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| I have been a frustrated rock star for many years, weaning out of my teenage years to the likes of Cream, Gallagher, Purple,
Zeppelin, Ten Years After, etc. etc.. I have played guitar and latterly bass since those days but sadly, never well enough to “make it” in music. |
| Due to the lack of finance in the early years I built my first guitar when I was 14 and another when I was 16. Surprisingly as I had
very limited tools, workspace and no guitar theory, they were almost playable. I still have them both hanging on the wall ! |
| Unfortunately any potential guitar building career ended a couple of years later when I saved up and bought my first Gibson SG
Special. That turned out to be a big mistake as the neck folded up and had to be replaced twice (!) under warranty. I soon sold it and have never owned a Gibson since. I then
bought and sold a flurry of guitars including Fenders, various custom mades, Aria and Musicman basses, Gordon Smith 12, Yamaha guitar and bass and a Hamer Special. I still have
a Tele but it has undergone a number of my “learning curve” customisations over the years and is now sadly unsaleable, although it still plays really
well. |
| My amplification changed with the times starting with a Selmer Little Giant, soon upgrading to a T’n’B 50 top then
through HH, Orange, Yamaha, Fender, Peavey, SWR, Trace Elliot and SansAmp. Initially with finances the way they were, I had to embark on building all my speaker cabinets. Since
then I must have made literally “hundreds” of cabinets and rack boxes in all shapes and sizes for pa, guitar and bass. I pride myself on never owning a shop bought
guitar or bass speaker cabinet ! Zsa Zsa of the Hamsters has been constantly “gigging” a pair of my 15” EV loaded cabinets for the past couple of
years. |
| I never lost the desire of wanting to build my own guitars again one day but due to the circumstances of “life”, it was
many years before that desire became a reality. I finally created my workshop in 2005. My first guitar was built along with the commissioning of the woodworking equipment !
Since then my “luthier” learning curve has been somewhat immense but hugely rewarding. Although I still have some constructional issues to resolve every guitar I
build is, I am delighted to say, better than the last ! |
| I hope you like what you see. |
| This website has been created, by demand from interested parties, as a way of “showing” my guitars. I will update these
pictures as and when I complete future guitars. Unfortunately due to time pressures, I am limited to building guitars on a low volume “commission only” basis. One
day I am of course hoping this will change. |
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