Recent Work

Here are some pictures and detail of a recently completed Flame F1. But firstly, thanks to David for commissioning this guitar. After playing his new guitar for a few days this is what he said about it; “I’ve been playing the amazing guitar for the last 90 minutes. I’m blown away by the tone, the […]

Over the years I have refretted hundreds of guitars. But I still find that refretting a maple fretboard is the most challenging fretwork to do. Why is that? In this post I thought I will explain some of the challenges associated with this type of work. This may help you if you are considering tackling […]

I was contacted by Peter about replacing the fretboard on his 35th Anniversary Stratocaster. Fender Custom Shop only made 500 of these Strats and each one is identified as 1 to 500. Unusually for a Strat, these models have an ebony fretboard and a birds-eye maple neck. First of all, why do this? Well, a […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]