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New Custom Build: Tribute to Neil Young's Old Black
This new custom build was specified by the customer to be a new-old-stock version of old Shakey's converted 1950s gold-top and included a...
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Leighton
Sep 19, 20231 min
What's been going on?
It's ALL been going on, ALL of the time, ALL at once, and the workshop has been overwhelmed at times. When this happens, I have to slow...
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Leighton
Jul 7, 20221 min
Latest Natural - Look Custom Builds
Here are a few recent customer builds... both single-cut body styles with reclaimed timbers, natural finishes and Evil Sheep P90 pickups....
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Leighton
Nov 28, 20211 min
Roasted Maple and Reclaimed Mahogany
This instrument was made for sale through our local friends at Southend Music Exchange. It has a reclaimed mahogany body, a...
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Leighton
Nov 28, 20211 min
Barncaster with Mojotron pickups
This is a Barncaster with two Mojotron pickups was custom made for a customer from some beautifully distressed, reclaimed pine and maple...
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Leighton
Aug 1, 20211 min
Rock'n'Roll Machine with Bigsby Vibrato and Bigsby-inspired Mojo pickups
This is one of my favourite and sweetest sounding custom builds to ever to emerge from the worksop... Body cut from a single piece of...
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Leighton
Aug 1, 20211 min
Single-Cut P90 Set Neck in Oak & Mahogany
This single cut set-neck guitar was built to order with a beautifully-grained English oak body (2-piece, made from an old unused piece of...
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Leighton
Nov 3, 20201 min
S-type Custom Build
Here is another one of our custom builds ready for shipping...
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Leighton
Jul 14, 20201 min
P90 T style - made from reclaimed Mahogany and Maple
This custom order was for a vintage T-style guitar with an Evil Sheep P90 pickup in the neck and Evil Sheep honky tonk pickup in the...
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Leighton
May 6, 20201 min
Vintage Surfer Style
Here is a pic of a recent custom build being packed for shipping. It's a left hand drive Surfer model with a reclaimed spruce body (oil...
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Leighton
May 1, 20201 min
Coronavirus Update
Although the workshop doors have been closed to customers for a few weeks now in line with UK government restrictions, work has been...
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Leighton
Jan 5, 20201 min
Happy New Year!
Happy new year to all of our customers old and new! We've been working throughout the Christmas holidays but still managed to take a few...
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Leighton
Sep 9, 20191 min
Capturing the spirit of Nancy
The legend of underrated guitarist's guitarist Roy Buchanan seems stronger than ever in 2019. He was overlooked in his lifetime, partly...
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Leighton
Jun 17, 20191 min
Latest custom builds
We've been working on some great projects recently. From restoring some beautiful 1960s archtops, to fixing a vintage violin which had...
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Leighton
Mar 11, 20191 min
Baritones have a barry tone. Aye. They do.
This Tele body was boxed up and posted to the workshop to be fitted with a bespoke baritone neck. Reclaimed mahogany was selected, with...
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Leighton
Dec 30, 20181 min
And here is another sneaky look at one of our custom orders...
This is another one of our classic looking left-hand-drive custom builds, which was built for one of our customers. It is a 2-pickup...
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Leighton
Dec 30, 20181 min
Fancy a look at one of our custom order Guitars?
This is a beautiful left-hand-drive, all-mahogany - 24" scale T type guitar which was commissioned by one of our customers. The mahogany...
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Leighton
Dec 5, 20181 min
Festive uniforms are on....
T-shirts in December? We’re working so hard to finish our Christmas custom guitar orders, that anything more than a T-shirt is just too...
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Leighton
Nov 5, 20181 min
London International Guitar Show
So...Last weekend we exhibited some of our finished guitars, as well as some vintage guitars which we'd restored. The show took place at...
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