by Caz | Mar 19, 2011 | !Bailey Guitars, News and Events
The imminent launch of the new website means it is time to announce the winners of the Name a Bailey Guitar competition. Thanks everyone for your patience- this has taken a lot longer than anticipated but we are finally ready to launch the new site on Monday. Scroll...
by Caz | Mar 18, 2011 | Build Your Own, Build Your Own Guitar, Guitar Making Students
Ten piece, ‘five pointed star’- Abalone and Mother of Pearl The Idea We recently had Fiona on our build your own acoustic guitar course and she had an idea for an inlay design for the 12th fret. I had to make a blog about this because we discovered a...
by Caz | Mar 17, 2011 | !Bailey Guitars, Bass guitars, Custom, Custom guitars
…Work continues on the one string wonder… Individual string saddle with piezo pickup, acoustic preamp, and midi circuit The neck is now ready for inlays and frets Carving the neck Checking the shape with a 12″ radius gauge Perfecting the shape with a...
by Caz | Mar 16, 2011 | !Bailey Guitars, Artists, Custom guitars, Electric guitars
…Installing the truss rod… I was asked recently how I install the truss rod. There are many types of rod design each suiting a different style of guitar. The method outlined below is for necks with ‘parallel’ headstocks only. This is not the...
by Caz | Mar 16, 2011 | !Bailey Guitars, Artists, Custom guitars, Electric guitars
…Choosing the wood and making the blanks… Alec is the front man (guitars and voice) for West coast band Skerryvore. He visited at the weekend to finalise the drawing and spec for his new Bailey Custom. He drew his own headstock shape it will be a unique...