Saturday, 26 June 2010


In complete contrast to the simplicity of the last guitar is this fancy bass.

The body is predominantly walnut, with a central wenge core and a maple accent.

The neck is my preferred combination of wenge and maple with an ebony board.

Handwound bulldog pickups in handmade wooden cases, brass inlay work and hipshot hardware.

And here is the happy customer, Charlie - cheers Charlie, I enjoyed making this bass a lot.




Here's a nice straightforward guitar in Ash and Maple. Bulldog pickups, Gotoh Hardware and thats cocobolo backing the mother of pearl logo.

Saturday, 27 March 2010





This is the latest bass out of the workshop.




A fretless 35" scale, this instrument features a unusually narrow neck (36mm wide at the nut and about 19mm thick at first fret) and a custom made humbucker from Bulldog.




The woods are African Walnut for the body, maple and ebony neck,figured french walnut, ebony and brass trim.

Sunday, 6 December 2009




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.

Tuesday, 22 September 2009



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












Friday, 28 August 2009




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.


Monday, 29 June 2009


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.