Blonde and beautiful
Joe came to build his first guitar at Bailey’s for a special birthday. Born in Scotland Joe lived in South Africa until he came back to the UK with his family. Making a guitar was something he always wanted to do…. and he chose the Build your First Guitar course. On this course we build a guitar based on the Bailey Bandsman but Joe wanted a few modifications to the standard spec. The Thru body bridge adds a bit of extra work – mainly to drill all those holes for the strings and ferrules…
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- Alder body
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- Joe with girls
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- Two Humbuckers
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- Thru body stringing
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- String ferrules
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- BYO 349
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- custom headstock
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- Build Your First Guitar
In Joe’s own words
It was supposed to be a BYO first [a Bandsman] but I wanted a bit of custom…but keep-it-simple with a hard-tail, alder body, maple neck, ebony fingerboard with a slight custom shape to the body and headstock…set neck, short scale and only 22 frets -again to keep it simple. Twin humbuckers with a coil tap switch for some variation without complicating it too much. I also wanted no paint job, just oil for that raw look.
Build Your First Guitar in 5 Days ?
Whatever your level of inexperience, it is possible to build anything from a basic electric with a few tweaks in 5 days, through to a more customised (even self designed ) instrument on one of our courses – the Build Your First Guitar course runs over 6 consecutive days (which means only ONE trip), and the next course starts May 1 2015 … we have only one place left… if that’s too soon there are other courses throughout the year.
If a Bandsman style guitar doesn’t take your fancy then we have other courses, in different time frames to suit…