Superior quality, performance and precision out of the box.
The first Riven release — the beginner model that starts the fire. A straightforward, precision-built first guitar made to play right from day one, held to the same standard as every Riven. Below it, the Riven Bolt follows as the premium model: beginner-friendly but gig-ready, with every upgrade chosen by you at checkout. Every build starts as a fresh slate, then is fully defined by the builder — no part, including the base kit, is locked in before that definition.
Riven Spark: the first Riven release — preliminary price $479. Below it, the premium Riven Bolt follows at $799 base, with upgrades chosen at checkout.
Precision-built Riven standard
Every Riven ships with its certificate of authenticity and final spec sheet.
The Difference Your Hand Can Feel
If you’ve played production guitars — including expensive ones — your hand already knows what the spec sheet doesn’t say. A saddle screw standing proud of the bridge, waiting to catch your palm. Fingerboard edges a brochure calls “rolled” and your fingers call sharp. A fret sitting a fraction high, buzzing under a bend. Those aren’t failures of price. They’re failures of time: on a production line, the minutes a hand check takes are engineered out, because minutes multiplied by thousands of guitars is money.
Riven is built at a bench, one guitar at a time, where those minutes are still affordable — so every Riven gets them:
Graduated saddle screws, fitted flush — shorter on the E saddles, following the board’s radius, so nothing stands proud to catch your palm.
Fingerboard edges rolled by hand, worked by compression until they feel played-in, not just labeled rolled.
Frets leveled, crowned, and polished — then proven under string tension before the guitar ships.
Saddles delivered at the middle of their travel, with adjustment room left both ways, so the setup can be moved to your taste.
Spec sheets describe a guitar. Your hand grades it. We build for the hand.
The lineup.
Two models, one standard. The Riven Spark leads as the first Riven release — the beginner model and the entry point to the line. Below it, the Riven Bolt sits as the premium model: a precision-built guitar with clear upgrade choices and a boutique feel at a working-player price. Each build starts as a fresh slate and is then fully defined by the builder — the base kit is an option just like the others, not a locked assignment. This lineup is a living document: certain options may not work out in testing, and the choices may narrow down over time as the builds teach what works best.
Leading model · First release · Riven Spark
$479Preliminary price · Ready to play
The beginner model that starts the fire.
The Spark comes first — the first Riven release and the entry point to the line, the spark that starts the fire. Built to perfection at a budget: perfection-level results through technique and the right parts rather than expensive gear — as close to perfection as possible, mostly labor. A solid basswood body with a maple neck and rosewood fretboard, Alnico 5 single-coils in an SSS configuration, and a handful of chosen budget upgrades where they count most — so the money goes to the parts, and the standard never drops.
Playability is the product here, too. Every Spark gets the same precision and attention to detail as every Riven: frets leveled, crowned, and polished, a precision setup with action and intonation dialed in, and a full check-over before it ships — a straightforward first guitar made to play right from day one, so a new player’s first chords catch and hold.
Solid basswood body · maple neck and rosewood fretboard
Signature finish — thin satin nitrocellulose, body and neck · satin only
25.5-inch scale · 21 medium jumbo frets
12-inch fretboard radius
Alnico 5 single-coil pickups — SSS configuration
Wilkinson vintage-style tremolo bridge — steel saddles, set up stable for a new player
Graph Tech TUSQ XL nut
Switchcraft output jack
Locking tuners
Frets leveled, crowned, and polished
Precision setup — action and intonation dialed in
Light 9–42 strings — ready to play out of the box
Beginner’s Guide, certificate of authenticity, and final spec sheet included
One clear preliminary price — $479 — for the Spark starting from the specification shown here. That specification is a starting point, not a lock: the base kit is an option just like the others, and each build is fully defined by the builder.
