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£5000 Guitar Prize Draw!
Our Biggest Ever Guitar Give-away! Prize Draw : 15th April - 15:15 BST UPDATE: See http://news.baileyguitars.co.uk/index.php/2014/04/5000-guitar-live-prize-draw/ As we approach the final weeks of our 15th Anniversary Year the excitement is mounting here at Bailey...
Video – Electric Guitars hand made in the UK!
Brace yourselves folks - we have entered the video age... Introducing the Bailey range of electric guitars - Bandsman, Curve, Exotica and Special Edition. All Bailey Guitars are handmade in the UK using only renewable energy! Special thanks to Colourflow for the...
Build Your Own Guitar – BYO 321 – David Peacock
New colour discovered in the Bailey workshop! David Peacock Green Something really nice about this one - I think you will agree. It was made in 5 days on our build your...
Build Your First Guitar – BYO-320 – Jamie McArthur
I AM THE GOD OF HELL FIRE AND I BRING YOU... BYO-320 Jamie McArthur 18/9/12 An amazing experience. Many thanks. Blessings. Jamie ...Vegetables... Jamie used to be our veg man - he first...
Build Your Own First Guitar – BYO 319 – Lewis Robertson
Its the quiet ones you have to watch... [gallery link="file" ids="http://baileyarchive.teapotdev.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/BYO-319-Lewis-Robertson-e1380279772442.jpg|Lewis Robertson -...
Build Your Own First Guitar – BYO 318 – Ray Benitez
Kill, Kill, Kill (switch) BYO318 Ray Benitez 18/9/12 Bandsman with mahogany body, flame ash cap, mahogany neck (from a pew in a church in Glasgow) and ash veneer on the headstock. Black hardware...
Build Your Own Guitar – New Course Dates
New Dates for 2014! New course dates are up on the shop for 2014 (2015 to follow very soon) and people are already booking themselves in. We are running some kind of course event every month...take your pick from the popular one day Design Your Own Guitar...
Build Your Own First Guitar – BYO-317 – Paul Hagan
[gallery columns="4" link="file" ids="http://baileyarchive.teapotdev.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/BYOF-317-full-frontaljpg-e1380218500104.jpg|Build Your Own First Guitar...
Build Your Own Custom Guitar – BYO-316 – Peter Irvine
Eat it or play it? BYO316 Peter Irvine 2/9/12 Peter came on our build your own custom guitar course to make this, his first guitar. He chose some spectacular pieces of wood and decided to...
Build Your Own Custom Guitar – BYO-315 – Tony Vince
Single Cut Thru Neck - with MIDI BYO315 Tony Vince 2/9/12 The Story Tony made his first guitar back with us in July 2007bb (before blog) - He was way ahead of us when it comes to blogging...
Build Your Own Custom Guitar – BYO 314 – Steve Duncan
What Steve made [gallery columns="4" link="file" ids="http://baileyarchive.teapotdev.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/BYO-314-steve-e1380212830554.jpg|Steve Duncan...
Build Your Own Custom Guitar – BYO-313 – Peter Harper
Thru Neck Custom Guitar [gallery link="file" ids="http://baileyarchive.teapotdev.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/IMG_0596-e1380210839493.jpg|Build Your Own Custom Guitar...
Build Your Own Custom Guitar – BYO 312 Ian McGhie
Made in 8 days... [gallery columns="4" link="file" ids="http://baileyarchive.teapotdev.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/BYO312-Full-Front.jpg|Single cut with F-Hole,http://baileyarchive.teapotdev.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/BYO312-Full-Rear-e1389378025443.jpg|Set...
Build Your Own Acoustic Guitar – BYOA 19 – Graham Taylor
Graham's second guitar Graham came on our Build your Own Custom Guitar course a while back and made a Tasmanian Blackwood bolt on guitar with all the bells and...
Preston Reed’s new album- ‘In Here, Out There’
Preston reeds new album is finally out and it is *92.31% Bailey! If you want to hear what a Bailey acoustic guitar sounds like at it's best then here is a taster of Preston playing one of the tunes from his new album on his Bailey Signature Series Jumbo. I have...
