by admin | Oct 26, 2008 | Build Your Own
Kai makes a ‘Cloud’ guitar. Paul returns to start his first acoustic whilst Scott and Lewis continue work on theirs. Also Duncan Roberts makes his first.(sorry Duncan no pics….) Yet another first for us was Kai deciding he wanted to make a copy of...
by admin | Aug 5, 2008 | Build Your Own
Wow this was a hard one – mainly because of the bound neck and tricky shaped body. This all adds time and led to several late nights in the workshop. Binding the neck makes the fretting take longer as each fret must be undercut both sides. There may have been a...
by admin | Jul 5, 2008 | Build Your Own
Scott continues with his acoustic. Brian, Tony and our Rock Radio prize winner Rebekah all completed their guitars. The guys from Rock Radio and Elixir strings came down to see R’s finished instrument. All were mightily impressed with the result. Scot is about...
by admin | Jun 26, 2008 | Build Your Own
First thru neck bass in 5 days! Also the first time we have had a bass, 6 string, archtop and acoustic all at the same time. Dave returns once again to get some more done on his archtop. This pic was taken at the start of the five day course. During this time He...
by admin | Jun 5, 2008 | Build Your Own
Bailey guitars teamed up with Elixir strings and Rock Radio as part of their ‘Rocktober’ promotion. The winner designs and builds their dream guitar. This is the first half of the course. Left to right: Scot, Tony, Rebecca and Brian. This was a very short...
by admin | May 26, 2008 | Build Your Own
Patrick and Mike are the only brothers we have had on the course which made for all sorts of jolly japes. Dave making an archtop and Paul a ‘double cut’ made up the full compliment with Scott popping in for a few days to work on his maccaferri. Left to...
