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Documents the various guitar builds and ongoing adventures in luthiery that is Fires Creek Guitars in Holgate, NSW, Australia.

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Wednesday, 4 January 2017

Jazz Bass: Bringing the Shine

Finally got an hour or two to myself after the chaos of the Christmas season. I put it to good use, polishing the body of my Jazz Bass buil...

Tuesday, 6 December 2016

Jazz Bass: To Cover on Not to Cover

Decisions, decisions. Ok, so I'm not a bass player. I'm not even much of a guitar player. So when I make decisions about hardwar...

Monday, 5 December 2016

Flamed Starcaster: Headstock Flair

More work on the Starcaster headstock this week. Since there is no shaping required this time around, as a homage to the original Starcast...

Wednesday, 30 November 2016

12 String Telecaster - Jangles a Go-Go

Well, she's been finished for a month or two now, but today I finally had time to take some photos of my trans-black 12-string Telecast...

Monday, 28 November 2016

Jeremy's Mahogany Les Paul: Neck Re-radius and Re-fret

Hi ho everybody, I'm continuing my run of posts with an update on my Les Paul build for Jeremy over at http://guitargas.com . Unfortuna...

Jazz Bass: Headstock Shaping and Tru-Oil for the Neck

Sorry guys, it's been a long, long time since I posted any updates on any builds to this little bloggerino. Unfortunately I've been...

Friday, 24 June 2016

Flamed Starcaster: Side Finish

With the burst looking great on the front and back of the Starcaster build, the more I looked at it, the less pleased I was with how the dy...

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