Design Your Own Guitar – 1 Day Course

Saturday 25 Feb 2012 at the Bailey Workshop

Design Your Own Guitar – 1 day course

Ever wanted to design your own guitar? Or get a custom guitar but don’t know where to start? Want to build your own dream guitar?

Design your own Guitar is our newest course and is rapidly becoming a favourite. It is a great way to get a feel for the workshop and decide whether to come back on another course to actually build it, or have me do it. Of course there is no obligation, some of our ‘designers’ just want to make a drawing and leave it at that. You could even have the guitar made elsewhere, or build it at home under your own steam, in your own time, either way this course is an excellent starting point. But if you do decide to go ahead and commission your design we will deduct the price of this course from the total price.

The idea is to begin with a blank sheet of paper and work through the entire design process, making vital decisions as we go, to finish with a custom guitar drawing of your very own. We try and pack in as much useful information as humanly possible including answering any questions as they arise.

The course covers all aspects of the design including discussions on construction styles, wood, hardware, bridges, tuners, pickups and electrics. All participants leave with a working drawing. The course also includes our Guitar Magic DVD and Bailey T Shirt to take away with you, and a work shop tour including a visit to the wood room.

It is worth pointing out that three of our participants this time had been bought the course as a gift, another increasing trend we are finding, and what a present to get!

There is much myth and confusion around the world of guitar design, this course aims to fix that.

Make it real!

This time it looks like four of the designs will eventually be made into guitars.

Allan is considering commissioning me to make his design for him. Nick and Alex have already themselves booked on our build your own guitar course.

James came to find out more about guitars and to get to know us a bit better, he is Nick’s father.

Ian also wanted just to learn, but by lunch was talking about signing up to build his own, and left with that familiar glint in his eye.

Steve has already built a few guitars at home on his own and wanted to fill in a few gaps in his knowledge.

Overall it was a very enjoyable day, and considerably less stressful for everyone as no wood was cut – a great introduction to the world of guitar making.

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