Recent Work

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

“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 […]

In 2019 I was approached by Ian Dow about the possibility of making a copy of a guitar made for Albert King in the early 70’s by Dan Erlewine. The distinctive feature of this guitar is that it has Albert King’s name inlaid in the fretboard and “Lucy” inlaid in the headstock. In the end, […]

I recently uploaded a video onto my YouTube channel which shows the repair of a Les Paul with a completely snapped off headstock. If you would like to watch that video click on this LINK. Since that video was uploaded I have had a number of requests to carry out a Les Paul neck repair. […]

When I first started working on guitars more than thirty years ago, stainless steel fretwire (SS) was not available. Whilst nickel frets are still fitted on the vast majority of production guitars, a number of manufacturers, including Ibanez and Suhr, are fitting stainless steel frets to some, if not all, of their guitars. As stainless […]

Flame Guitars Newsletter-December 2020 Each December I put together a calendar that will hang in my workshop for the following year. As I decide which photos to include in the calendar, it gives me a chance to reflect on the year, the guitars I have built or worked on, the people I have met and the videos […]