Released after the Spark, the Bolt is the premium step-up model. Built around playability out of the box: a solid swamp ash body, maple neck and fingerboard with a 12-inch radius, Alnico 5 pickups with vintage cloth wire and vintage-style controls, a Wilkinson trem, and 15:1 die-cast tuners — strung with light 9–42 strings for an easy feel that still holds up on stage. Beginner-friendly but gig-ready.
Solid swamp ash body · maple neck and fingerboard
Signature finish — thin satin nitrocellulose, body and neck · full-gloss nitro step-up available
12-inch fingerboard radius
Alnico 5 pickups · vintage cloth wire
Light 9–42 strings — ready to play out of the box
Beginner’s Guide included with the sale
Certificate of authenticity and final spec sheet included
One clear base price — $799 — plus the Bolt upgrade options you choose at checkout: Volt, Surge, and Full packages, or individual upgrades à la carte. Upgrade options are available on the Riven Bolt.
Locking tuners, a steel trem block, and a CTS / Switchcraft / Oak Grigsby electronics refresh — the gigging spec. Floating or decked trem, your choice at checkout.
Locking tuners
Steel trem block
CTS/Switchcraft/Oak Grigsby refresh
Surge package · $256.50
Available on the Riven Bolt at checkout
Vintage voice
Everything in the Volt package, plus a Tonerider vintage-voiced pickup set. Staggered locking posts, no string tree.
Everything in the Volt package
Tonerider vintage-voiced pickup set
Staggered locking posts, no string tree
Full package · $526.50
Available on the Riven Bolt at checkout
The complete upgrade
Everything in the Surge package, plus professional paint — solid or metallic.
Everything in the Surge package
Professional paint, solid or metallic
The full set of upgrades
Bolt upgrade options, à la carte.
Every upgrade below is an option on the Riven Bolt, also available on its own at checkout — combine freely with any Bolt package. Prices are installed and fixed at checkout.
Electronics
Loaded pickguards & wiring
920D Texas Vintage loaded pickguard +$286.99
920D Custom SSS loaded pickguard +$155.99
Fender Tex-Mex loaded pickguard +$209.99
Seymour Duncan Classic loaded pickguard +$363
CTS / Switchcraft / Oak Grigsby refresh +$70
Treble bleed mod +$15
Custom wiring (coil split, series/parallel) +$50
Hardware
Tuners, trem & locks
Locking tuners +$45
Steel trem block +$40
Strap locks +$20
Gotoh GE101T bridge +$75
Gotoh GE101TS bridge +$100
Wilkinson VT100 bridge +$125
Gotoh 510T-SF2 bridge — the bent-steel-saddle 510 option +$150
Gotoh 510TS-FE1 bridge — steel block with solid steel block saddles — the premium Gotoh 510 +$225
Signature finish — thin satin nitrocellulose, body and neck, included in the base price
Solid color +$60
Professional paint — solid or metallic +$300
Professional paint — sunburst or fade +$550
Professional paint — full-gloss nitrocellulose, solid — step-up +$450 (provisional)
Professional paint — full-gloss nitrocellulose, sunburst — step-up +$700 (provisional)
Professional paint — matte/satin +$300
Relic/aged finish — on request, not selectable at checkout
Neck
Neck & frets
Fender-licensed replacement neck +$220
Stainless steel refret +$250
Case & extras
Carry & priority
Premium gig bag +$40
Hardshell case +$90
Rush build +$150
The standard.
Playability is the product. Every Riven starts as a fresh slate and is fully defined by the builder into a written spec — the spec you approve at checkout decides the final instrument.
01
Playability first
How it plays is the product — a neck and action that feel settled from the first chord.
02
Precision-built
Every Bolt is built to its own builder-defined written spec — the fresh-slate definition agreed for that guitar.
03
Checked & documented
Each guitar is checked against its spec before it ships, and arrives with its certificate of authenticity and final spec sheet.
04
Yours at checkout
On the Riven Bolt, finish and upgrades are your choices at checkout — a package or à la carte — so the guitar that arrives is the one you specified.
No upgrade by reflex. If a part does not solve a defined need, it stays off the invoice.
