Brook Guitars News December 2024

December 2024

Ken popped down from Delabole to pick up his new Taw, it’ll join his growing collection of Brooks – he already has a Teign, Tavy and a Blackwater!

Ken and his new Taw

Mark drove down from Hampshire to pick up his new Lamorna,

Mark and his new Lamorna

With a Sitka top, cutaway, a pyramid bridge

Brook Lamorna Cutaway Front

And English walnut back and sides.

Brook Lamorna Back

We’ve had a couple of Rory Gallagher’s collection of guitars in for some fettling and a change of strings! He played this Washburn on his Jinx album tour dates and on the Defender album,

Rory Gallagher's Washburn

And another favourite of his, a Swedish Bjarton parlour, was featured on the first Taste album.

Rory Gallagher's Swedish Parlour

We’ve just sent these two guitars off to Coda – a figured mahogany Taw and a rosewood Tamar.

Coda Brook Taw and Tamar

This twenty year old Teign suffered a neck break whilst it was being sent down to us for a pickup installation,

Broken Brook Teign

Here it is back together and has now been returned to the happy owner.

Vintage Brook Teign

Jonathan brought his Maruszczyk bass along for us enlarge the cavity to fit this substantial Seymour Duncan pickup.

Bass Pickup Fitting

A shelf full of set-ups!

Repair Shelf

And a couple more – an Epiphone Les Paul and a PRS.

More Set-ups

Andy replaced the robotic tuners on this Gibson Les Paul with a standard set of Gibson Deluxe tuners.

Les Paul Robotic Tuner

Our newly installed bridge was hit by a falling tree earlier on in the month, luckily it didn’t do too much damage and, as you can see, it’s clear again now.

Tree Down

Season’s Greetings to all our customers, visitors to our website and Facebook friends.

Season's Greetings 2024

Have an enjoyable winter break and we’ll see you again next year!