtle upgrades and hardware selections that aren’t instantly visible to the naked eye. The Baker-T’s single-coil pickups are custom voiced with Alnico V and boutique Alnico VI magnets and coils hand-wound by Matt Larrivee himself. Other notable touches include ergonomic body contours, tone-boosting stainless steel screw inserts, Gotoh tuners with carbon fiber C-A-R-D mounts, and compensated brass saddles. While subtle, these differences make a big tonal difference when it’s time to plug in and turn up! If you’re chasing down a top-notch T-style electric that’s made in America, then the Larrivee Baker-T from Sweetwater absolutely deserves your consideration!

Custom T-style pickups wound by hand

The Baker-T’s single-coil pickups are boutique through and through. Each pickup is treated to hand-wound coils and inspection approval from Matt Larrivee himself. In the bridge position, you’ll find a mighty potted Alnico V single-coil with hot tone and great response — ideal for twangy leads and beefy rhythm work. The bridge position features a rare selection: a potted Alnico VI pickup. The Alnico VI recipe is close to Alnico V, but with boosted nickel content in the magnet that pulls in the character of Alnico II. The result is a powerful neck pickup that enhances modern materials with a flavorful hint of vintage T-style guitars and their Alnico II pickups from the ’50s. To tie it all together, Larrivee adds premium support electronics: top-notch potentiometers from Bourns Pro Audio; vintage paper-in-oil capacitors (prized for their tendency to better with age); and traditional volume, tone, and 3-way selector controls for nailing a full range of T-style sounds in style.

Obsessive hardware and design

The original T-style guitar got a lot of things right, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for improvement! The Baker-T subtly enhances each aspect of the original design for big improvements in tone, sustain, stability, and playability. Onboard is all the typical hardware you’d expect from a boutique American-made guitar, including a bone nut, closed-back tuners, and compensated brass saddles; but things get more interesting when you add in the Baker-T’s stainless steel screw inserts. Compared to typical hardware-mounting methods (drilling straight into wood, glue, etc.), these stainless steel inserts form a tighter bond between the hardware and the guitar. The result is a noticeable bump in sustain and response as well as more reliable performance over the years. The only hardware that doesn’t mount to these inserts are the vintage-style Gotoh tuning machines; instead, these tuners feature Gotoh C-A-R-D carbon fiber mounts that improve the action of your tuning machines while also keeping strings centered and aligned, even if a tuning peg gets bent out of shape from a gnarly fall or bump onstage. What’s more, look closely at the front and back of a Baker-T body and you’ll notice contoured forearm and belly curves. Whether you pick up the Baker-T for two minutes or two hours, these curves streamline the typical slab-style T-body for a luxurious playing experience worthy of the Larrivee name.

Enchanté Larrivee

Founded in 1967 in Canada, Larrivee honed their vision and craft among the sitka spruce forests of Vancouver. Eventually, the company moved not overseas but to California, where Larrivee still crafts guitars that emphasize fine tonewoods and premium aesthetics at player-friendly prices. The company’s acoustic guitars are the stuff of legend, but Larrivee has also spent decades making fine electric guitars in small artisan batches. With hand-wound pickups and innovative hardware, Larrivee brings their meticulous build philosophy to the electric world with instruments that offer “affordable luxury” to Sweetwater customers like you. The brand’s reliance on sustainable woods and appreciation for our forestry's natural beauty let players like you responsibly add pieces of nature to your life in the form of a guitar.

Larrivee Baker-T Classic Electric Guitar Features:

Traditional 1-piece ash body for a classic blend of rich resonance and strong sustain
Forearm and belly contour carves add extra comfort compared to the original T-style shape
Natural rock maple neck with comfortable “Slim C” profile and hand-rubbed satin finish
Smooth rosewood fingerboard with 21 frets, MOP dot inlays, and a 9.5–14-inch radius
Custom tone-boosting hardware including a Larrivee stainless steel bridge, bone nut, and compensated brass saddles
Hand-wound potted alnico pickups paired with premium pots and capacitors yield a familiar but boutique take on single-coil T-tone
All screws (except tuner mounts) attach to stainless steel inserts, not directly into wood — yielding a tighter bond between hardware and wood for more durability, sustain, and response
Vintage-style Gotoh SDS-510 tuners with C-A-R-D mounts made from carbon fiber composite resin (improves tuner action, sustain, and string alignment)
Designed by Matt Larrivee and built in the USA

Specification	Detail
Number of Strings	6
Left-/Right-handed	Right-handed
Body Type	Solidbody
Body Shape	Baker-T Classic
Body Material	Ash
Body Finish	Gloss
Color	Charcoal Frost Metallic
Neck Material	Rock Maple
Neck Shape	Slim C
Neck Joint	Bolt-on
Radius	9.5"-14" compound
Fingerboard Material	Rosewood
Fingerboard Inlay	Mother-of-Pearl Dots
Number of Frets	21, Medium, Nickel SIlver
Scale Length	25.5"
Nut Width	1.6875"
Nut Material	Bone
Bridge/Tailpiece	Vintage-style Ashtray with Compensated Brass Saddles
Tuners	Gotoh SDS-510
Neck Pickup	Larivee Custom Alnico 6 Single-coil
Bridge Pickup	Larivee Yarned Wrapped Alnico 5 Single-coil
Controls	1 x volume, 1 x tone
Switching	3-way blade pickup switch
Strings	D'Addario, .010-.046
Case/Gig Bag	Hardshell Case

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