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!
He brought down Intersound customer Ross to see where his Little Silver was made!
Nick is planning to come down from Somerset to collect his new mahogany Torridge.
It has a Venetian cutaway and is made from old stock Honduran mahogany.
This Torridge is off to Tony in 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.
With bog oak fingerboard, bridge and head veneer, a European spruce top, English walnut back and sides, a yew centre wedge and sycamore binding.
Christian ordered this left-handed, nylon strung Weaver
With a cedar top and English walnut back and sides.
Dave came down from Swindon for the rosewood Taw we featured in last month’s news.
A rosewood and Sitka spruce 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!
Since those early days Matt’s become an award winning documentary filmmaker based in Vancouver!
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.
Tim picked up his early 1900s Fairbanks parlour we’d had in for repair.
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.
Part of a new shipment of Indian rosewood tucked away for future use.
We returned the refinished Telecaster to Richard in Market Harborough.
As for the Martin binding issue –
These are positively the last two we have time to deal with.
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.
Andy’s cycling group dropped in one Saturday earlier in the month and Julia took this photo by the workshop door.
That’s all for this month!