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Waghorn Guitars is a comprehensive guitar workshop specializing in handmade custom acoustic and electric guitars and basses, located in Bristol, England. We pride ourselves on making the finest quality guitars and basses using the highest quality timbers and hardware available. Fill out a custom quote form or contact us to discuss your ideas. If you don't want to wait for a custom build or would like to see our work in the flesh, see what guitars we currently have in stock ready for sale. Waghorn Guitars also carries out high quality repair work and are a retailer of replacement guitar components such as pickups, bridges and tuning machines, everything you might need to upgrade or restore your instrument. See our Repair and Upgrades page for details. Our in-house guitar technician provides a fast and reliable guitar setup service, for details see our Setups page. Electric Gallery Update Jun 2013 Recently completed is this seven string RR style neck-thru V, loaded with a Seymour Duncan Distortion in the bridge and a SSL-5 single coil in the neck. Featuring a 5-piece plain maple and walnut neck with Swamp Ash wings, this is the first V we have produced with our new ergonomic sculpted neck-through heel for a killer combination of effortless upper fret access and neck balance. Finished off in gloss black with an Original Floyd Rose tremolo. » Electric Guitar Gallery Quantum V7 demo video Apr 2013 Josh McMorran of UK death metal outfit Bloodshot Dawn has posted this video of a demo song play-through on his 7 string Quantum V with an introduction his guitar and the rest of his gear. » Multimedia Sauria B6 Apr 2013 We've added a new bass to the Bass Gallery a monsterous 6 string Sauria Bass, featuring a Swamp Ash body, Ziracote top, a 5-piece Plain Maple and Wenge bolt-on neck, hardware from ABM and Gotoh and powered by a Delano MC 6 pickup. Alex Hutchings AH8 Model Feb 2013 Waghorn Guitars is proud to announce the launch of our new AH8 model 8 string guitar developed in collaboration with fusion guitarist Alex Hutchings. The AH8 is available with a number of customizable options including bridge type and scale length, and are made to order on a first-come-first-serve basis. For more information see the full specification here: » Waghorn AH8. Kronos 7 String Jan 2013 We've added another guitar to our current stock, this one a budget oil-finished Kronos 7 string featuring a one-piece Mahogany body in 'worn black', DiMarzio D-Activator pickups plus an ETS fixed bridge and Gotoh SG machineheads. The Kronos design has also been updated slightly with an asymmetrical body carve and deeper horn scalloping to allow greater upper fret access and bring it in line with our other models. This guitar also sees the introduction of a new type of Set-Neck join available on the Kronos and Corax, the increasingly popular glued-tenon join in conjunction with an 'all-access' carved heel - for those who want the upper fret access of a through-neck construction but without the price tag or removal of too much body tonewood. » Stock Guitars. Acoustic Guitar Gallery Updates Dec 2012 The last guitar of 2012 is another unusual build for us; a Hydra with a Quilted Sequoia (redwood) top, figured Walnut back and sides bound in Koa. The 3-piece Flamed Maple and Koa neck feature a custom asymmetrical neck profile, and the lack of inlay and purfling on the fingerbaord and body let the figured woods speak for themselves. Finished off with Gotoh 510 tuners and an LR Baggs pickup system. The first acoustic guitar to leave the workshop in a while is a fairly unusual beast; a multi-scale 'fanned fret' mini-jumbo nylon strung classical guitar complete with a cutaway. The customer utilises the low E and A strings tuned an octave lower to accompany his playing with bass lines, and the longer bass-side scale is intended to reduce the string tension problems experienced when tuning low with a standard single-scale guitar, in conjunction with some custom string guages. The birdeye maple neck, back and sides is finished off with Schaller machineheads and a Headway classical pickup. » Acoustic Gallery Electric Guitar Gallery Update Nov 2012 Early November has seen the completion of some more electric guitars, including an overtly metal neck-through 'aged/relic' LP with a Schaller Floyd Rose tremolo, Bare Knuckle Nailbomb pickups and custom graphics. Also finished (and looking less abraided) is a Double Cut variation with a quilted maple top finished in Aegean blue and Seymour Duncan '59 pickups. A new demo song of the 8 string Corax is now available on our Multimedia page - for more information including the full specification and pricing see the Guitars In Stock page. Electric Guitar Gallery Update Oct 2012 The 8 string Corax is now complete. Featuring the same Wenge/Paduak/Maple multi-laminate neck-through construction as the seven string finished last month, this fixed bridge 29.3" scale monster is fitted with Lundgren M8 pickups which provide amazing clarity in the low registers and an exceptionally well rounded mid-range. Gotoh tuners sit on the Kronos 4-a-side headstock, bound in Padauk. The Flamed Maple top and Alder body feature