August 2021
Graham came over to the workshop from Tavistock with his partner Gail to pick up his new Tamar, they treated us to a medley of Nick Drake songs!
Graham’s figured English walnut and European spruce topped Tamar featured a shorter 630 mm scale length for ease of playing.
We had two new guitars for Coda: This figured mahogany Taw
And this sunburst top Lamorna,
A customer visiting the workshop the other week took a fancy to the Lamorna and arranged with Coda to buy it, then pick it up from us when it was ready. Hopefully we’ll get a photo of Nigel collecting it for next month’s news.
This little Clyst is going off to Russ in Oklahoma,
Here’s a close up of the traditional looking tinted Sitka top with abalone purfling and rosette and a pyramid bridge,
And here’s the torch inlay on the headstock.
Phil and Keith came down from Somerset for quick tweaks on their two Brooks.
Now – just some of the ever-increasing repairs we’ve been acquiring: a new bridge for this McAlister, a Martin D18 neck re-set, a Kinkead with multiple splits, and general repair work on this National . We are going to have to turn down some of the repair work before too long as it’s starting to interfere with our main job – making guitars!
Here’s the little jig we made up for cutting the fret slots on the latest fan fret Tavy we have on the go.
We were kindly given these sections of an old mahogany table to re-saw as guitar sets.
