February 2010

1 day holiday closure

Workshop will be closed on Tuesday 9th Feb

We will be open again on Weds - business as usual

January 2010

January workshop special

With all our lovely custom built guitars, it would be easy to overlook the fantastic guitar repairs and upgrades that we do.

Let us help you get the most from your existing guitar with one of our range of repair or upgrade services.

Book your electric or acoustic in for a repair and we'll supply the strings for FREE
* Check out our repairs section HERE

Don't forget we that offer a FREE guitar health check for all guitars

*excludes simple restring jobs or bass guitars
(we'll happily give you a set of Feline electric guitar strings if you book in a bass guitar)

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Win some Feline strings here

We are also running a great fun caption contest on the Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum to win 3 sets of our feline branded strings . Click on the strings pic below to have a look.

September

Finally finished a guitar that I had wanted to build for a while
I wanted to make a version of our Lion model that could take a pair of BKP Emerald pickups ( as they were based on the pickups in a 70s LP Custom (Think Brian Robertson/ Thin Lizzy and hence the track : Emerald)

It is slightly thinner than a full bodied Lion so the weight is more manageable.
We used a maple top that had some birdseyes on it - understated but pretty
It has our all access neck of course.
Hardware is our current fave mix of Sperzel tuners, Earvana nut, TonePros bridge and locking tailpiece studs and an aluminium tailpiece.
I wanted to make it an Emerald Green of course and the block inlays feature a nice stripe of abalone that has a lot of green shades in it . Even the knobs are green tinted abalone on top

August

Well - the Lion that I spoke of a couple of months ago got snapped up by one of my regular customers .

Here is another that I had in the pipeline , and I decided to repeat the colour scheme - the picture can't quite capture how she looks in reality as the flame is one of those that moves as the light falling on the guitar moves so it has a 3D effect- very nice.

She's loaded up with Bareknuckle Mules and as ever features the Earvana compensated tuning system, TonePros bridge and locking studs with an aluminium tailpiece, whilst tuning duties are handled by Sperzel locking heads.

The neck joint is my usual all access joint which many of you are familiar with already, and the neck is my usual 3 piece construction for added strength and rigidity.
The fretboard is macassar ebony and it has huge Dunlop 6000 fretwire.
I used some Vitamin Q capacitors with the usual CTS pots and the tones are just great

June

In a rare bit of wheeling and dealing I reacquired a guitar I built and sold 6 years ago.
It was a guitar that I had originally built with myself in mind and had scheduled to also get it reviewed in Guitar Buyer magazine, but was persuaded by a customer to sell it to him. Whilst it's obviously been played and enjoyed it has also been kept in pristine condition and plays as well as the day it left here - if not a bit better as the whole guitar has settled down and matured a bit over the last few years.

It's a great guitar and got some nice praise in the magazine with the only criticism being that the logo that we had been using at the time was out of character with the classic lines of the guitar - we had been trying to have a logo that didn't make people think we were trying to look like Fender- not easy with a 6 letter name starting with a letter "F" and contining two letter E's and a tall letter in the middle ! However over time people have started to recognise the Catseye logo a lot more and this has allowed us to use a script logo in conjunction with that recognisible motif and have a more classic look.

So this guitar will recieve some interesting upgrades and modifications- we have already swapped out the Seymour Duncan pickups for some Bare Knuckle Riff Raffs and upgraded the Tone capacitors to Vitamin Q (oil and paper ) types.
Next up will be an Earvana Compensated tuning nut, some Tonepros locking hardware with possibly an aluminium tailpiece for a more vintage vibe and of course a change of logos on the headstock to our current preferred look.

Then I may be locking myself away for some serious playing time !

More product news......and it's a biggie!

Floyd Rose trems are back in UK circulation and we have decided to be a main dealer and stock them in significant quantities. We also intend to stock a wide range of spares and Floyd Rose related accessories.
We are planning to do a separate offshoot website for all aspects of Floyd Rose related stuff
We have them in stock now - prices shown below

We can get any variants in to order if not listed here......

Bridges currently in stock

42mm sustain block

R2 nut as standard - can be changed to suit

Pricing
Chrome £149 for trem (+£20 for locknut if sold together)
Black £159 for trem (+£20 for locknut if sold together)
Gold £179 for trem (+£20 for locknut if sold together)

New string gauge joins our popular range

We are pleased to announce that we have added another gauge of British made strings to our popular range:

Say hello to the Feline Legs Eleven set -

As before artwork is from the talented Vince Ray

As well as featuring one of his sexy cat girls we couldn't resist putting a bit of Spinal Tap influenced humour in there

Prices will be sensible with good pricing on 10 sets or more

We have also had matching t-shirts made and carry them in all sizes from Small to XXXL

Please note that all images are copyright and property of feline Guitars and may not be reproduced without permisssion.

By all means link to them in guitar newsgroups or forums in a positive and appropriate manner - but no bootlegging - OK!