It's been a while since I have updated this blog and life has taken a few unexpected twists of late. So we found ourselves locked away at home - ooo time on ...

So one day, myself and Jon were coming back from lunch and we just happened to be passing Guitar Guitar in Camden. The conversation was sort going along the ...

So having handed off Ron his Tele from the Country Club Collection, he showed up in the Shed one day with this lovely looking Strat. Me: "It lovely and Red ...

So having now got the Bananacaster neck all fixed up fitted to the carved body and complete, I now found myself in the position of having a spare Telecaster ...

I have written about this guitar before, but it has come on quite a ways over the last year, and has now has got incorporated into it every good element of t...

This is the last of the batch of guitars from the Country Club run, So a brief recap here. So last July (2018) I was laid up and off work and recuperating in...

For almost 50 years I have lusted after a Full Bodied Left Handed Gibson Jazz guitar but the price has always been astronomical - very few Lefties were eve...

So having Bling the Gold Strat hanging on the wall of the workshop as a decoy was too much of a temptation and there was lots of tweaking and fiddling going...

Years ago Maybe (1975 or something like that) I had a 14 watt Watkins Westminster with a tremelo made in around '62, which I got from a mate in the pub for t...

So I was working on a P Bass (I got carried away on a whim) - routed it out for a Jazz bass Pickup at the bridge, and after a week of messing around having f...

So this particular guitar took a while. A nice dark Wine Red Strat. In its original incarnation it had the Dimarzio SDS humbucker in the bridge, which eventu...

So then these two happened to come along - Bling and Blong - whatever else could you conceivably call these guitars, but each have their role and story in th...

You have got to love the Cheap Ones as well From the Country Club Project, part of the game has been to knock up a couple of Strats. Culled from the pile of...

Back at work again and picking up on projects that have been dormant while I have been at home for a while. I must admit that I am a sucker for Leslie Cabine...

There seems to be a time when we ultimately have to become the older generation and do things for ourselves and it is always associated with a passing, and a...

So I was um buying this package of parts - which I guess really amounted to a couple of guitars all in bits, and as part of this there was a well beaten up L...

On one of the Forums, I had seen one of the Cigar Box 3 string Guitar builders use a plank of 4x2 timber to form the body of a lap steel guitar and this sor...

I have been having a fair degree of success with Stratocaster builds of late and, apart from the neck set, one of the key components is a large hunk of brass...

From the Country Club batch, the first out of the Traps is a Tele which is now complete - a very nice Black Bound Body from a Left Handed Donor Guitar - soli...

Rewiring an Archtop guitar is a bit like keyhole surgery - something I was supposed to have for a routine Op, but things changed a bit, which is why I'm able...