Build Your Own Guitar – BYO-311 Alex
You don't have to save someone's life to come here but it helps! [gallery link="file" ids="http://baileyarchive.teapotdev.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/IMG_9930-e1380207140303.jpg|Carving the...
Colourflow
Andy Gelband Rocks his Bailey BYO Guitar! Turn up it up! '...being promoted to your community is a massive bonus to us, so thanks very much....and thanks for my awesome guitar' - Andy GelbandAndy came on one of our courses a few years ago and is now working with his...
Custom Bootlegger for Steve Skelcher
Steve's Third Bailey Guitar Three cheers for Steve Skelcher! Steve first contacted us to commission this custom black exotica and then went on to order...
Happy New Year and Thanks to You All
THE FIRST BAILEY BLOG of 2014 Here at Bailey we are just coming out of festive hibernation, starting to reorganise and repair our well used workshop... and make our plans for 2014/2015. Firstly we should send out a BIG THANKS to all those who joined the Bailey family...
Build Your Own Custom Guitar – BYO-310 – Mark Shoebottom
So, what did you do on your holiday? This was Mark's first build on our Build Your Own Custom Guitar course and he came all the way from Germany to our little...
Iona’s 21st Birthday Guitar – BYO 344
The Bailey Team all got together... Billy and Fiona are Iona's parents and both help us out here at the Bailey workshop. Fiona made this guitar on our...
Build Your Own First Guitar Course – October 2013
How can you build a guitar from scratch in 5 days? On our Build Your Own First Guitar Course (of course). This is in fact Graham's THIRD guitar...
Build Your First Guitar – Live
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Custom Build Left Handed Neck Thru Electric Guitar – Part 2
All the woodwork complete and ready for spraying! Part 1| Part 2| Part 3| Part 4 As I mentioned in Part 1 last week, Allan came on our 1 day Design...
Custom Dreadnaughty for Ian Durham
Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and a tyrant, and I declare him my enemy! This was always going to be a tricky build for me as I know Ian very well. He is a very good...
Custom Build Left Handed Neck Thru Electric Guitar – Part 1
Part 1| Part 2| Part 3| Part 4 Allan came on our 1 day Design Your Own Guitar course last year and I helped him draw this guitar which he then...
New Words Added to Dictionary
For your own safety I am recommending that you all add these immediately to your spell checker. Bailify Bai·li·fy (bl-f) tr.v. bai·li·fied, bai·li·fy·ing, bai·li·fies 1. To produce Bailey Power on or in (a...
Custom Bootlegger Acoustic Guitar – CA-16 – For Mandy Green
Bootlegger with Bling! Mandy Green from Stranraer is an accomplished guitar player, seasoned gigger, and one of the chief organisers of ParkFest and the Stranraer...
Build Your Own Custom Guitar – Aug/Sept 2013
This course was slightly unusual in that instead of four builders working from scratch we only had David Pullar - the rest of the places were taken by our acoustic builders who are...
Melisa Kelly Live at Troon in the Bailey Guitars Tent – Something to Shout About
Well, amongst others, Melisa Kelly gave us all 'Somethin to Shout About' (bet she's not heard that one before..) Live@Troon in the Bailey Guitars Beach Tent last weekend. What a great show we had over the two days. The vid gives an idea of how good it really...
Bailey Beach Tent – Live@Troon 7/8th Sept
One week and counting.... Here at Bailey we wanted to do some different and exciting stuff as part of our 15th year celebrations - and thanks to the live@Troon festival organisers we are starting September in style - with our very own Bailey Beach Tent at Troon...
Build Your Own Custom Guitar Course – July 2013 – Update
Highlights from the latest Bailey Custom BYO Course Here at the Bailey workshop, the summer has flown by in a haze of heat and sawdust. July and August are our Custom course months, when folk from across the globe descend on us to build their own, personally designed...
