Wez Venables is a custom guitar builder from Burton-On-Trent in the UK. Each of his guitars is individually designed and built.
He is happy making vintage retro designs as well as new or experimental designs, including fanned fret instruments.
This is a step-by-step guide to scalloping your fretboard. Scalloping is the removal of wood between the frets (usually from fret 14 upwards). Some players, like Yngwie Malmsteen, favour a scalloped fretboard as it is supposed to make it easier to play fast.
The tools needed are: a round file and sandpaper for wood removal and a Dremel for polishing.
Cool Acoustics started as a PhD project in industrial design by Owain Pedgley in 1999. It is now a guitar innovation project, hosted by Loughborough University in the UK.
Birdsong guitars was established in 2001 by luthiers Scott Beckwith and Jamie Hornbuckle. They specialize in short scale professional quality basses.
This instructable shows how to make a folding guitar. The technique of folding the neck using a hinge to the body end of the neck is not new, but this guide shows a DIY version. This guide has some interesting ideas, but I would say its still in the development stage: I can't see a mechanism to lock the unfolded neck in place.
The London Guitar show is back at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre, London Docklands June 11th to 14th 2009. The lineup is:
Saturday 13th June
10 am Guitar Idol final
12.45 Jan Akkerman
The Casio DG-20 was a budget guitar synthesizer. It had plastic strings triggering onboard synthesizer sounds as well as a built-in speaker, built-in drum machine, drum pads and MIDI output.
Hondo H1 which John purchased from Music Go Round in Lewisville, TX. Their
distributor still had the original cases in stock so he bought one of
those too!
Elongated Explorer/lighting bolt shaped electric guitar,. Manufacture of the H1s started sometime in the 1980s. It has a fixed bridge, a single humbucking pickup at the bridge with a single volume control. Later made models may feature an additional tone contol. The headstock shape echos the body shape, with a circle-H Hondo logo.
This tourquoise Epiphone Casino equipped with Epiphone vibrato is owned by Max of the radiostars. He used this guitar during the recordings sessions of The Radiostars - More Traditional Than You (1999) and of The Radiostars - For What Might Have Been (2003). The original machine heads were swapped for a set of Grovers.
Dark, metallic blue body. I use Ernie Ball Super Slinky strings on it. Everything is basically stock. Rescued it from a pawnshop for $140. The only problem it had when bought was a slight issue with the Floyd-Rose bridge.
A collection of twelve rare early British-made electric guitars has been found in a Cheltenham basement of a house. The Supersound guitars were made by during a short partnership between Jim Burns and Alan Wootton from 1958 and 1959.
The collection includes both single and double cutaway solid body electric guitars and basses with Gibson influenced necks and headstock shapes.
The X series of archtop electric Jazz style guitars runs from the early fifties to the present day.
