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Any questions let me know but if you wanted a mini bio on me:
I'm a cabinetmaker of 10 years experience, I run a small furniture making business out of my workshop in Poole. I've made all kinds of wooden objects over the years but the majority has been fine furniture for the domestic market, with some high end shop fitting sprinkled in. Over the past year or so I've developed a love for making guitars and it soon became apparent that I wanted to give it a go at doing it commercially.
As I don't know the exact rules of self promotion on here I'll save the waxing poetic about the Model 1 but anythign you want to know I'm here!
Elliott
Interesting, I can imagine that makes for some fine guitar woodwork. Are you also a guitar player? I ask because some of the finer points of fretwork, setup etc may work better if you are!
He uses Bare Knuckle pickup too!
Only joking, it looks great:)
https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/207820/ian-elson-guitars-avoid/p1
not because I think for one second that is what you will do. There is lots of good discussion around some of the pitfalls in that thread and the one linked to it.
You have a good design there.
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I certainly have a head start having all the machinery that's required and the fundamental knowledge in fine woodwork finishes is undeniably useful! Thankfully I am a guitar player, which has certainly aided in being able to get a nice setup. Further to this I've also had the guitar with well established techs and had much more experienced players than me have a go!
This is my current main focus, I'm just finishing up two demo models for dealers/pass around. I also am making one for a wonderful musician named Katie Harkin who has kindly offered to do some demo videos for me.
One thing I've learned in my time making things is to not get too in the mire slagging off other makers, but what I will say is this - if I delivered furniture with those levels of fit and finish issues I wouldn't be in business. I'm incredibly hard on myself and even the slightest mistake would mean I'd have to start over.
The fit and finish really is everything for me, I'm going for the wonderful smooth fret ends like little ball bearings, the eased edge on the fretboard, perfect alignment of mating surfaces (ie. neck to body at the heel).
Thanks for the heads up! I'll get on this.
Thanks again chaps and you can see more behind the scenes stuff on my instagram, http://instagram.com/trentguitars
Guitars look lovely.
@trentguitars have you done any with JM trem? I feel as if that trem and humbuckers would give me all sorts of warm fuzzy feelings…
That's very kind of you to say, thank you! We worked (the guitar is designed in collaboration with a dear friend of mine and a much better guitarist) on the control locations tirelessly. From the beginning we really wanted a metal plate as we both love that on the Jaguar and Tele. We went through looking into having custom plates made but I really do try to keep the process as in house as I can (the plates would need to be waterjet cut then nickel plated). We found that the early p-bass cover we have used on the final product really works for it and is readily available.
Thank you so much that means a lot, we tried really hard to get the vibe right for it!
I would love to do one with a JM trem, it would mean I would have to incorporate a bit of neck angle but that's not too much of an issue. The main thing at the moment though is the stock issues with Mastery - very hard to get hold of right now. I would definitely be interested to do one with a strat trem, but for now the hardtail is a solid platform to launch on.
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Yeah - I love their guitars, but I feel their plate is iconic to their models and I do prefer a nickel plate over aluminium.