Designing a new guitar is one thing. Getting it made in a factory across the world is another matter entirely, even for the likes of Patrick James Eggle and the Shergold team…
You might think that once you’ve created a new guitar design, the work is done. You hit the send button to your factory of choice and a few months later a shipment of shiny guitars arrives ready for sale. If only. Shergold’s new Provocateur is a typical example of the often convoluted process involved.
“I think we started about 18 months ago,” remembers Patrick James Eggle, one of the UK’s most celebrated guitars makers and also the brains behind both the Shergold and Faith acoustic guitar designs (both brands are owned by Barnes & Mullins here in the UK). “I put the design down on paper and one of the guys I work with put it into a CAD drawing programme. Then we made basic prototypes and sent them to our workshop in Indonesia.
“But when we got the samples back, they just weren’t right. We went through this process a few times and, to cut a long story short, in the end, the guitars were really good – but they were still missing something. It was all the little things, you know? The feel of the neck, the way the fret ends were finished, how the fingerboard edges were rolled or not. Annoying little things like the two percent at the end that can make a guitar or kill it.
“And all this was after we’d been out to the factory and spent a few days trying to get all this done,” continues Patrick, trying not to sound as exasperated as he clearly felt. “In the end, we got two of the guys from the workshop in Indonesia to come here to my workshop where we spent a week making a guitar from scratch. It was tight: at about 4.30pm on the last day they were here, we got the strings on and it was playing and then they took it back with them. We said, ‘This is exactly what we want. Do everything the way we showed you: make this guitar.’ That’s the way it went. The next samples we received, well, they are the ones that you’ve got there.
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة May 2019 من Guitarist.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة May 2019 من Guitarist.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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