It’s been a year since I incorporated Derelict Guitars, and I started cutting my first body from a timber blank at the beginning of December 2021. Things have come quite a long way since then – it became a more important part of my portfolio than I expected, and I’m still slightly blown away that complete strangers have entrusted me with building them an instrument!
As I’m continuing to enjoy every second of the process, I’m also getting closer to refining what it is that I actually do, and what I have to offer. I’m sticking to the ‘Derelict’ nature of the Derelict name, and focusing on the longer-term goal of building guitars largely from reclaimed lumber – driftwood, bogwood and construction timber. But I also found out that I built one particularly good-looking weirdo beast of a guitar that is lots of fun to wield – the three-humbucker Tele with a Bigsby that I call ‘the Treblemaker’. I’m building a second of these to-order, as well as creating a couple of others (a 12-string and one with triple P90s) just to flex my range a little.
So I’ve rebranded (literally – I ordered my logo on a heated branding iron so that I can burn it into future headstocks). I think the identity feels a bit more in-keeping with the name.
