Chapman Guitars at NAMM

Philly_Q

Plectrum said:

Does anyone know of any luthier in this country who has an operation large enough to build 15 high-end guitars per month? That's presumably in addition to the commissions they get under their own name.

Gordon Smith (Auden)?  Not saying they are high-end....

Jack_

He looks smug as fuck in those photos.

Babones

Bridgehouse said:

Hang on, if the Chinese do a cheap fake knock off version of these, a la Chibson, what the hell are we going to call them??!!

Xiapman.

Chalky

Chapman is a genius at getting folks talking about his guitars. He's got 9 pages of comments so far on this thread alone...

guitarfishbay

Chalky said:

Chapman is a genius at getting folks talking about his guitars. He's got 9 pages of comments so far on this thread alone...

The company Facebook page has over 65,000 likes.

Musicman20

Chalky said:

Chapman is a genius at getting folks talking about his guitars. He's got 9 pages of comments so far on this thread alone...

Of course most publicity is good publicity, but who actually owns a Chapman?

ThorpyFX

Bucket said:

Though I will say that anyone questioning Eggle's relaunch as a really high-end builder needs to play one of the new ones. Wow.

I own three PJE Guitars since he stopped making acoustics. I’m friends with Patrick and have just spent 7 days at the NAMM show sharing a booth with him. His guitars are among the best in the world, and lots of people, dealers and other luthiers agree from what I saw in the booth.

antifash

@ThorpyFX Care to share a NAMM highlight, chap?

Nikc

Musicman20 said:

Chalky said:

Chapman is a genius at getting folks talking about his guitars. He's got 9 pages of comments so far on this thread alone..

Of course most publicity is good publicity, but who actually owns a Chapman?

A quick companies house search (Done a while ago) shows thats Rob Chapman and Lee Anderton own it. 

fields5069

mbe said:

15 guitars per month is do-able if all parts and materials are available and everything is farmed out to specialists. Luthier, finisher, assembler, packer. Job done

Don't forget pickup winder.

dbphoto

Nikc said:

Musicman20 said:

Chalky said:

Chapman is a genius at getting folks talking about his guitars. He's got 9 pages of comments so far on this thread alone..

Of course most publicity is good publicity, but who actually owns a Chapman?

A quick companies house search (Done a while ago) shows thats Rob Chapman and Lee Anderton own it. 

I think that’s common knowledge, especially as they are quite happy telling folk all the time.

The question was who actually owns one of their guitars though?

Musicman20

Nikc said:

Musicman20 said:

Chalky said:

Chapman is a genius at getting folks talking about his guitars. He's got 9 pages of comments so far on this thread alone..

Of course most publicity is good publicity, but who actually owns a Chapman?

A quick companies house search (Done a while ago) shows thats Rob Chapman and Lee Anderton own it. 

Sorry I meant who on here has bought a guitar. I’m being 100% honest in that if they offered a more traditional/less obviously metal shred guitar I’d be tempted to buy one....but in the £1000 Pro range there is stiff competition. 

ThorpyFX

antifash said:

@ThorpyFX Care to share a NAMM highlight, chap?

Yeah, amp wise for me it was probably the two rock stand. Their Bloomfield amp is just glorious in tone and looks. Guitar wise, seeing Nik Huber’s exotic builds and meeting them was a personal highlight. The surprise for me was realising how great some of these luthiers really are.

Two that spring to mine are Koll Guitars who had some really cool original builds as well as a Marshall half stack owned by Neil Young that they cranked to full volume on the last day.

i met the Frank Brothers, their guitars are absolutely flawless and astonishing in equal measure. With original shapes, cool headstocks and the fact that they are cool dudes too I’m sorely tempted.

effects wise the Empress Zoia looked like something I’d enjoy.

Finally it’s really hard to explain how cool it is meeting so many artists, legends and dealers from all over the world. Just the best experience and sharing a booth with pat was an absolute pleasure.

anyway I’m signed up to go again, I have tickets available for anyone that can front the airfare cost and who wants to visit. So next time  I’ll hook people up. 