Technique before price tag.
What the money should buy.
Not a label. Not a pile of upgrades. The goal is an instrument that feels settled, responds predictably, and arrives with its work documented — the precision advantage is in how the finished guitar plays, not in a longer spec sheet.
Neck & feel
A maple neck and 12-inch radius fingerboard with rolled fingerboard edges — standard on every Riven.
Playability
Light 9–42 strings and an easy, settled feel that suits new players and holds up for experienced ones.
Electronics
Alnico 5 pickups with vintage cloth wire, and component choices tied to your brief.
Documentation
Every guitar ships with its certificate of authenticity and a final spec sheet of its as-built configuration.
Signature finish
Thin satin nitrocellulose lacquer on body and neck — the Riven signature finish, with a satin neck feel. On the Bolt, full-gloss nitrocellulose is the step-up.
Signature neck plate
Every Riven guitar ships with a custom laser-engraved, Strat-style four-bolt neck plate bearing the Riven Guitars logo.
Come prepared, leave with a clear plan
Start with how you play.
The Riven Bolt is already fully specified. If you want more than the base guitar, use this short brief to clarify which upgrades you want at checkout.
What is the Riven Spark?
The Spark is the leading Riven model and the first Riven release — the beginner model that starts the fire and the entry point to the line, at a preliminary price of $479. It starts from this starting specification — each build starts as a fresh slate and is fully defined by the builder: a solid basswood body, maple neck and rosewood fretboard with a 25.5-inch scale, 21 medium jumbo frets, and a 12-inch radius, Alnico 5 single-coils in SSS configuration, a Wilkinson vintage-style tremolo bridge, a Graph Tech TUSQ XL nut, a Switchcraft output jack, and locking tuners — with frets leveled, crowned, and polished and a precision setup, strung with light 9–42 strings and ready to play out of the box. Every Spark is finished in the Riven signature finish — thin satin nitrocellulose lacquer on body and neck, satin only. It ships with the Riven Beginner’s Guide, a certificate of authenticity, and its final spec sheet. Below it, the premium Riven Bolt follows at $799, with the upgrade options.
What comes with the $799 Riven Bolt?
A precision-built, gig-ready guitar: a solid swamp ash body, maple neck and fingerboard with a 12-inch radius, Alnico 5 pickups with vintage cloth wire and vintage-style controls, a Wilkinson trem, and 15:1 die-cast tuners, strung with light 9–42 strings. Every Bolt is finished in the Riven signature finish — thin satin nitrocellulose lacquer on body and neck, with a satin neck feel; full-gloss nitrocellulose is the step-up. It ships with the Riven Beginner’s Guide, a certificate of authenticity, and its final spec sheet. Upgrades are chosen at checkout: Volt, Surge, and Full packages plus individual upgrades.
What upgrade packages are available on the Riven Bolt?
Three packages for the Riven Bolt, chosen at checkout: Volt $139.50 (locking tuners, steel trem block, and a CTS / Switchcraft / Oak Grigsby electronics refresh), Surge $256.50 (everything in Volt plus a Tonerider vintage-voiced pickup set), and Full $526.50 (everything in Surge plus professional paint, solid or metallic). Each package price is the sum of its à la carte items, less a 10% bundle discount. Individual upgrades are also available à la carte on the Bolt.
Can a Riven Bolt be tailored to a specific playing style?
Yes — that is what upgrades are for. Tuning, feel, bridge type, pickup response, controls, and budget shape your build brief at checkout, through packages or individual upgrades.
How is the finished guitar documented?
Each guitar ships with a certificate of authenticity and a final spec sheet recording its model, serial number, and as-built configuration — the paperwork that goes in the case with the guitar.
What makes a Riven Bolt more exact?
Precision is the product. Every Bolt starts as a fresh slate, is fully defined by the builder into its written spec, checked against that spec before it ships, and documented on its final spec sheet — so the guitar that arrives is the one you specified at checkout, with nothing left to chance.
