Build Your Own First Guitar – May 2013
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- The ‘May’-Team
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- James – BYO 334
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- Gavin – BYO 335
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- Rene – BYO 336
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- Neil – BYO 337
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- My work here is done…
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- James took this!
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 corner of the world we like to call Bailey Land, just to build his own guitar on our course, beating Luis who came from Brazil last time (Luis has since rightly pointed out that at least he got here first!)
It was very hard work as usual but we got there in the end, as we always do…with another four great ‘first’ guitars from the Bailey Workshop and once again we were ‘live streaming‘ to the world!
This is the most basic ‘build’ course we run, basically you make a Bailey Bandsman style guitar, but as you can see there is still some scope for customisation…Gavin chose to have a P90 in the neck position and a chrome cover on his bridge humbucker. Neil and James chose native ash and spalted maple respectively from our multitudinous selection of caps, two of the guys opted for thinner bodies. James also went for a tunamatic bridge with stop tailpiece in place of the standard Wilkinson Bridge. Rene’s guitar is probably the most ‘standard’ as he didn’t opt for any of the extras, but it is still a very lovely guitar as you will have heard if you tuned in to the livestream.
I will leave you with the words from the guys written in the ‘magic book’:
‘Amazing experience, with such fantastic people! Mark has patience like no other. The coffee breaks were made 1000x morerelaxing by laughing at Rene’s stories and Fiona’s biscuits & cakes! Impressed with the high level of which all our guitars came out. Mark is an outstanding teacher. I will be coming back! I’m rambling now. Tired. Dirty. Very sad to be going home. I will miss you all! Oh and yummy soup!’ – James BYO-334 ‘The team have been welcoming, helpful and friendly – I feel as if we have been a family for the past week. Mark is a generous teacher with admirable patience. Carol and Fiona are great hosts. To sum up, I have had a memorable few days with great company and am about to leave with a *really* sweet guitar.’ -Gavin BYO-335 ‘I CAME, I MADE IT & WENT BACK TO TASMANIA. GREAT TIME & THE REST OF THE GROUP WERE “FORMIDABLE”. BEST FIVE DAYS. THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR MAKING ME WELCOME. HASTA LA VISTA, MARK’- Rene BYO-336 ‘I had a great time. Mark made guitar building really easy for us. Everyone made us feel really welcome. Great bunch of enthusiasts. GOOD SOUP! Thanks for the knowledge and a great 6 days! – Neil BYO-337