Handmade Instruments or CNC?

If you’re a musician, or if you hang around with musicians or luthiers – or even if you’ve ever read a guitar forum – you’ll have heard the handmade versus CNC instrument debate.

So what’s actually important?

Build and Finish, OpinionGerry Hayes23 July 2019guitar, bass, luthier, hand-built, cnc

Blue Collar Sale: Frequently Asked Questions

Custom GuitarGerry Hayes19 January 2013luthier, blue collar, faq, guitar, hand-built, sale, custom

Birth of Burlesque

Custom GuitarGerry Hayes17 October 2012haze, lacewood, pickup, burlesque-tease, paf, burlesque, mahogany, figured wood, hand-built, maple, guitar, hand-made, ebony, humbucker, competition, custom

The Burlesque Revealed

Custom GuitarGerry Hayes15 October 2012burlesque, burlesque-tease, competition, custom, ebony, figured wood, guitar, hand-built, hand-made, haze, humbucker, lacewood, mahogany, maple, nova, paf, pickup, radio nova

Burlesque Tease III

Custom GuitarGerry Hayes11 October 2012haze, radio nova, lacewood, nova, pickup, burlesque-tease, paf, burlesque, mahogany, figured wood, hand-built, maple, guitar, hand-made, ebony, humbucker, competition, custom

Burlesque Tease II

Custom GuitarGerry Hayes10 October 2012haze, radio nova, lacewood, nova, pickup, burlesque-tease, paf, burlesque, figured wood, mahogany, hand-built, maple, guitar, hand-made, ebony, humbucker, competition, custom

Burlesque Tease I

Custom GuitarGerry Hayes9 October 2012haze, radio nova, lacewood, nova, pickup, burlesque-tease, paf, burlesque, figured wood, mahogany, hand-built, maple, hand-made, guitar, ebony, humbucker, custom, competition

Win a brand-new Haze Burlesque with Nova

Custom GuitarGerry Hayes8 October 2012haze, radio nova, lacewood, nova, pickup, burlesque-tease, paf, burlesque, mahogany, figured wood, hand-built, maple, guitar, hand-made, ebony, humbucker, competition, custom

Things Are Afoot: New Model Teasing

Custom GuitarGerry Hayes13 September 2012model, hand-made, guitar, instrument, hand-built, tease, custom

Haze Bassmaster and Radio Nova

Nova Guitar - Progress

Custom GuitarGerry Hayes26 April 201230" scale, bass, Bassmaster, competition, design, gerry hayes, guitar, hand-built, hayes, hayes custom guitar, haze custom guitar, instrument, luthier, nova, novabass, radio, rocktober, specification, VI

Nova Guitar - Progress

Custom GuitarGerry Hayes31 March 201230" scale, bass, Bassmaster, competition, design, gerry hayes, guitar, hand-built, hayes, hayes custom guitar, haze custom guitar, instrument, luthier, nova, novabass, radio, rocktober, specification, VI

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