Build Your Own Custom Guitar July 2013 – Live Web Cam
Live from the Bailey Workshop - meet the cast It's that time of year again -Custom BYO and the sun is out finally We have two first timers, Paul from the Midlands, and Tom from Essex, with...
Keep Music Live? You can make a world tour happen
Preston Reed NEW ALBUM & TOUR Preston Reed has just recorded his first album in 7 years! We at Bailey Guitars are buzzing with excitement as most of the compositions (Preston told me 90%) have been written and recorded using his own Signature Series guitars...
Steve McKeand talks about his Bailey custom archtop guitar
First play and review of Steve's custom archtop Steve plays guitar professionally in his band 'The Highland Hotclub'. He first commissioned this custom Bailey Kithara Archtop guitar about five years ago and paid for it on a monthly basis. Now it is finished, all paid...
Build Your Own First Guitar – May 2013
Build Your Own First Guitar - May 2013 We are constantly surprising ourselves how much Bailey Guitars are really reaching out across the world nowadays...Rene came all the way from Tasmania, to our little...
Livestream Update
Luis finishes his guitar! Last time we tried live streaming from the workshop we had problems with the audio...I promised I would upload a clip of the finished guitar so here it is! Luis built his guitar in 5 days on our Build Your Own First Guitar course which takes...
Build Your Own Guitar – Live from the Bailey Workshop
Build Your Own First Guitar - Live From the Bailey Workshop 2pm Thur 23rd - 6pm Tues 28th May We will be broadcasting via ustream for the duration of this course - please feel free to comment! Live steam (now expired) Yikes... We don't just run courses here! We also...
International Marketing Guru joins Bailey Guitars
Welcome Margaux - Our first international work placement student We are very exited and grateful to have her here - Thanks for choosing us for your project! Margaux will be with us for 8 weeks as part of her BTS Commerce International Course at the Lycee de Metiers in...
Bailey Guitars at the Scottish Music Show
Bailey Guitars exhibited at the Scottish Music Show -Venue: New Lanark Mills World Heritage Centre - What a beautiful place! Date: 27/28th April 2013 - Weather sunny! (with a few minor showers - it was the Scottish Guitar Show after all!) New Lanark Mills is a world...
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Build your own Guitar – Live Stream Experiment – Update
They think its all over...it is now! Luis came all the way from Brazil and became our first student to completely build his guitar live on air- the first one made in our 15th year. We have never broadcast live from the workshop before...it was a five day experiment...
PRIZE DRAW – Bailey Kithara Archtop Guitar – worth £5000
It’s our 15th Anniversary Prize Draw! To celebrate and say thanks for supporting us through the first 15 years we are giving away one of our top of the range Kithara Archtop guitars to one lucky customer. Win ANY Bailey Kithara Archtop Guitar! For one year every £9.99...
Live from the Bailey Workshop!
Welcome to Bailey World! TUES 9th Update As part of our 15th Anniversary celebrations we will be broadcasting live from the workshop - a rare peek at what happens on our courses...from 10am onwards - please leave a comment! Today is Luis from BRAZIL's last day here -...
Cooper Stands – Now available from Bailey Guitars
A Beautiful wooden (or recycled composite) stand that folds up and fits in your case. Sturdy and good looking in a tiny package! I discovered these at a show recently - The ones I used previously were always a problem just...
Jesus shops at Bailey Guitars – Actual Physical Evidence!
Yeah, I get a lot of these retired carpenter types...I didn't even know he was a player. If any of you are interested in what he bought by the way - it was our DVD - 'Guitar Magic'. Despite the name there are no...
Build Your Own Uke – Part 1
...Build Your own Uke at the Bailey workshop... Ellis, Fiona, Jamie and Peter are currently building their...
Bailey Workshop Feature in Acoustic Magazine
The Bailey Workshop is featured in issue 75, Feb 2013 Acoustic Magazine! see pages 84-85 with a new full size 'Bailey' ad on Page 86. Rush out and buy it now!!! Or subscribe online. Also great to see Martin Taylor and Tommy Emmanuelle looking like a pair of cool...