Posts tagged flamed maple

Mahogany Body Blank

Bailey Custom Bandsman- Norwegian Wood

Feb 20th

Posted by Mark in Custom guitars

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I once had some wood, or should I say, it once had me…

Kristian ordered his custom Bandsman through our online shop from the comfort of his home in Norway. We have many guitars all over the world but this will be a one of a kind in the country where it is going. A search through the wood room turned up these particularly stunning pieces. You can watch this guitar being made as I will make regular progress updates here on the blog. I can’t wait to see it myself!

Body wood

The back of the body is a single piece of mahogany and will be capped with Flame Maple.

Neck wood

The neck is a perfectly quartersawn single piece of Mahogany with an Ebony fretboard, headstock veneer and truss rod cover.

Inlays

No front dots- Mother of Pearl side dots only

Mother of Pearl Bailey Logo on headstock

Hardware

Tuners and bridge will be Gotoh 510′s chrome finish.

Pickups

Bareknuckle P90′s – A ‘Blue Note’ in the neck position and a ‘Nantucket’ for the bridge pickup, with Ebony pick up covers.

Finish

Tobacco burst all over with satin lacquer


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BYO-295

Build Your Own Custom Guitar – 27 Aug to 4 Sept – BYO-295

Nov 9th

Posted by Mark in Build Your Own

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Kevin pushes the boundaries with his first guitar made on our Build Your Own Custom Guitar Course.

Kevin made his first guitar on a recent build your own custom course here at the Bailey Workshop. It took seven days to create this instrument from raw blocks of wood which shows you just what is possible on our course. He wanted a neck thru, carved top, electric guitar with ‘flame orange’ maple cap and custom girl inlay on the headstock and custom lettering on the 12th fret, so his design really pushed the boundaries of what is possible, but he was a very fast worker!

He chose to have a humbucker (with a coil cut built into the tone control) at the bridge, and a P90 in the neck position. This gives a wide range of tones at the flick of a switch.

To save time the inlays were made by our good friends at Small Wonder, so all Kevin had to do was inlay the ready made ‘girl’ shape into the headstock and the letters into the fretboard. Incidentaly we asked for just mother of pearl but Mike at Small wonder couldn’t help himself from making the shoes red!

Thankfully Kevin liked it like that, and I had to agree Mike was right…

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assembling the guitar

Build your own custom guitar – BYO 298 – Dave Fletcher

Oct 31st

Posted by Mark in Build Your Own

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…Dave’s second guitar made on our course…

Dave came on a recent build your own custom guitar course at the Bailey workshop and made this beauty, which he then left with us for spraying. This was just before we got our new UV lacquer system so we used traditional nitro-cellulose which takes 8-12 weeks to spray and polish. He is the last of the bunch to come and assemble his guitar after circumstances prevented him from finishing on the same day as Kevin.

The guitar has a stunning flamed maple cap with a custom colour that Dave chose for the sunburst.

The pickups are ‘Throbak’s‘ – handmade in the USA and sounded awesome. There is an extra switch which adds an out of phase option.

Crown inlays, a distinctive headstock inlay, and binding around the fretboard and headstock were all made here by Dave himself adding to the totally custom look.

This is the second guitar Dave has made on our course- his first was an Archtop with the same headstock inlay. Dave has made two of the most stunning instruments ever on our course.

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Manuel's 'new wife'

Bailey Custom Electric – Manuel – P3

Oct 11th

Posted by Mark in Custom guitars

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Manuel’s ‘new wife’ is a stunner!

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This is a milestone for Bailey Guitars- Our first guitar to be finished with UV lacquer! As you can see it looks fantastic but there is more to it than just appearances.

This guitar is based on Manuel’s first guitar – he got it when he was nineteen and it is now just about played to destruction. I measured it very carefully so it should feel exactly the same if he closes his eyes, until he goes up the high end, as this new one has a modified neck joint to allow better access to the higher frets. Of course the super smooth feel of the new UV finish will give it away but I’m sure he’ll get used to that.

The wiring was customised to Manuel’s requirements: one volume, one tone control, a five way pickup selector switch and a mini switch. The tone control is also a push/pull switch which turns off one of the coils in the humbucker and the mini switch activates the neck pickup whatever position the 5 way selector is in. This enables neck and bridge single coils to be on at the same time. The fancy jack socket plate definitely adds a touch of class and was supplied along with all the other parts by Manuel himself.

Manuel is a great player and has become a great friend also, so it was a pleasure to build this instrument for him. I look forward to seeing him play it soon and I hope he finds with his ‘new wife’ another long and happy relationship!

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F-hole

Build your own custom guitar – kevin – BYO 297

Sep 26th

Posted by Mark in Build Your Own

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Wine red, single cut, with f-hole

Kevin came on Saturday to complete the guitar he started back in June. As he had wanted a gloss he’d had to leave it with us for spraying then come back to assemble, wire up, fret dress and set up the guitar.

As usual it was a full day with couple of hitches but we got there in the end as we always do!

This was Kevin’s third instrument to be built on our course! – last time he made this bass.


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