The Boatyard Guitar Workshop

As much as we love building teles, strats and juniors it is great fun when people have a desire to build something a little more ‘non-standard’. This is Pat with his first build and it’s an absolute cracker!…

John was already a very experienced and talented craftsman so it comes as no surprise that he has built this absolute stunner of an instrument…

For well over a decade now we have been making jigs and fixtures for our luthiers. Now we are making our acoustic guitar Side Bender commercially available. Here is one, packaged with a custom former, for our good friends at Xylon Guitars…

I do love a 12 fret acoustic, they can be very sweet sounding. Here is Luc with his recently finished one. This is his first acoustic build and it sounds and plays beautifully. We should do more of them…

New year new guitar… well actually Anthony finished this just before Xmas. A left handed version of the guitar made famous by Matthias Jabs of the Scorpions. This was a lot of fun to do…

Happy Holidays everybody. Huge thanks to everyone who helped make 2025 our most successful year. From those teaching to those making full builds, renting bench space or attending day courses your support is incredibly valued. Thank you. Enjoy the break and best wishes for 2026. David

Ok ok so I’m rubbish at this Social Media business. Sorry. I promise to try harder. Meanwhile here is a picture of Hugh out in the wild entertaining the crowds with the guitar he made with us. Pretty amazing for his first ever build!…

Hugh putting his recently completed J45 inspired acoustic through its paces. There is a cool story attached to this build which I’ll share in another post but right now it’s simply playing and sounding lovely…

We’ve been way too busy making guitars to spend time updating our social media but this definitely deserves a post. Richard and his cedar topped OM style acoustic. Hard to believe this is his very first build, a terrific achievement…