Ladies and gentleman- The Thumb buster!

Right, the harp guitar is all finished and at it's new home. Instead of putting up pictures of it outside my workshop, this time I can (hopefully) link to a video of it in action played by Paul Brett, who's idea and inspiration it was to get this thing up and running... again, the original harp guitar that this monster is based on dated from the 1890s and the concept hasn't been taken up since

It'll be on Paul's stand at the London Acoustic Guitar Show if you fancy giving it a try and I'll be hanging around too, so come and say hi!

I’ve been doing lots of repairs over the summer with plenty of variety to keep things interesting;  replacing and refretting fingerboards, crack repairs, refinishing, broken necks, loose braces, fitting bridges, new nuts, setups. I love the variety of this job!

After all the repairs, it’s nice to get started on my latest guitar. A commission for an Oxwich parlour guitar. The brief was to use as many Welsh woods as possible so I’m using Walnut for the back/sides, Sycamore for the neck, bog oak for the fingerboard and bridge, figured oak for the binding and head veneer. The soundboard is from Prince of Wales island… Alaska. To continue the welsh theme I’m inlaying a celtic knotwork rosette around the soundhole.

In beekeeping news, all 3 hives are doing well, I collected 19 jars of honey from the largest hive, they’re all medicine and fed for the winter so fingers crossed for a good year next year.

Free jar of honey for every guitar bought?
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