The Nouveau Simple is proving a popular design. This version in ash and maple, with ebony plates, inlays and neck binding is shortly off to Greece and into the hands of Dionisis Frantzis, bassist for Onirama ( http://www.onirama.gr/ ).

Dionisis asked for an inlay on twelth fret. The triangle logo ( based on the Greek letter D ) is made from both white and gold mother of pearl set in ebony.

This bass also features hand wound pickups courtesy of Hayden Minett at Bulldog pickups - and rather excellent they are too.

This guitar is the third I've built for this particular client - which puts him top of the owners club!

Certainly one of the finest instruments I've made it features..

- Mahogany, Wenge, and Maple veneer laminated neck

- Deep set "semi-through" neck.....the neck runs through the body almost to the bridge pickup cavity.

- Exhibition grade Quilted Maple/Rosewood/Honduran Mahogany/Quilted Maple laminate body

construction.

- Tom Holmes pickups

Hello. This is the latest guitar completed - built for Mr Stuart Burton.

It features a maple/RW neck, ash body , Gotoh Black chrome hardware. The humbucker is custom wound by Bulldog pickups - using all black pole pieces.

The finish is my usual oil and wax over a black stain, which gives the wood an aged, smokey feel. This is my take on the relic look I suppose - but rather than making the guitar look old I make the wood look like it's sbeen around for a while. This coupled with the mirrored plates give the insturment an industrial look which I rather like.

The finished "Nouveau Simple" in Walnut.

This bass features a single Kent Armstrong Humbucker with a Kent Armstrong active circuit, Rosewood Board, and an English Walnut body.

It has a much warmer, rounder sound than the previous "simple" bass with very strong mids, largly down to the walnut body which is nearer in mahogany tonally, but with a little more bite and top end.

This bass is for sale, please email for details.

Hello, here's a recent publicity shot. Hopefully for use in Bass Guitar Magazine in their Luthier section - more news on that soon....

That the Walnut "Simple" bass nearly finished, behind the version in cherry

The finished result.

Here's a pic of the Mother of Pearl inlay.

The logo is simply how I sign the "E" of my surname. Each piece of MOP is individually signed then the shape cut out using a fret saw.

When inlayed into the headstock the void is filled using a mixture of epoxy resin and ebony dust to give a black logo.

This is the next "Simple" Bass in progress.

Neck mostly done bar the carving and it's sitting on a nice walnut body blank, which has a lovely ripple and golden colour.

This bass will feature a single kent armstrong humbucker and active circuit but should still sell at around the £750 - £800 mark

Here's another shot from the back, the neck is set but I didnt carve the neck join as I normally would, as the client wanted the neck natural and the body stained. If I'd stained the guitar after fitting the neck, the colour would have bled into the neck and looked horrible.

Hi All.

This is the first of what I hope will be a regular look into whats going on in the workshop.

This guitar I built a few months ago but had to ship it before I had chance to photograph is properly.

It was quite an unusual instrument so I thought it was worth a mention here.

Firstly, no controls and only one pickup - a single coil q - tuner ( www.q-tuner.com ) fitted from the back of the guitar.

The body and neck are both maple ( flamed maple board ), the body is stained black rather than lacquered or painted which preserves the wood figuring and gives a look to the body not unlike black leather.