Lap Steel 1 day £125
A great entry to instrument building if you have limited or no woodworking experience. Working with recycled wood, reused parts and scrap materials where possible you will build an simple open tuned instrument to play slide guitar.
Typically 5 or 6 hours over a single day.
Cigar Box Guitar 2 day £200
A more complicated build. All parts are supplied but there's the opportunity to incorporate, where possible, any parts you may have. Choose to build a 3 or 4 string, fretted or slide, electric or acoustic Cigar Box Guitar. Typically 10 to 12 hours over 2 days (can be non consecutive).
Appalachian Dulcimer 2 day £200
Most fretted instruments originating in European cultures have a fully chromatic fretboard, meaning that all 12 notes in an octave are available. while this is very versatile, allowing the instrument to be played in any key without retuning, it does mean that for each key a third of the available notes are 'wrong'. With a diatonic fretboard , the dulcimer allows you to play only the 8 notes that make up a particular key and thus avoid the possibility of playing 'wrong' ones.
Guitar Setup half day £60
Learn how to setup your Electric, Acoustic or Bass guitar. Bring your own preferred set of strings or pre-order a set from us. Typically 3 to 4 hours.