capricorn guitars

I tend to update my Facebook page more regularly than this site - it can be found here:

Updated: January 2011.

Wow, it's been pretty busy since my last update!

The biggest project during that time has been this:

Please click the image above for more info. It's a 1960's Watkins bass, which needs a replacement neck.

"In other news"...I've also been sorting out an Epiphone Explorer with a dodgy pickup, and there was a Gibson Les Paul which needed restringing and setting-up, oh and the Ibanez RG with the open-string buzzing....and this was fun too:

Please click the image above for more info. It's a BC Rich Warlock, which needed the headstock repaired and a full re-spray.

2011 looks set to be busy too, with several jobs in the pipeline already.

Updated: 12 August 2010.

Capricorn #2 is finished...the eXploder! This guitar is for sale - please Contact me if you're interested.

Please click the photo below to visit the page for this guitar.

Updated: 21 February 2010.

Well, the guitar pictured below is now finished. You can click the pic for more info.

Additionally, I've been making an Explorer-type guitar which is currently being painted. More on that later.

2010 sees me with plenty of little projects up and coming. Please check back for updates.

And feel free to contact me with your requirements as well!

Updated: 20 July 2009.

Here's a sneaky peeky at something which should be finished quite soon (I hope!)

Updated: 11 July 2009.

I recently became a professional member of NAMIR - the National Association of Musical Instrument Repairers.

Click the logo below to visit their website.

I also decided to give the ol' Chibanez pictured below a little more "authenticity" by scalloping the final four frets!

Before:

After:

Updated: 05 April 2009.

I have finished work on my "Project Chibanez" - a Chinese copy of an Ibanez JEM77V.

Click the photo below to visit it's own page for more pics!

Updated: 10 August 2008.

I have basically completed work on my first proper custom build: the Capricorn R7t!

It looks like this:

Click the photo to go to it's own page for full info.

I entered it into a competition in an online guitar-building forum called Project Guitar. They hold a monthly competition, open to anyone. My entry achieved 5th place, with 7 of the 107 votes cast. I was very pleased with that, considering it's my first attempt!! I also have had it nominated in a very similar monthly competition on a site called sevenstring.org, hopefully it will make it through to the final shortlisted 5 entries which are then voted for by the forum members.

And, as those of you who know me will have guessed, build #2 is already in progess! It's going to be a 6 string, shaped like a Gibson Explorer, very much along the lines of James Hetfield from Metallica's black models. Expect the body to be made of ash, with a maple neck, active EMG pickups, but I'm not sure about the bridge yet! Could be a tun-o-matic, or will I be tempted by a Floyd??