Just a quick post to highlight the gallery showcasing some of the handmade guitars. While I’m getting the new site ready to go live you can head to Flickr to see more pics.
All posts in category Hand Crafted Guitars
The Creamery – Custom Guitar Photo Gallery
Posted by The Creamery on March 8, 2010
http://www.at-the-creamery.co.uk/blog/hand-crafted-guitars/the-guitar-photo-gallery/
The Blackguard Series No.3 – The Plank
Taking inspiration from the phrase, “The Telecaster: The Plank That Made Good” please be upstanding ‘Blackguard Three’. The dry pine was such good wood, with such great tonal characteristics I couldn’t let any go to waste – hence ‘The Plank’ , or the nickname that seems to have stuck, ‘The Mutt’. The obvious choice of guitar to build with these offcuts was a Telecaster style. It just seemed the right thing to do. So here it is in all its ragged glory – Blackguard Three: A telecaster style guitar with handwound pickups and the bite & twang you’d expect.
Posted by The Creamery on March 8, 2010
http://www.at-the-creamery.co.uk/blog/hand-crafted-guitars/the-blackguard-series-no-3-the-plank/
Blackguard One Jazzmaster Style Guitar – Tech Specs.
The first in a series of 6 guitars carved from a 30yr old pine. Introducing No.1 – Based on the famous Jazzmaster shape. 2 Custom, scatterwound humbuckers with chrome plated nickel H-covers. Gotoh bridge & stoptail. 1 tone, 1 volume, 3 way switching. CTS pots & vintage capacitor. Body treated with nothing more then Danish oil.
Posted by The Creamery on February 28, 2010
http://www.at-the-creamery.co.uk/blog/hand-crafted-guitars/blackguard-one-jazzmaster-style-guitar-tech-specs/
Introducing the Dirty Northern Town – A Tele take on the Les Paul Jnr.
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.
Posted by The Creamery on February 18, 2010
http://www.at-the-creamery.co.uk/blog/hand-crafted-guitars/introducing-the-dirty-northern-town-a-tele-take-on-the-les-paul-jnr/
The Blackguard Series – 6 Guitars from 30yr old pine
The first in a series of 6 guitars carved from a 30yr old pine. Introducing No.1 – Based on the famous Jazzmaster shape. 2 Custom, scatterwound humbuckers with chrome plated nickel H-covers. Gotoh bridge & stoptail. 1 tone, 1 volume, 3 way switching. CTS pots & vintage capacitor. Body treated with nothing more then Danish oil.
Posted by The Creamery on February 14, 2010
http://www.at-the-creamery.co.uk/blog/hand-crafted-guitars/the-blackguard-series-6-guitars-from-30yr-old-pine/
Butcher’s Block Telecaster – Specs
There was just something about it. When tapped it had that ‘ring’, that sound that was far more than the usual dull thud you get with many woods. Maybe its the many blocks of birch laminated together under pressure. Maybe its the 40mm thickness. Maybe, maybe, maybe. One thing’s for sure – it sounds good.
Posted by The Creamery on February 8, 2010
http://www.at-the-creamery.co.uk/blog/guitars/butchers-block-telecaster-specs/
The Butcher’s Block Telecaster
There was just something about it. When tapped it had that ‘ring’, that sound that was far more than the usual dull thud you get with many woods. Maybe its the many blocks of birch laminated together under pressure. Maybe its the 40mm thickness. Maybe, maybe, maybe. One thing’s for sure – it sounds good.
Posted by The Creamery on February 3, 2010
http://www.at-the-creamery.co.uk/blog/hand-crafted-guitars/the-butchers-block-telecaster/
Introducing The Fencepost Guitar – Made from an old sentimental piece of wood
Hand made from an old fencepost with scatterwound vintage 40yr old 43AWG coil wire in our C001 Custom Creamery Hot Tele Bridge, wired to The Creamery’s own twist on the original Fender electronics with a .0047uf cap where the resistor should sit – this is essentially the same as the ‘Eldred Mod’ giving the out-of-phase or cocked-wah sound in the front position. The growl and snap is helped along by the wood, an old sentimental piece of pine fencepost that lay drying out for twenty years.
Posted by The Creamery on January 19, 2010
http://www.at-the-creamery.co.uk/blog/hand-crafted-guitars/introducing-the-fencepost-guitar-made-from-an-old-sentimental-piece-of-wood/