A handsome bunch.....( of guitars) Left to right: Dan, Neil, (me), Sam and Chris. These four all work for Bareknuckle Pickups and came to build their own guitars.......That's me in the middle.......I run the course........of course.......I'm thinking maybe about...
Tony begins the 'Dragon'. Willem, Hans, and Fred arrive from Holland to build their first guitars. Tony will return on the next course to continue with this one. Obviously there is not time for this sort of...
An Absolute pleasure to have these four and help them all build their first guitars. William came from Brazil! The others were slightly more local. The photo of Chris's guitar doesn't really do it justice but that...
Tom finishes his fretless bass with a TREM! When Tom first asked me if he could make this I did think he was a bit mad.... but aren't we all? Started on the Nov course this guitar took 8 days (3 days longer than normal) mainly because...
Duncan Finishes his 4th byo, Paul's 3rd, Andy Wood's 2nd, and Nick Harris makes his first. Dunc came to finish what he had started in Nov. What a stunner.it turned out to be. The Paduak body really came up gorgeous. Highly figured...
Paul continues his acoustic, Adam makes a single cut/set neck. Duncan Starts his 4th BYO guitar. Marcel also starts his 4th Bailey BYO - a bass to be featured in the Dutch 'Bassist' mag. Tom starts to build a fretless bass with a trem - yes he is quite mad. More on...
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...
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 few...
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 half...
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...