Carve

The Baum Carve, a modern P90 electric guitar in a double-cut format

The Carve is built around one tonal direction. The Goldsound® Ember P90 pickups define the character of this electric guitar with P90 pickups, delivering the midrange growl, attack and amp-pushing bite that the format is known for. P90 electric guitars sit between single coil clarity and humbucker warmth, and the Carve commits fully to that middle territory rather than treating it as a compromise.

The body shape is a modern interpretation of the double-cut form factor. The same SG-style outline that has been a staple of solid body design since the early 1960s, rebuilt on Baum's platform of 36mm mahogany, roasted maple neck and Modern C profile. It is not a reissue and it is not a copy. The Carve takes the double-cut format as a starting point and asks what changes when every component is built around resonance, sustain and stability.

Why the construction matters on a P90 guitar

P90 pickups respond directly to what the guitar's body and neck are doing. A bright, resonant platform produces a bright, resonant P90 tone. A dull platform produces a dull P90 tone. There is no electronics-driven middle ground.

The Carve's mahogany body is built at 36mm rather than the 45mm industry standard, and that difference in wood thickness has direct consequences for how a P90-equipped guitar performs. Less mass between the strings and the air around the body means string vibration transfers more efficiently through the instrument, which means the Ember P90s receive a more dynamic, full-range signal at the source. The roasted maple neck adds dimensional stability across temperature and humidity changes, which matters on any modern electric guitar but matters more on a P90 platform where tonal clarity depends on the entire instrument behaving consistently.

Pickup configurations

Standard Carve models ship with Goldsound® Ember P90 pickups paired with Baum's Performer™ Tune-O-Matic and stop tailpiece. The 10th Anniversary Carve replaces the P90s with Goldsound® Royale™ humbuckers and a Levitator™ roller bridge, shifting the tonal profile toward fuller midrange, more output and a different attack characteristic for players who want the double-cut format without the P90 voicing.

The platform underneath stays consistent. Same 36mm mahogany body, same roasted maple neck, same 25.5" scale and 12" radius rosewood fretboard.

The Carve in the solid body lineup

The Carve is the P90-driven solid body in the Baum lineup. For single coil clarity and an S-type platform with Baum's Sonar pickups and TrueTone tremolo system, the Celestor covers that territory. Both models sit within the broader Baum electric guitar lineup, which spans offset, semi-hollow, solid body and S-type platforms.

45 days with the P90 voicing

P90 guitars are character instruments. They sound different at different volumes, through different amps, in different rooms. The Carve benefits from being played in your own environment before you commit to it. Baum doesn't sell through retailers, so every Carve ships direct from Denmark, set up by hand in Aarhus, and comes with a 45-day home trial.