ThorpyFX

antifash said:

@ThorpyFX Care to share a NAMM highlight, chap?

Yeah, amp wise for me it was probably the two rock stand. Their Bloomfield amp is just glorious in tone and looks. Guitar wise, seeing Nik Huber’s exotic builds and meeting them was a personal highlight. The surprise for me was realising how great some of these luthiers really are.

Two that spring to mine are Koll Guitars who had some really cool original builds as well as a Marshall half stack owned by Neil Young that they cranked to full volume on the last day.

i met the Frank Brothers, their guitars are absolutely flawless and astonishing in equal measure. With original shapes, cool headstocks and the fact that they are cool dudes too I’m sorely tempted.

effects wise the Empress Zoia looked like something I’d enjoy.

Finally it’s really hard to explain how cool it is meeting so many artists, legends and dealers from all over the world. Just the best experience and sharing a booth with pat was an absolute pleasure.

anyway I’m signed up to go again, I have tickets available for anyone that can front the airfare cost and who wants to visit. So next time  I’ll hook people up. 

Musicman20

ThorpyFX said:

antifash said:

@ThorpyFX Care to share a NAMM highlight, chap?

Yeah, amp wise for me it was probably the two rock stand. Their Bloomfield amp is just glorious in tone and looks. Guitar wise, seeing Nik Huber’s exotic builds and meeting them was a personal highlight. The surprise for me was realising how great some of these luthiers really are.

Two that spring to mine are Koll Guitars who had some really cool original builds as well as a Marshall half stack owned by Neil Young that they cranked to full volume on the last day.

i met the Frank Brothers, their guitars are absolutely flawless and astonishing in equal measure. With original shapes, cool headstocks and the fact that they are cool dudes too I’m sorely tempted.

effects wise the Empress Zoia looked like something I’d enjoy.

Finally it’s really hard to explain how cool it is meeting so many artists, legends and dealers from all over the world. Just the best experience and sharing a booth with pat was an absolute pleasure.

anyway I’m signed up to go again, I have tickets available for anyone that can front the airfare cost and who wants to visit. So next time  I’ll hook people up. 

If you have any spare please let me know! I've wanted to go to NAMM for years....ahahaha!

antifash

@ThorpyFX Sounds really cool, man. Looked really good from what I saw - and nice to see you on the vids doing the rounds too! Did your new pedals get some positive attention too?

ThorpyFX

antifash said:

@ThorpyFX Sounds really cool, man. Looked really good from what I saw - and nice to see you on the vids doing the rounds too! Did your new pedals get some positive attention too?

They did indeed, people knew who we were, wanted to chat, wanted photos and it was all a really successful venture..... time will tell if it pans out with more worldwide interest which was the aim.

the scale of namm is monster. Over 12000 booths ranging in size from 10ftx10ft up to whole floors..... it boggles my mind indeed 

antifash

@ThorpyFX Ah, that explains the noise then!

Strat54

ThorpyFX said:

antifash said:

@ThorpyFX Sounds really cool, man. Looked really good from what I saw - and nice to see you on the vids doing the rounds too! Did your new pedals get some positive attention too?

They did indeed, people knew who we were, wanted to chat, wanted photos and it was all a really successful venture..... time will tell if it pans out with more worldwide interest which was the aim.

the scale of namm is monster. Over 12000 booths ranging in size from 10ftx10ft up to whole floors..... it boggles my mind indeed 

Glad you had a good show, its a great experience, not been since the late 90's but went quite a few times in the preceding years with a dealer friend. It is mind blowing and headache inducing. I'm sure it was more exciting then too because we didn't have the internet, so lots of surprises and no marauding teams of british dealers and their media crews. Back then the artists and the guitars were the stars

sherpa_man

A mate of mine after doing some Sherlock has spotted the workshop to be the Simms guitars workshop