Haynes SC22 Custom Guitar

This guitar is made to order and fully customisable to your spec. To discuss your build and get the latest build times, click here to visit our Contact page — we'd love to hear from you.

⚠️ Payment Terms: The price shown (£2520) is a 70% deposit required to secure your build slot. The remaining 30% (£1080) is due upon completion of your guitar, before dispatch. Full build price: £3,600.

SC22

The SC22 is the result of years of dedicated design work by Neil Haynes — a relentless pursuit to create the ultimate high-end guitar. Drawing on decades of luthiery experience, Neil set out to craft an instrument that seamlessly blends the timeless character of vintage design with the precision and performance of modern building techniques, resulting in a guitar that feels rooted in tradition yet entirely forward-thinking.

Specifications Basic Model

Body - Ribbon Mahogany
Neck - One Piece Ribbon Mahogany
Fretboard & Headstock Veneer - Rosewood
Fretboard Inlays - Custom Falling Leaves
Scale Length - 25.5"
Truss Rod - Dual Action
Fretboard Radius - 9.5" to 14" Compound
Bridge - Graphtech Wraparound
Tuners - Graphtech Locking
Pickups - Haynes Custom House Humbucker Set, P90 Set or Humbucker + P90 Set

The Sound

Every pickup on the SC22 is personally designed and hand-wound by Neil Haynes himself. Born out of years of obsessive research, hands-on experimentation, and relentless refinement, Neil's in-house P90s and Humbuckers represent the very best of his craft — each one wound to exacting standards and voiced specifically to bring out the natural character of the SC22. The result is a pickup set with real depth, warmth, and articulation that responds beautifully to every nuance of your playing. If you have a favourite pickup manufacturer whose sound you love, we are more than happy to accommodate — just get in touch and we'll build the guitar around your vision.

We fit all of our guitars with the finest electronics — CTS pots, CRL switches, Switchcraft Jacks and Oil in Paper Capacitors.

Playability

We have designed the headstock to have straight string pull as well as an 8-degree headstock angle to improve tuning stability. All of our guitars have the highest quality Jescar fretwire with each guitar having a full level, crown and polish by our Master Luthier. We have also made sure that all of our necks are as comfortable to play as possible with our custom 9.5" to 14" fretboard radius each guitar having the fretboard edges rolled by hand to make sure they are perfect.

More Ergonomic

We made some subtle and some larger changes to the shape and carves, added more comfort by increasing the radius on our arm carve and deepening our stomach carve as well as our new countered heel carve & deep front scoop for greater access to the upper frets and far more comfort when playing.

The Perfect Hardware

At Haynes, we strive to make everything we can in-house, even our metal neck plates, back plates and pickguards, which we designed to perfectly fit our shapes and then finish them in some great aged finishes, from brass to steel and copper that ages and patinas over time.

When we can't make it, we use the best hardware out there. The bridge on our SC22 is the fantastic Gotoh or Graphtech Wraparound and the tuners are high spec and reliable Graphtech locking tuners.

Colours

The SC22 is available in a hand-picked selection of classic, timeless finishes that perfectly complement its vintage-inspired character. Our standard colour options are:

Vintage Goldtop - Pelham Blue - Black - Sherwood Green

All finishes are applied in the spray shop to the highest standard, with each guitar receiving a Semi-Gloss super thin modern Nitro neck finish, allowing you to glide up and down without the neck ever getting sticky. If you have a colour in mind that isn't listed, we are more than happy to discuss custom colour options — just get in touch and we'll make it happen.

What's Included

Every Haynes guitar is supplied with a premium hard case, full case candy, and a certificate of authenticity — because an instrument of this calibre deserves to arrive in style and leave a lasting impression.