Brook Guitars News April 2024

April 2024

Danny came down from Gloucestershire to pick his Clyst 12string, it’s long scale, he’s tuned it all the way down to an A and is busy working out Blind Willie McTell songs!

Danny and his new Brook Clyst 12 string

He brought down Intersound customer Ross to see where his Little Silver was made!

Ross and Danny Outside Brook Guitars

Nick is planning to come down from Somerset to collect his new mahogany Torridge.

Nick's Mahogany Brook Torridge

It has a Venetian cutaway and is made from old stock Honduran mahogany.

Nick's Mahogany Torridge Front and Back

This Torridge is off to Tony in Australia.

Brook Lyn Bound for Australia

Tony called in to the workshop last year while he was visiting England and ordered this guitar constructed of non-tropical woods. He asked for a longer scale but the bridge to remain in the normal position – this required the unusual twelve and a half fret body join.

European Spruce Brook Lyn

With bog oak fingerboard, bridge and head veneer, a European spruce top, English walnut back and sides, a yew centre wedge and sycamore binding.

Brook Lyn Walnut and Yew Back

Christian ordered this left-handed, nylon strung Weaver

Brook Weaver Left Handed Nylon Strung

With a cedar top and English walnut back and sides.

Nylon Strung Brook Weaver Front and Back

Dave came down from Swindon for the rosewood Taw we featured in last month’s news.

Dave and his new Brook Taw

A rosewood and Sitka spruce Lamorna for Coda

Brook Lamorna for Coda

And a rosewood and European spruce Taw for Project.

Nearly twenty years ago, for a college project, Matt produced the short  film of our workshop you can see on our YouTube page. He’s still playing the Teign he bought back at the time – currently with the Celtic band Glasta. Here he is with his dog Ruby!

Nick, Ruby and Brook Teign

Since those early days Matt’s become an award winning documentary filmmaker based in Vancouver!

Matt's Brook Teign

Banjo player extraordinaire Rob Murch called in to pickup the banjo we’d recently repaired and treated us to a couple of tunes. He’d just returned from a short Northern tour with Geoff Lakeman.

Rob Much in the workshop

Tim picked up his early 1900s Fairbanks parlour we’d had in for repair.

Fairbanks Parlour

This harp guitar had seen better days, we reattached various struts, re-glued the front and the back, restrung it and returned it to its happy owner.

Harp Guitar

Part of a new shipment of Indian rosewood tucked away for future use.

Indian Rosewood

We returned the refinished Telecaster to Richard in Market Harborough.

Richard's Silvery Sunburst

As for the Martin binding issue –

Andy's Binding Heating Tool

These are positively the last two we have time to deal with.

Bloody Martin Binding

Andy and I commute to the workshop from opposite directions, earlier in the month we both had the same idea of taking a photo of the snow over the moors as we were travelling in – here are our results.

Snow over Dartmoor

Andy’s  cycling group dropped in one Saturday earlier in the month and Julia took this photo by the workshop door.

Bike Photo Outside Brook Guitars Workshop

That’s all for this month!