Eat it or play it?
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- Peter Irvine
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- Flamed Jarrah Body
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- Black American Walnut Neck
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- Recessed Jack Socket
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- UV Gloss Finish
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- Chrome Hardware
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- Schroeder Stoptail Bridge
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- Peter Irvine BYO 316
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 have it finished with UV Gloss Lacquer. As there is not enough time for this during the course itself, he fitted the guitar up for a test, before leaving it with us for Billy to spray and polish (first pic). Peter then returned a few weeks later for final assembly and set up.
The main part of the body utilises some of our treasured Flamed Jarrah and if that wasn’t enough he topped it with an extremely highly figured Walnut Cap. The neck was also Walnut with an Ebony Fretboard and inlaid with Mother of Pearl dot markers.
He chose all chrome hardware including his Shroeder Stoptail Bridge and even the pickups had chrome covers – every part of this guitar is shiny and dazzling! The edges of the body were rounded over with a large radius, which makes it look like a boiled sweet to my eyes – I don’t know whether I want to play it or eat it! What would you do?
Like most of our students Peter had little or no experience of making anything let alone a guitar but that is what we are here for. Ninety nine per cent of guitars are made in factories and having worked in one myself in my youth, I know that they are not populated by genius luthiers, but normal people who start at nine and finish at five. What appears to be a very difficult job – making a guitar – is broken down into many small easy steps which anybody can do…trust me I know. That is the basis of all our courses – I guess I was lucky to be there at the time and learn from those guys, so I feel I am giving something back when I pass on some of this hard won knowledge.
Peter returned more recently to build his own Ukulele.