Rivenware.
Every Riven runs on Rivenware — the suite of apps behind the bench, each with a job and a name to match. This website is The Storefront, the public face of the suite. The rest work behind it, carrying every guitar from build file to final spec sheet — and keeping the shop, and the household, in order.
At the bench
Build Guide
The Forge
The gated build workflow for the Bolt, the Spark, and personal builds — every step, check, and sign-off in sequence.
Build Tracker
The Walkthrough
Walks a production build through the Build Guide gates, step by step, until it is ready to seal.
Riven Prototype Tracker
The Proving Ground
Where the Riven prototypes are put through the wringer — extended proving and play-testing before they set the standard.
Personal Guitar Prototype Tracker
The Test Bed
The personal prototype build — the learning build where techniques and finishes are tried first, on the builder’s own guitar.
Finishing Guide
The Paint Booth
Every finish system and option, the materials estimator, and the Finish Specification that loads into the Build Guide.
Professional Relic Guide
The Relic Lab
Hand-aging done with restraint — paint, plastics, and hardware aged the professional way.
Strat Tech Guide
String Theory
The deep technical reference for Strat-style setup and repair — the bench’s book of answers.
Bench Tools
The Tool Wall
Every tool the bench needs — what’s on hand, what to buy, and the options specified for each.
Parts & Supplies
The Parts Bin
Parts and supplies — what the bench holds, what a build calls for, and what needs reordering.
DIY Guitar Build Guide · Ebook
The Build Book
The build method as a book — the complete DIY guitar build guide, from kit to finished instrument.
Vintage Build Guide
Vintage Strat Specifier
Era-correct vintage builds — model-year presets from 1954 to 1971, full vintage spec sheets, and era-authenticity flags on every choice.
Running the shop
Website
You are here
The Storefront
This site — the public face of Riven Guitars: the Spark and the Bolt, their brochures, and every option.
Pinned documents
Riven Guitars Beginner's Guide.docx
Build Database
The Build Ledger
The record of every build — Bolt, Spark, and Personal — where build files are created, sealed, and turned into final spec sheets.
Pricing Reference
The Price Book
Every price, package, and upgrade ladder — the numbers a quote is built from.
Company User Manual
The Playbook
How Riven runs — the company manual for standards, policies, and day-to-day decisions.
Operations Manual
The Back Office
The operations side of the shop — the routines and records that keep the business moving.
Pre-Launch Checklist
The Countdown
Launch readiness, item by item — everything that has to be true before Riven opens its doors.
Service Records
The Ticket Book
Guitar tech service work — setups, fret levels, and repairs, logged from intake to done.
Riven Standard Sticker
The Badge
The Precision-Built Riven Standard badge — the mark that goes on a finished Riven.
Marketing
The Amplifier
Riven’s marketing — the pitch, the channels, and the message that carries the bench standard out to players.
Build-Video Production
The Studio
The build-video series — planning, filming, and tracking every video, with the Build-Video Plan as its guide.
Weekly Shop Scheduler
The Daybook
The week at a glance — bench services, builds, business tasks, and video work scheduled day to day; the companion planner to The Back Office.
Beyond the bench
Budgeting
The Bottom Line
The money, plainly — budgets and bills for the household and the business.
Personal Inventory
The Gear Vault
The personal collection — guitars and gear, cataloged piece by piece.
Blood Sugar Monitor
Sweet Spot
Blood sugar readings and carb logging, kept in one clear record.
Riven Guitars · Custom electric guitars · Orlando, Florida
Superior quality, performance and precision out of the box.
The Spark comes first — the first Riven release and the entry point to the line, the spark that starts the fire. Built to perfection at a budget: perfection-level results through technique and the right parts rather than expensive gear — as close to perfection as possible, mostly labor. Playability is the product here, too: every Spark gets the same precision and attention to detail as every Riven, so a new player’s first chords catch and hold.
