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June BYO Course
- Another First For Bailey
First thru neck
bass in 5 days!
Also the first
time we have had a bass, 6 string, archtop
and acoustic all at the same time.
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Nearly there Dave! |
Kenny Gluing the top plate |
Ray's
from 'Bareknuckle Pickups' guitar
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Neil
with finished product |
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| Dave
returns once again to get some more
done on his archtop. This pic was
taken at the start of the five day
course. During this time He managed
to bind the body with Koa and complete
the dovetail neck joint. He will return
at the end of July to finish the rest
of the woodwork. |
Kenny
got his course place for a birthday
present...not bad eh? He has opted
to make a parlour style acoustic
with rosewood back and sides. Here
you can see him ready to join his
cedar top plate. By the end of the
five days he had bent his side,
installed his rosette and braced
his top amongst many other things.
He will be back on the next two
day course. |
Ray
works at Bareknuckle
pickups and is
one of the best pickup makers in the
country. It was an honour to have
him on our course and as you can see
he made a particularly nice blues
machine. Of course he wound his own
pickups for the guitar and brought
them with him. This makes him the
only Bailey builder so far to have
done this. Nice one Ray! |
In
five days Neil built this 4 string
thru body bass from scratch. The
bass has a spalted maple cap, EMG
pickups and preamp combined with
a 'Ghost' acoustic bridge system.
This entailed many long hours in
the workshop mostly working till
11pm or later to get the job done.
Actually Neil stayed an extra morning
to make some final set up adjustments
as there was just not enough time
on the last day. You can see by
his face that he likes it and it
certainly sounded amazing. |
London IMS Elixir
Stand - Jade
Gallagher Joins Us
Bailey guitars
used to demo Elixir
strings at the London International
Music Show. Jade Gallagher goes for a
'B1'.
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Bailey Guitars on the Elixir stand! |
Some Dude |
Jade
Tries out a Bailey |
More
Jade |
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We
decided against going to the show
this year and are putting the money
into helping to acheive our solar
powered workshop instead. Thankfully
Bruce from Elixir asked if he could
borrow a couple of guitars for their
stand.Of course we said yes! We
think Elixir are the best strings
in the world so it's great to be
asked by them.
Cheers Bruce!! |
Here's
a dude trying out our 'B1'. We had
a lot of good feedback about the
Bailey's at the show. It was fantastic
to be able to have a presence there
without actually having to go. This
was made possible by a good friend
of ours John Lockett who transported
and collected the instruments for
us.
Cheers John! |
Jade
Gallagher is
a very up and coming singer songwriter
and a great guitar player. She was
booked to demo at the Elixir stand.
In between sets she tried our 'B1'
and became instantly attached to
it. She loved the way it played
and sounded so much that she got
her manager to contact us about
it........After several phone calls
..we made a deal.
Cheers Jade & Guy ! |
Jade is now formally part of the
Bailey Guitar Experience extended
family, and we are really proud
to welcome her. There are already
a few women out there using a Bailey
but one more is only a bonus epecially
when it's someone with Jade's calibre.She
is planning to extend her current
acoustic set to include some electric
tracks... Check
her out. We
think we'll all be seeing alot more
of her.. |
Early June Split
Course - Rock Radio's Rebecca
Bailey guitars
teamed up with Elixir
strings and
Rock Radio
as part of their 'Rocktober' promotion.
The winner designs and builds their dream
guitar. This is the first half of the
course.
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Everyone hard at work |
Binding
a maccaferri |
Tony
Carves his neck |
Rebeccas
dad turns up to check progress. |
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to right: Scot, Tony, Rebecca and
Brian. This was a very short extra
2 day course. We had to put on some
extra dates because the course is
so popular - We are now fully booked
for 2008. Rebecca is our Rock
Radio competition
winner. Actually her dad won but decided
he would give the prize to his daughter.
Nice man.... |
Scot
is about half way through his maccaferri.
Binding is tricky and takes a long
time and a lot of patience. The
result will be worth it. Brian is
making a wild 6 string explorer
inspired rock machine.
More on Scot and Brian's guitar
in the near future! |
A
lot of people are a bit nervous about
carving their first neck - it's really
not a problem. Mark demonstrates how
this is acheived by carving facets
then rounding them off and blending
them in to get the perfect neck shape.
