GuitarMaking.co.uk - The Academy of Guitar Making by Mark Julian Bailey Hi Folks - Important announcement We have a new website! I have called the new site 'GuitarMaking.co.uk - The Online Guitar Making Academy' As you can probably guess from the name - this will be...
Keith Tiltman makes his first guitar on our Workshop Course You think you are making a guitar, but really the guitar is making you. If you want to do this thing I can imagine no better place, no more expert tuition, nor more congenial company. So thankyou so much Mark...
Andrew Braidwood made this guitar here in the Bailey Workshop on our Build Your Own First Guitar course Where to start? I built a Bandsman with maple cap (bookmatched) Swamp Ash body maple neck - she is a real blonde beauty. I loved this course - it was...
Tip of the day: Not like this... There is more than one way to kill a cat... One of the students on my workshop course sent me this pic recently (Thanks David!) - OK. This is one way to clamp the body - but not the way we do it here! Let us hope he was wearing safety...
Not bad for a first go! John came on one of our workshop courses to build his very first acoustic guitar based on the Bailey Bootlegger. The extra binding around the headstock and fretboard adds a lot of work but the result is fantastic - topped off by a custom inlay...
A first for all of us! John came on our workshop course to build his first guitar - it is the first classical style instrument made here at Bailey Guitars - It came out so well he immediately started planning his second build! [gallery link="file" columns="4"...
It was a long time coming... Stevie was one of the first people we met when we moved here to Ayrshire - it took a while before he took the plunge...but we are glad he did. It was a pleasure to have him around the workshop and what a beastie! [gallery link="file"...
Bookmatched Jarrah cap and headstock veneer Mike lives in Scotland but a bit too far to come on our one day workshop sessions, and at the time he was also working shifts which made...
Carved to Perfection - the Bandsman CT Doug was one of the first students to put a carve on our Standard Bandsman...having seen our special carve top...he had a picture in his own mind of what he wanted to build [gallery link="file"...
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...