Relish Mary Solidbody Guitar NOS, Cream

Here’s the last of our NOS – New Old Stock – Relish Mary models, this one in cream finish, Alder core and passive pickup system.

Fairly new on the scene, Relish guitars are designed built in Switzerland, a little northwest of Lucerne. They are innovative in both design and choice of non-traditional materials and assembly methods.

This example seen here is the Relish Mary model in the a cream white finish, equipped with two standard humbucking pickups. There are other Mary models with different center cores; here Alder is used to warm the tone. The place to start, however, is what makes these guitars innovative and distinct.

While the Relish models start with a traditional bolt-on neck and body core, the design rapidly diverges from the ordinary. The maple neck is bolted to a central core – for the Mary, it’s a Alder slice – but the top and back are high pressure veneers and the fingerboard is Dark Strand Woven Bamboo. The Alder core is cut away to allow mounting of all the hardware. The assembly is very neat and tidy; there is a lot of attention to detail in these builds.

As well, the back is held on by a set of seven magnets running around the edge! It’s easy to pop the back off if you need to change a battery or a string.

These guitars are very well thought out and very well made. Relish has been able to create a new design that doesn’t really look like anything else while still having an attractive shape. But above all – they sound good!

This Relish Mary is sold with its original hard shell case.