You can choose how thin or chunky
you want to make it. Tony was amazed
at the results of his labours. |
We
were all on our best behaviour when
David turned up. I think really
he wanted to do the course himself
but there was only one place. He
came to help choose the wood and
design at the start then had to
go back to work.
This course will be continued in
July.
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Other News....
We are currently
working toward making Bailey's the first
guitar workshop to use only power generated
by ourselves.
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Solar Kettle |
Bill's
Windmill |
Chickens
- one dead. |
Bailey
stand at the Minishant Fete |
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Mark
had a spare 10 mins recently and
built this out of scrap. It's an
old satellite dish covered with
reflective mylar supplied by Duffy
after a clearout of his shed. On
a sunny day it will boil water in
about 10 mins! Put the kettle on
then...........
We are currently trying to aquire
a 1.2kw solartracking pv array......
watch this space........ |
This is the 3rd windmill to emerge
from the workshop. It's only 4ft and
put out about 100w in a good wind.
We will be using it along with some
solar panels at the Wickerman festival
(end of July) to help generate enough
power to build a guitar on site. We
are currently working on windmill
no.4 which will be up to 1kw and should
supply a good percentage of the workshop
power.
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Unfortunately
we are now down to 3 chickens after
one popped its clogs during the
last course.
It just keeled over. We reckon
it was old age.
Farewell Wilma you will be remembered.
No we didn't eat it.
(Carol was quite upset but Dot,
Freda & Wanda carried on eating...
ah well..)
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Our
nearest village is Minishant. Here
we are doing our bit.You can see the
N0.3 windmill on top of Jamie's Van.
and we displayed our guitars. No building
this time but we used the wind power
for an out- door amp to test the guitars.Mark
and Carol played some songs on the
stage, and Carol ran a "Minishant's
Got Talent'' stage for budding perfomers.
Big Ta to all that helped ..congrats
to Bill, Duffy & Billy for managing
to escape to the pub ! |
May BYO Course
Patrick and Mike
are the only brothers we have had on the
course which made for all sorts of jolly
japes. Dave making an archtop and Paul
a 'double cut' made up the full compliment
with Scott popping in for a few days to
work on his maccaferri.
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Work in progress..... |
Pad
and Mike carve their necks |
Paul
sets his intonation |
Finished! |
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to right....Dave, Mark,Patrick, Mike,
Paul. Dave is on the archtop course
which takes approx 20 days. He has
been on the last 4 or 5 courses scraping
away in the corner and managed to
get his body glued together - more
about Dave's guitar soon. |
Patrick,
Mike and Paul were all making set
neck electric guitars. We were joined
for a couple of days by Scot who
is making a Maccaferri style guitar
(not pictured - next time!).
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Coming
to the crunch...will it play? Well
it looks gorgeous thanks to Billy
and his amazing spraying skills. Paul
wanted a tobacco burst a carved top
and a trem all in 5 days! Luckily
the others were fairly simple guitars
which helped make it possible. |
3
brand new instruments fresh from
the Bailey workshop.
Thanks to everyone involved - great
people soup and guitars! |
North
West Guitar Show
- Manchester 11th of May
The Bailey Stand always causes a bit of
a stir.
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Electrics
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Archtops&
Acoustics
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Steve
Lewis and his new S2 |
Who
plays your guitar? |
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us NWGS
is celebrating it's 10th anniversary
year - the new 1 day show and venue
were a great success. These shows
are a good way to try or buy a Bailey
guitar. Pictured are some of our electrics.
Check here to find out where you can
see us next. |
The
acoustic and Archtop side of the
stand - Thanks to Chris Pritchet
(CA008) for demoing the archtop
for half a morning - sorry no pic!
Also thanks to Paul Cairns (CA007)and
Alex Munro (CJA001) for lending
us their guitars for display.
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Thanks
Steve! He bought the first left handed
version of the new S2 - made using
only renewable energy. Steve (S2-31)
is a working musician/ music therapist
and we are delighted to welcome him
to the growing number of Bailey players.
www.deepcabaret.co.uk |
Our
stand was opposite Patrick Eggle.
It was great to see him as he was
and still is a big inspiration to
Mark - I asked him what he thought
of the B1
he tried out . He said 'Lovely' -
That made Mark's day. |
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