Recent Work

On this recent work page you will find news items posts about custom guitar builds that are under way, and repair, modification or servicing work that I have undertaken recently. You can also stay in touch with what is happening at Flame Guitars by signing up to my quarterly Newsletter.


Flame custom electric guitar


Here are some pictures and details of a recently completed Flame custom electric guitar. This Flame custom electric guitar was commissioned by Andrew, who lives in Sheffield. The full specification for this guitar took several months to finalise and we did this using Zoom calls and email. This guitar contains a lot of nice detailing […]


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Flame F1


Here are pictures and details of a recently completed Flame F1 Quilted Maple Custom. This guitar was commissioned by a friend of mine, Paul. I got to know Paul when we both worked for the London Fire Brigade. We discovered that we had a joint love of guitars. It was a pleasure to make this […]


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Reshaping a Gibson Explorer neck


A friend of mine bought a Custom Shop Gibson Explorer. This guitar had a neck thickness of 23mm at the first fret and 26mm at the 12th fret. He found that this neck was just too thick for him. When I asked him why he bought this guitar, knowing that the neck was too thick […]


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Flame Metisse


Over the years I have worked on many hundreds of Stratocasters. But I have never owned one. Back in 2017 I decided to put together my own Strat. I bought the body, the bridge, pickups and tuners, and then made my own neck. I sprayed the body but was not happy with how it turned […]


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Flame F1 Bubinga Custom


Here are some photographs of a recently completed Flame F1 Bubinga Custom.   Specification: Body: Bubinga top wood White limba side wings Chambered body Neck: Through-neck construction 7 piece walnut and maple neck 25″ scale length 24 frets (stainless steel) Ebony fretboard with bloodwood edge binding Compound radius-10-16″ Two-way truss rod Hardware: ABM 3250 bridge […]


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Building a multiscale headless guitar


I was approached by a customer, Jake,  about the possibility of building a multiscale, headless guitar for him. Quite a long discussion began and out of those discussions a build specification was agreed. Because this is a multiscale guitar, the body shape had to be somewhat different from the last headless guitar I made. I […]


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Building a lightweight Les Paul guitar


A while back a regular customer of mine, Paul, approached me about the possibility of building a lightweight Les Paul style guitar. Paul has a Les Paul, but like many a Les Paul it is very heavy and therefore quite hard to gig with for any length of time. There are a number of factors […]


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Another Les Paul neck break repair


A while back I uploaded a video to my YouTube channel about a Les Paul neck break repair. On the guitar the headstock had snapped off completely. I uploaded that video during the first Covid lock-down here in the UK. The world seemed to be watching videos on YouTube at the time. As a consequence, […]


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Flame F1 custom guitar


This Flame F1 custom guitar was commission by Daniel Weavers. I first got to know Daniel when he was a teenager. Over the course of several years he came to me with guitars to service and set up. Having left school, and after working for some time, Daniel asked me to build a guitar for […]


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Resurrection of a 1970’s Les Paul Custom


“Somewhere in the 40 years since my Les Paul Custom was built, it died; somehow, you’ve brought it back to life. I don’t know if it was the fret work, new bridge, new nut, neck work; maybe it was all of the above. But something worked a resurrection. I had hoped for better sustain, better […]


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