Revolt

A classic-leaning double-cut electric guitar with rock 'n' roll attitude

The Revolt is what happens when you take the most iconic double-cut electric guitar archetype of the 1950s and rebuild it without the limitations that defined that era of construction. Classic double-cut shape with rounded contours. Goldsound® Ember™ P-90 pickups delivering the warm, midrange-forward growl that made P-90 guitars legendary in classic rock and roll. A lightweight mahogany body that feels familiar in the hands and balances naturally against the strap. All of it reimagined through ten years of Baum design and refinement.

The result is a vintage style electric guitar that doesn't behave like one. The tuning holds. The neck stays stable across temperature and humidity changes. The bridge does not develop intonation problems after a year of use. What you get is the classic electric guitar identity without the classic electric guitar maintenance headaches.

Vintage style without vintage compromises

The Revolt's body shape comes from a tradition that goes back to the late 1950s, when the double-cut format first appeared as an alternative to single-cut design. That shape still works because it makes upper-fret access easier without compromising the resonance of a solid mahogany body. Baum kept the geometry close to the classic proportions because there was no good reason to change it.

What did need changing is the construction underneath. The Revolt is built on the same Baum platform that defines the rest of the lineup. Lightweight mahogany at a thinner profile than the standard slabs of the 1950s era. Roasted maple neck that has been heat-treated to remove the moisture instability that affected vintage instruments. Modern C neck profile that feels closer to a contemporary player's expectations than the chunky carves of the period. A 12" radius rosewood fretboard that supports modern bending technique without the flat-radius limitations of vintage geometry.

Each of those decisions preserves the visual and tonal identity of the classic double-cut while quietly fixing the things that made vintage instruments frustrating to actually own and play.

The P-90 attitude

Goldsound® Ember™ P-90 pickups are what make the Revolt sound the way it does. P-90s sit in the tonal territory between single coil clarity and humbucker warmth, which is the place rock 'n' roll guitar tone has lived since the format was invented. Strong midrange. Punchy attack. Enough output to push a clean amp into overdrive with just the volume knob. Enough clarity that chord work stays defined when you do.

The Ember P-90s are voiced for the classic rock guitar territory specifically. Not the bright, clean P-90 sound of jazz or country playing. Not the smooth, refined P-90 sound of modern boutique builds. The Revolt's pickups have grit and forwardness, and they reward players who use their volume and tone knobs as instruments rather than set-and-forget switches. Roll back the volume and the tone cleans up without losing midrange character. Push the bridge pickup into a cranked amp and the tone gets aggressive in a way humbuckers cannot quite match.

This is rock and roll guitar tone in the practical sense. The format that built the genre, rebuilt to actually work for the players who still play it.

Solid body P-90 or semi-hollow humbucker

Standard Revolt variants ship with the Goldsound® Ember™ P-90 configuration on a solid mahogany body. That is the core Revolt voicing, and it is what defines the model.

Select Revolt configurations move in a different direction. Semi-hollow construction replaces the solid body, adding chambered resonance and air to the tone. Humbucker pickups replace the P-90s, smoothing out the high-end response and adding output. The result is a louder, fuller and more harmonically complex variant of the Revolt, while keeping the same double-cut platform underneath.

Two different voicings on the same body architecture, for players who want either the unfiltered classic P-90 experience or the warmer, semi-hollow extension of it.

Revolt or Carve

Both the Revolt and the Carve are double-cut Baum electric guitars with Goldsound® Ember™ P-90 pickups, but they occupy different positions in the lineup. The Carve is the modern SG-style interpretation of the double-cut format, with sharper, more angular body geometry and a raw, mid-forward tonal directness designed for contemporary playing. The Revolt is the classic-leaning interpretation, with rounded vintage-derived body contours and a tonal character built around classic rock attitude.

Players who want the P-90 voicing in a modern, aggressive package gravitate toward the Carve. Players who want the same voicing in a classic double-cut guitar with vintage style and rock 'n' roll energy gravitate toward the Revolt. Both sit within the broader Baum electric guitar lineup, which spans offset, semi-hollow, solid body and S-type platforms.

45 days with the classic-leaning Baum

The Revolt is a guitar with a specific identity. Vintage in its visual and tonal references. Modern in its construction reliability. Some players will know within minutes that this is the Baum guitar they want. Others will need to live with it through a few rehearsals and a recording session to understand what classic double-cut P-90 attitude means in practice. Baum doesn't sell through retailers, so every Revolt ships direct from Denmark, set up by hand in Aarhus, with 45 days to play it in your own environments before deciding.