It is good to have a hobby and mine is making guitars and stringed instruments. As I say it is just a hobby so don't go looking for a buy button. Most of the instruments here are made from bits and bobs that have come from the local DIY store so they are folk instruments in the most basic sense of the word, made from whatever comes to hand.

 

Rough cut neck and sides for an electric guitar.

 

The neck takes as long to make as the rest of the instrument. Now the

head has been shaped, the fret slots cut, the fingerboard attached and

the pick up bays cleared.

 

Glue it all together and drill out the electronics bay using Fostener bits.

 

The finished instrument. "Black Beauty."

 

Semi acoustic, chambered guitar.

 

A headless mahogany guitar called the Flying Squirrel.

 

A fretted lyre.

 

A dumpy little acoustic.

 

Looks a  bit Irish to me.

 

And now for something completely different.

These are based on the Welsh Crwyth which was an early ancestor of the violin.

 

A thin bodied acoustic known as the Holy 7.

 

The Angelfish, probably my best sounding instrument.

 

That is it for now but my next project is a harpsichord!

 

God bless.

John