November 2021
We’ve been lucky to avoid the bad storms that have caused so much trouble in the North but with the colder spell early last week the early morning frost brought out this herd of deer,
We haven’t seen them in these sort of numbers so close to the workshop for a while!
We seem to have been making a lot of nylon strung crossover models recently. We’ve just completed this rather striking Lyn,
Very much with a black and white theme – it has a European spruce top, ebony binding, fingerboard, head veneer and custom ebony bridge,
Along with this lovely maple back, sides and laminated neck,
Complemented by these Schaller tuners.
The second nylon strung guitar this month is this Taw with a tinted Sitka top,
The customer also asked for a pyramid bridge and this coda sign on the heel-cap.
Thirdly we have another European spruce and maple short scale Lyn,
This one with tinted back and sides and another of our custom shaped bridges.
Les here came up from Portsmouth to change the tuners for some chrome 510s on his twenty one year old rosewood and Adirondack Tamar.
Two smallish guitars for Coda Music this month: a Little Silver in front and a parlour size Clyst behind,
Sitka tops on both of them, the Silver has English walnut back and sides, the Clyst rosewood.
David Harsh, who writes for a U.S. music magazine, chose a Brook Taw amongst other items in his ‘Writer’s Picks’ column!
James in Michigan is so happy with his new Tamar he’s decided to sell his 2011 Taw to fund another possible build. It’s highly customised with a four piece back of Vietnamese rosewood and Tasmanian blackwood, the top’s Siberian cedar. You can contact James at james@jamesfilkins.com
This ad for a card game arrived this morning in our email. I don’t think we have to build this guitar to tell you the design isn’t going to work very well, don’t get any ideas guys!
We’ll see you next month for the final news update of 2021!