Finished by hand — checked where it counts
Production guitars — even expensive ones — are built to a spec sheet, and the hand checks are the first thing a production line cuts: saddle screws left standing proud of the saddle tops where they catch your palm, fingerboard edges “rolled” in name only, frets never leveled. Every Spark gets those checks as standard: graduated saddle screws fitted flush (shorter on the E saddles, following the board’s radius), fingerboard edges rolled by hand until they feel played-in, frets leveled, crowned, polished and proven, and saddles delivered at mid-travel with room left to adjust both ways. It’s the difference your hand notices in the first minute.
$479Preliminary price · Ready to play
One clear preliminary price for the Spark starting from the specification below — a straightforward first guitar made to play right from day one, held to the same bench standard as every Riven. Each build starts as a fresh slate and is fully defined by the builder.
Detailed specifications
The Spark’s starting specification — the current reference build. Every measurement and part below describes that build; each production build starts as a fresh slate and is fully defined by the builder, then checked over in full before it leaves the bench.
Body
Solid basswood body
Neck
Maple neck
Fretboard
Rosewood fretboard
Scale length
25.5-inch scale
Frets
21 medium jumbo frets
Fretboard radius
12-inch radius
Pickups
Alnico 5 single-coil pickups — SSS configuration
Bridge
Wilkinson vintage-style tremolo bridge — steel saddles, set up stable for a new player
Nut
Graph Tech TUSQ XL nut
Output jack
Switchcraft output jack
Tuners
Locking tuners
Fretwork
Frets leveled, crowned, and polished
Setup
Precision setup — action and intonation dialed in
Strings
Light 9–42 strings — ready to play out of the box
Finish
Signature finish — thin satin nitrocellulose lacquer, body and neck, satin neck feel · satin only
Included
Riven Beginner’s Guide, certificate of authenticity, and final spec sheet included
Built to the Riven standard
The budget goes to the parts; the standard never drops. A handful of chosen upgrades sit where they count most — the nut, the jack, the tuners, the tremolo — and the rest of the value is labor: fretwork finished by hand, a precision setup, and a full check-over against this specification before the guitar ships, documented on its final spec sheet. Every Spark carries the Riven signature finish — thin satin nitrocellulose lacquer on body and neck, satin only.
Options
A starting specification — not a locked one
The Spark starts from the specification listed above, at its preliminary price of $479. The base kit is an option just like the others — nothing is assigned or locked before the builder defines the build, and each build starts as a fresh slate. This is a living document: certain options may not work out, and the choices may narrow down over time. The full upgrade menu lives on the Riven Bolt — when you are ready to choose finishes, packages, and upgrades at checkout, read the Bolt brochure — specs & options.
Superior quality, performance and precision out of the box.
Released after the Spark, the Bolt is the premium step-up model — everything a player needs, nothing they don’t. Built around playability out of the box and beginner-friendly but gig-ready, with every upgrade option in the Riven line chosen by you at checkout: the Volt, Surge, and Full packages, or individual upgrades à la carte.
Finished by hand — checked where it counts
Production guitars — even expensive ones — are built to a spec sheet, and the hand checks are the first thing a production line cuts: saddle screws left standing proud of the saddle tops where they catch your palm, fingerboard edges “rolled” in name only, frets never leveled. Every Bolt gets those checks as standard: graduated saddle screws fitted flush (shorter on the E saddles, following the board’s radius), fingerboard edges rolled by hand until they feel played-in, frets leveled, crowned, polished and proven, and saddles delivered at mid-travel with room left to adjust both ways. It’s the difference your hand notices in the first minute.
$799Base price · Ready to play
One clear base price — $799 — plus the Bolt upgrade options you choose at checkout. Package and à la carte prices below are installed and fixed at checkout.
Detailed specifications
The Bolt’s starting base specification, before any options are added — each build starts as a fresh slate and is fully defined by the builder into its own written spec, checked against that spec before it ships, and documented on its final spec sheet. The base kit is an option just like the others, not a locked assignment.
