...Mother of Pearl 'Southern Cross' inlay... Read Part1, Part 2, Part 3 The guitar is now fretted and inlaid ready for finishing... Sandy had mentioned some kind of...
Custom guitars
Bailey custom acoustic guitar- Ziricote and Bearclaw Bootlegger-P1
...Decisions, decisions... Read part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6 Euan chose Ziricote for the back and sides of his custom Bootlegger and Bearclaw Sitka Spruce for the soundboard. The bootlegger...
Bailey custom acoustic from 40,000 year old Kauri-p3
Working on the neck Read Part 1, Read Part 2 After the neck was carved, I strapped it into the string tension simulator. This simply holds the guitar firm while pushing up on the back of the headstock and pulling down...
Custom Bailey for Skerryvore- Wine red burst
...Finishing... Billy wrote a full explanation of how we do this colour if you are interested in reading about it. The only difference is that this one only has the face of the body coloured, not the back or the sides. We...
Bailey custom acoustic from 40,000 year old Kauri-p2
Making a new custom guitar from the oldest workable wood in the world! Read Part 1 first Sandy was kind enough to provide a link to this web page...
Highland Hot Club visit to check progress on The Spaceship
Steve wants his guitar to light up like a 50's UFO! Steve and Evelyn from the Highland Hot Club came down from Inverness at the weekend for a blistering series of gigs and dropped by to see how the Spaceship was getting...
Custom Bailey for Skerryvore- working on the body
...Getting the feel of it...... Alec from Skerryvore popped in to see how his custom job was going and finalise a few outstanding issues. The main point was to check the feel of the neck...
Custom Bailey for Skerryvore- Inlays and water decal logo
Bailey inlays and Alec logo About Inlays and water decals: The Bailey logos are made from Black Tahiti Pearl as are the fret position marker dots. This is what we call an 'inlay'. These are carefully cut out by hand using...
Bailey custom one string bass-7/7- assembly and set up
...'One is more not four'... The One string wonder is packed up and ready to be sent out today so Andy will receive it tomorrow, all being well. It came out pretty good just a few minor niggles which got ironed out along the way:...
Preston Reed plays his new Bailey guitar
More info about Preston's Bailey Baritone