- This year’s guitar for sale in aid of the festival – SOLD
- More Guitars on show at the festival
- Personal Selection Falstaff
- Personal Selection Tenor Guitar
- Walnut and Cedar Ariel
- 12 fret Claro Walnut and Sinker Redwood Leonardo
- African Blackwood and Torrefied Sitka Spruce Custom Slim Falstaff
- Indian Rosewood and Sitka Alexander
- Macassar Ebony Alexander
- Bog Oak and Redwood Alexander
- Second Hand Instruments
- Music at The Festival
- Julie Malia. Momentaufnahmen
- Clive Carroll. All this Time
- Tristan Seume. These Dreams
- Will McNicol with Innotet – Emma
- Hugh Burns
- Wingin’ It . Ashokan Farewell
- Sönke Meinen. Silver Lining
- John Smith. Winter
- That’s it.
This year’s guitar for sale in aid of the festival. An Orsino
This year we’ve made a guitar that we hope will have the widest appeal, based on one of our more well known and proven designs, but with a few tweaks and features to make it “Special” for this very special occasion.
It’s an Orsino, but using lightly figured Cuban Mahogany for the body rather than our usual Brazilian Mahogany. The soundboard is rather splendid Western Red Cedar with mosaic inlays.
The neck is Brazilian Mahogany with a central lamination of Ebony to match the Ebony bindings, and the 45mm wide Ebony fingerboard has simple Pearl square position markers.
Expect all the warm, resonant tone that Nic Jones and others have found so appealing.
For sale at £4,600. All proceeds will go to the festival. – SOLD
More Guitars on show at the festival.
I know that some people are visiting the festival at least partly to see these guitars, so I expect some will sell very quickly.
When the festival is over, I will feature the remaining instruments in subsequent newsletters, with full details and descriptions, so the following is just a taster.
Personal Selection Falstaff
Extraordinary Pommelle Sapele and the finest Alpine Spruce –
For Sale at £6,200 – SOLD
Personal Selection Tenor Guitar
Figured Cuban Mahogany and Englemann Spruce
For sale at £3,500 – SOLD
Walnut and Cedar Ariel
Figured Claro Walnut and Cedar. I should probably offer this combination of timbers as a standard model, as we get so many requests for it
For Sale at £4,700 – SOLD
12 fret Claro Walnut and Sinker Redwood Leonardo
Figured Claro Walnut and Redwood recovered from Big River in Mendocino
For Sale at £7,400
African Blackwood and Torrefied Sitka Spruce. Custom Slim Falstaff
An extraordinary Guitar with some features in common with the guitar we recently made for Martin Simpson.
For Sale at £9,400 – SOLD
Indian Rosewood and Sitka Alexander
This is a simplified version of the Custom Alexander that John Smith uses.
For Sale at £5,400 – SOLD
Macassar Ebony and Cedar Alexander
Last year we had a second-hand guitar on show, rather similar to this one, and everybody loved it.
For Sale at £6,800 – SOLD
Bog Oak and Redwood Alexander
I really wanted to have a Bog Oak guitar on show this year. Apart from being visually stunning, it sounds gorgeous.
For Sale at £6,900 – SOLD
Second Hand Instruments
I hope to have a number of used guitars and possibly other instruments available at very affordable prices, it’s changing constantly.
Music at The Festival
All the players at the festival are exceptional.
The artists that I know most about are, of course, those that own and play Fylde Guitars, so here is my selection of videos from our very best friends who will be there. Ullapool is where we all meet, catch up with family, hear about latest plans, hear the latest music, play pool if we get chance, and just possibly, drink a little whisky .
Julie Malia. Momentaufnahmen
Otherwise known of course as Jule Malischke, our lovely friend from Germany. A great player, lovely singer and massive fun to be with.
Can’t wait to catch up.
Clive Carroll. All this Time
Mostly, Clive plays guitars by Ralph Bown, but in some situations, he does like to switch to his Fylde. I’m not complaining.
We don’t see Clive quite so much since he has been spending half of his life in America, and I’ve no doubt we will have lots to discuss.
Tristan Seume. These Dreams
Tris loves to put 80’s music onto solo guitar, and we were both delighted when I was able to put him in touch with Nancy Wilson via our friend Julie Bergman.
Will McNicol with Innotet – Emma
I could have chosen from lots of Will’s videos, but this is one of the earliest of him playing with Innotet. They will all be at the festival this year so I thought it would be nice to use this track.
Hugh Burns
I’ve only just found this. What a lovely surprise! Hugh playing a borrowed guitar, although he does have his very own Custom Ariel at home
Wingin' It . Ashokan Farewell
Sönke Meinen. Silver Lining
Our other connection with the Acoustic guitar scene in Germany. Despite Brexit, our sales in Europe are still strong. Sönke plays mostly Nylon string guitar, so I’m not sure if he will have his Fylde with him, but I’m sure we can lend him one!!
John Smith. Winter
Our very own superstar. I hope he doesn’t mind me using this track as it is quite old, but John still plays it sometimes, and it’s one of the first things I heard him play all those years ago. John cites Richard and Colleen Lindsay and the Ullapool Festival as being the turning point from Amateur to Professional.
John has other videos and a new album waiting to feature in upcoming newsletters.
That’s it.ll.
That’s it. The hardest part is done; we just have to get there. The festival has become our only “point of sale” apart from the workshop, we don’t advertise or exhibit anywhere else, and I think we have in turn become important to the festival itself. We really do enjoy ourselves.
It’s a massive build up for us. Alex and Paul have put the hours in, and I always find it rather stressful, but the long drive through the Scottish scenery never disappoints, even in stormy weather, and the wonderful fresh air hits home as soon as we arrive.
Then we have an hour or two of very hard work arranging everything in the space provided, a few cups of tea and we can relax, knowing what is to come. Mostly I sit and talk to people, but more and more, Alex and Paul look after the guitars, and I can get to see some of the music
And that’s what it has always been about.
Oh, and the wood, did I mention the wood?
See you there!
Roger