SubscribeInside the electric guitar pt.1. The Parts List.
Category: Hand Crafted Guitars
A guitar needs a tight neck joint
The neck joint is the heart of the guitar, loose and you lose sustain and in many cases, the neck becomes unstable. With a good, well made tight neck joint a guitar will always sound better – you will hear it in the sustain.
Introducing “This Year’s Model” – Custom Jazzmaster
Introducing “This Year’s Model”, a Jazzmaster guitar from The Creamery
Introducing ‘The Alleyway’ – Custom Explorer Style
Introducing ‘The Alleyway’, a Gibson Explorer style guitar handcrafted by my own fair hands. In the US they have Bloc Parties, here in Manchester we throw open the gates and meet up in the alleyways to share stories, drink and be merry.
The Creamery Blackguard 2 – Based on a ’72 Custom Tele
The Creamery Custom Telecaster Guitars – Blackguard 2 – Based on a ’72 Custom Tele
Three Pickup Mahogany Telecaster – v.2
The original cream coloured P90 covers are now black and the middle/neck position now wired in series.
The Blackguard Series pt.1 – The First Three
Quick progress update. Here are the first three guitars from the Blackguard series – 6 guitars crafted from 30yr old pine. A jazzmaster style with custom handwound H-cover humbuckers, a Standard telecaster and a Tele Custom style, both with sets of my handwound pickups.
Three Pickup Mahogany Telecaster
Not the best looking guitar in town due to the three pickup configuration and cream P90 covers (which I’m changing to black) but the sounds you can coax from this guitar are just sweet. The heavier gauge strings, coupled with a one piece heavy mahogany body, rosewood fingerboard and fatter sounding P90 pickups rather than tele/strat types give this guitar a real warmth.
The Creamery – Custom Guitar Headstock Design
Just a quick post – Here’s a closeup pic of the headstock design. After playing around with more a few more sharper versions I finally settled on this curved variation on the traditional format.
Each headstock will have the logo, guitar name, serial number and the date on which each guitar was crafted.
Esquire Style Guitar – ‘Dirty Northern Town’
Named after a comment I overheard whilst climbing off the train at Manchester Piccadilly station, as a group of guys climbed on, eager to get back home south.
A tele take on the Les Paul Junior. Whilst waiting for a batch of parts to arrive so I could wind the single P90 needed, the guitar was wired up with an old Gibson P90 I had lying around. Eager to hear a P90 in the bridge position the old Gibson pickup was only ever meant to be temporary measure, especially as this was a neck pickup, the pole spacing too narrow for the wider telecaster bridge.
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- @rawguitardesign I'm intrigued - DM me or email blog (at sign) at-the-creamery.co.uk
- @rawguitardesign What do you have planned?
- You'll be glad to know I've scrapped the planned Ltd. Edition Royal Jubilee 'Britpop' pickup range - Too be honest, it was a sh*t idea ;-)
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