our 'worn' black satin finish. This guitar will shortly be available for sale, keep an eye on the Stock Guitars page. » Electric Guitar Gallery Electric Guitar Gallery Update Oct 2012 Regular visitors to our Facebook page will be familiar with work-in-progress photos of a neck-through Sauria, the neck and body top made from the customer's own 150 year old Mahogany table. It's now finished and completed with 'Vintage Copper' finish Schaller hardware and 'camo' covered Bareknuckle pickups. » Electric Guitar Gallery Stock Electrics Video Review Sep 2012 The chaps at Sonicstate.com have conducted a double video review of the Kronos and Brazilian rosewood Double cut six-strings currently available on our Stock Guitars page. The Corax is Born Aug 2012 The first of two prototype Corax models is now finished, a 26.5" scale, neck-through seven string with an Original Floyd Rose tremolo, a single Seymour Duncan Invader in the bridge position and a very streaky Macassar Ebony top. The ebony fingerboard is inlayed with aluminum and bound in Padauk. It's 8 string brother is also nearing completion. » Electric Guitar Gallery Alex Hutchings Custom Electric Jul 2012 We have spent the last 6 months designing and building a custom guitar for jazz/fusion guitarist Alex Hutchings. Alex has played a big part in the design process to ensure that the guitar meets his needs. » Waghorn AH6. Electric Guitar Gallery Update Jun 2012 The Electric gallery has been updated with a neck-through seven string Quantum V for Josh of Bloodshot Dawn. The photos say it all, but see our Facebook page for a videos of it in action. » Electric Guitar Gallery Guitars In Stock June 2012 A new stock Double Cut model in Swamp Ash/Brazilian Rosewood is now available for sale. See the Stock Guitars page for the full specification and plenty of photos. The first of two prototypes of our new Corax model (the first an 8 string, the second a 7) will also be ready shortly. Check our Facebook page for work in progress photos. Acoustic Guitar Gallery Updates May 2012 The Acoustic Guitar Gallery has been updated with a 000-style in cocobolo and a rosewood J45-style. » Acoustic Guitar Gallery Sauria Electric Model, Gallery and Guitars In Stock Updates May 2012 The prototype for the latest Waghorn electric model, the Sauria has been completed and you can find photos in the the Electric Gallery. The Sauria is available for sale along with a slowly increasing number of stock guitars for our showroom available to try out. Keep an eye on the Guitars In Stock page for updates and additions over the coming weeks. New Sound Clips of an Old Guitar Apr 2012 Bristol session guitarist Kit Morgan has kindly sent us some recordings of his 2006 Waghorn Hydra which you can play or download from our Multimedia page. You can also read his thoughts on his maple Hydra as well as feedback from some of our other customers on our Testimonials page. Guitars In Stock Mar 2012 The prototype Kronos is now available for sale! Take a look at the Stock Guitars page for the full specification. Details of three other electric guitars including the prototype Sauria model that we will be finishing shortly have also been posted. These will also to be available for sale off-the-peg. Bass Guitar Gallery Update Mar 2012 The Bass Gallery has been updated with a custom 6 string J-style bass. The typical Waghorn 5-piece neck construction (maple and bubinga - this time with two dual-action truss rods) bolted onto a chambered alder body allowed us to build a strong six string bass and yet retain as much of the classic jazz sound as possible, with the help of Custom spaced Aero pickups. Lightweight Hipshot machineheads combined with modified body geometry ensures a perfectly balanced instrument with no nosediving. Acoustic & Electric Guitar Gallery Updates Mar 2012 Just finished is a custom chambered body Double Cut in tobacco burst featuring Kinsman electronics, ETS individual bridges and Sperzel locking tuners. Check out the Electric Gallery for more photos. Also completed is another maple Mini-Jumbo acoustic, this time flamed maple with white binding and custom headstock and fingerboard inlays. Take a look at the Acoustic Guitar Gallery for more photos. Electric Guitar Gallery Update Feb 2012 Just finished is this semi-hollow body 'Supa' Tele in metallic lilac! Complete with DiMarzio pickups, Wilkinson tremolo, Sperzel locking tuners, chrome hardware and white binding. check out the Electric Gallery for more photos - and post your comments via Facebook. Acoustic Guitar Gallery Update Feb 2012 We have as ever been busy working on several custom instruments over the last few weeks including this recently finished Mini-Jumbo acoustic in Birdseye Maple complete with a custom headstock inlay. Take a look at the Acoustic Guitar Gallery for more photos. New Electric Designs Nov 2011 We have recently completed the prototype for the first of two new carved-top electric guitar designs; Kronos and Sauria. Kronos is our take on the modern super-strat while Sauria features a quirky, offset double-cut design. Both designs are available for custom order to your own wood and hardware specification, check out the Electrics page for more information.