Kevin pushes the boundaries with his first guitar made on our Build Your Own Custom Guitar Course.
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- Kevin made his own guitar
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- Close up of pearl inlay
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- Custom fretboard inlay
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- Custom inlay
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- 3 a side chrome tuners
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- Rear view of thru neck
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- Cream P90 in the neck position
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- Flame orange – custom colour
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- Chrome hardware
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- Carved top
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- neck thru body construction
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- BYO-295
Kevin made his first guitar on a recent build your own custom course here at the Bailey Workshop. It took seven days to create this instrument from raw blocks of wood which shows you just what is possible on our course. He wanted a neck thru, carved top, electric guitar with ‘flame orange’ maple cap and custom girl inlay on the headstock and custom lettering on the 12th fret, so his design really pushed the boundaries of what is possible, but he was a very fast worker!
He chose to have a humbucker (with a coil cut built into the tone control) at the bridge, and a P90 in the neck position. This gives a wide range of tones at the flick of a switch.
To save time the inlays were made by our good friends at Small Wonder, so all Kevin had to do was inlay the ready made ‘girl’ shape into the headstock and the letters into the fretboard. Incidentaly we asked for just mother of pearl but Mike at Small wonder couldn’t help himself from making the shoes red!
Thankfully Kevin liked it like that, and I had to agree Mike was right…