by admin | Jul 1, 2011 | Build Your Own
…Last day tomorrow!… Day 6 Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5 The excitement is mounting now. Six days of hard graft have brought us this far- everyone now has something resembling a guitar and tomorrow we will see and hopefully hear the fruits of our...
by admin | Jun 30, 2011 | Build Your Own
…Only two more days to go! Can you see what it is yet? End of Day 5! Dave will have to finish these tomorrow A neat trick Billy helps out Dave starts to fit his inlays Kevin starts to sand his headstock Marking the side dots Nick frets his neck Cutting out the...
by admin | Jun 28, 2011 | Build Your Own
…Late finish but still on schedule… Day 1, Day 2, Day 3 Day 4 10am till 9pm Kevin has to get his fretboard sprayed and Dave and nick must have theirs glued on to have any chance of finishing on time. Stevie (bass) stepped in to carry on with his 5 string...
by admin | Jun 27, 2011 | Build Your Own
…Another day in the Bailey workshop… Day1, Day 2 Day 3 10am till 7:30pm David and Kevin are making custom electric guitars. They started two days ago with rough blocks of wood and will be playing them by day 7. Nick is here to finish his acoustic which was...
by admin | Jun 26, 2011 | Build Your Own
Today we will mostly be making necks… Day 2 of 7 10am – 7pm Back to Day 1 For Dave and Kevin, our new starters, yesterday was all about fixing their designs and choosing wood etc, so today we could get stuck into building. We had also managed to make fret...
by admin | Jun 25, 2011 | Build Your Own
…Design session and making the fret boards… End of day 1 Taking the clamps off Gluing binding strips Marking the pick up locations band sawing the fretboard Fitting the tailgraft Profiling the fretboard Dave brought his own drawing Kevin works on his...
