Hi Guys
Just thought I'd do a quick intro post, Grainger Guitars consists of Myself (Darren) and my brother (Gavin). We make guitars, Basses and hardware here in Rutland, UK. We're engineers by trade so manufacturing things has been the day job for 20 years and about 3-4 years ago began putting the odd kit guitar and messing around modding our own guitars and some re-finishing, then approx 18 months ago we decided to have a go at making a full guitar..............turned out well and thing have gone from there. We have a small range of four of our own guitar designs and one bass design and have made a handful of custom builds to customer requirements. As engineers we have an extensive range of modern manufacturing gear at our disposal (as I own an engineering company) and started to make our own hardware 12 months ago which is available online (www.graingerguitarparts.com), we fit our own hardware to our builds with exception of the tuners as we haven't developed our own yet
I'll post some build pics when I figure out how to :-/
Cheers
Darren
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Thanks for taking the time to join and introduce yourself / yourselves.
Just had a quick look at the website and it's great to see some properly designed-here, engineered-here hardware rather than the usual "made in China" or "not available from the US" options that we have to choose from.
There's a great opportunity to engineer some interestingly different variations on the standard parts - even if its just simple stuff like jack socket plates, cavity covers, etc.
So, welcome!
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the font on the website's "our story" page is a real pita to read though!!
I noticed your return policy doesn't actually comply with EU regulations though, so you'll want to extend that to do so.
About posting pics, have a read here:
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/54241/posting-pics-vids-soundclips-how-to
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/76667/tip-re-posting-photos-using-an-ipad-possibly-iphones-too-dropbox
You can post anything you like in the Test thread (to avoid endless "can you see this?" posts in your first thread here):
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/17284/test-posts
Very nice.
Look forward to seeing a T Bridge in the future.
I'd agree on the website comments - generally good but the use of all-caps text is darned tricky to read.
The knobs are nice too - always good to have more options that aren't basic Tele style or ridiculously overpriced.
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