Category: Special guitar builds
One-off guitar builds, mods and hotrods
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#plywoodstrat – The Napier Railton Tribute Guitar
This is a post I’ve been looking forward to writing for a very long time. For those who’ve not been following this story, this is my first guitar, a Westfield… Read more
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Korina and wenge J-type
After a visit to Ochanomizu “Guitar street” in Tokyo, I realised I had to have a pure korina guitar as a sister to my black limba T-type. Read more
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Coffee table and bog oak explorer
Many years ago, my uncle made a coffee table at school. After being passed around the family over the decades, it came into my possession with the instruction “make a… Read more
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Runic T-type
As named by Crimson Guitars. Many thanks to the marketing team there for the photos! This is the first guitar I made during my 3-month course with them under the… Read more
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Hofner Shorty
Pickguards for sale! At the time of writing, the first, original size pickguard I made for this project is for sale: Handmade pickguard with provision for jazz pickup Read more
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The Rat – Les Paul Frankenstein Guitar
An increasingly long time ago, I purchased a black Les Paul body from eBay for the princely sum of £10. It was definitely from a Japanese copy, but it was… Read more
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Skaface! Ibanez GIO project
At the time of writing, this guitar is currently available to buy! Click here for details. Read more
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Trilogy Telecaster
I decided after a lot of thought that I really like the idea of a Telecaster, but hadn’t seen one that I liked. Browsing around the Fender custom shop site,… Read more
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