Signature finish — thin satin nitrocellulose lacquer, body and neck, satin neck feel. Full-gloss nitrocellulose available as a step-up.
Neck plate
Custom laser-engraved, Strat-style four-bolt neck plate bearing the Riven Guitars logo
Included
Riven Beginner’s Guide, certificate of authenticity, and final spec sheet included
Upgrade packages
Three packages for the Riven Bolt, chosen at checkout. Each package price is the sum of its à la carte items, less a 10% bundle discount. Packages combine freely with individual upgrades.
Volt package · $139.50
Gig-ready reliability
Locking tuners, a steel trem block, and a CTS / Switchcraft / Oak Grigsby electronics refresh — the gigging spec. Floating or decked trem, your choice at checkout.
Locking tuners
Steel trem block
CTS/Switchcraft/Oak Grigsby refresh
Surge package · $256.50
Vintage voice
Everything in the Volt package, plus a Tonerider vintage-voiced pickup set. Staggered locking posts, no string tree.
Everything in the Volt package
Tonerider vintage-voiced pickup set
Staggered locking posts, no string tree
Full package · $526.50
The complete upgrade
Everything in the Surge package, plus professional paint — solid or metallic.
Everything in the Surge package
Professional paint, solid or metallic
The full set of upgrades
Options, à la carte
Every upgrade below is an option on the Riven Bolt, also available on its own at checkout — combine freely with any Bolt package. Prices are installed and fixed at checkout. This menu is a living document: certain options may not work out in testing, and the choices may narrow down over time.
Electronics
Loaded pickguards & wiring
920D Texas Vintage loaded pickguard+$286.99
920D Custom SSS loaded pickguard+$155.99
Fender Tex-Mex loaded pickguard+$209.99
Seymour Duncan Classic loaded pickguard+$363
CTS / Switchcraft / Oak Grigsby refresh+$70
Treble bleed mod+$15
Custom wiring (coil split, series/parallel)+$50
Hardware
Tuners, trem, bridges & locks
Locking tuners+$45
Steel trem block+$40
Strap locks+$20
Gotoh GE101T bridge+$75
Gotoh GE101TS bridge+$100
Wilkinson VT100 bridge+$125
Gotoh 510T-SF2 bridge — the bent-steel-saddle 510 option+$150
Gotoh 510TS-FE1 bridge — steel block with solid steel block saddles — the premium Gotoh 510+$225
Pickups
Pickup sets
GFS pickup set+$70
Tonerider vintage-voiced set+$130
Seymour Duncan set+$260
Fender Custom Shop set+$300
Finish
Colors & paint
Signature finish — thin satin nitrocellulose, body and neckIncluded
Solid color+$60
Professional paint — solid or metallic+$300
Professional paint — sunburst or fade+$550
Professional paint — full-gloss nitrocellulose, solid — step-up (provisional)+$450
Professional paint — full-gloss nitrocellulose, sunburst — step-up (provisional)+$700
Professional paint — matte/satin+$300
Relic/aged finishOn request
Base colors: Emberburst, Ivory Coast, Forge Black, Molten Garnet, Bayou Blue, Static Blue, Gulfstream Green, Powder Sky, Conch Blush, Kiln Red, natural/clear. Every Bolt is finished in the Riven signature finish — thin satin nitrocellulose lacquer on body and neck — included in the base price; full-gloss nitrocellulose is the step-up. Relic/aged finish — on request, not selectable at checkout.
Neck
Neck & frets
Fender-licensed replacement neck+$220
Stainless steel refret+$250
Case & extras
Carry & priority
Premium gig bag+$40
Hardshell case+$90
Rush build+$150
No upgrade by reflex
If a part does not solve a defined need, it stays off the invoice. Tuning, feel, bridge type, pickup response, controls, and budget shape your build brief at checkout — through a package or individual upgrades — so the guitar that arrives is the one you specified.
Superior quality, performance and precision out of the box.
Riven Guitars is a small one-bench shop in Mobile, Alabama, building precision electric guitars — built and run by Tim Nelson. One bench, one standard: every guitar is built, checked, and documented by hand before it leaves the shop, so the instrument that arrives is exactly the one you specified.
Two models, one standard
The line is built for beginner-to-intermediate players: beginner-friendly but gig-ready, with playability as the product at every price.
Riven Spark · $479 preliminary · First release
The beginner model
The first Riven release and the entry point to the line — the spark that starts the fire. A straightforward first guitar starting from the specification in its brochure, made to play right from day one — each build starts as a fresh slate and is fully defined by the builder. Read the Spark brochure
Riven Bolt · $799 · Premium model
The premium step-up
The flagship model, released after the Spark — beginner-friendly but gig-ready, with the full range of upgrade options chosen by you at checkout: Volt, Surge, and Full packages, or individual upgrades à la carte. Read the Bolt brochure
How we build
Build to perfection at a budget. Perfection-level results come through technique and the right parts rather than expensive gear — as close to perfection as possible, mostly labor. The money goes to the parts that matter, and the standard never drops.
Playability is the product
How the guitar plays is the product — a neck and action that feel settled from the first chord, for a new player’s first chords and a working player’s set alike.
Precision on every guitar
Precision and attention to detail on every build: fretwork finished by hand, a precision setup with action and intonation dialed in, and a full check-over against its written specification before it ships.
Documented, every time
Every Riven ships with its certificate of authenticity and its final specification sheet — the as-built record of the guitar, in the case with it.
No upgrade by reflex
If a part does not solve a defined need, it stays off the invoice. Upgrades exist to serve the player, not to lengthen a spec sheet.
Run on Rivenware
Behind the bench sits Rivenware — the suite of apps that runs the shop, each named for its job: The Forge builds, The Build Ledger keeps the record, The Paint Booth finishes, and The Price Book prices. This website is The Storefront, the suite’s public face. Meet the whole suite
The bench: guitar tech services
Alongside the builds, Riven Guitar Tech Services offers professional setup and repair, specializing in Strat-style guitars — the same bench, the same standard, for the guitar you already own.
Basic setup · $60
Basic
A professional basic setup to get your Strat-style guitar playing clean and settled.
Deluxe setup · $85
Deluxe
The full setup treatment — the deeper pass over feel, action, and playability.
Fret Level + Setup · $150
Fret Level + Setup
Frets leveled, crowned, and polished, followed by a full precision setup — for worn frets and uneven play.
Questions or a repair?
Tell us about the guitar and what it needs on the Contact Us page — bench work starts with the same conversation as a build.
Superior quality, performance and precision out of the box.
Get in touch about a guitar order or bench work. Riven Guitars is a small one-bench shop in Mobile, Alabama — whether you are ordering a Spark or a Bolt, choosing Bolt upgrade options, or booking a setup or repair for a Strat-style guitar, it all starts with one conversation.
Riven Guitars · Mobile, Alabama
Reach the bench
Phone: [phone]
Email: [email]
Business phone and email are being finalized and will be published here — check back, or reach us through the shop once the details go live.
What to include in your message
A few details up front get you a clear, useful answer — and a clear price — the first time.
Your nameWho you are, and the best way to reach you.
Guitar or serviceFor an order: the Riven Spark ($479 preliminary) or the Riven Bolt ($799), and any Bolt upgrade options you are considering. For bench work: the guitar you have and the service — Basic setup ($60), Deluxe setup ($85), or Fret Level + Setup ($150).
What you needHow you play, what the guitar is doing — or not doing — and anything else that matters: tuning, feel, finish direction, or a working budget.
Before you write
The model brochures carry the full specifications and every Bolt option with its price — most questions about what a Riven is, and what it costs, are answered there.
Spark brochure
The beginner model’s starting specification at its $479 preliminary price. Read the Spark brochure
Bolt brochure
The premium model’s full specification at $799, with the complete options menu — packages and à la carte. Read the Bolt brochure