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Gaskell Guitars Australia
Nov 1613 min read
Tonewoods for electric guitars
Originally written 2009. Updated 2023. NOTE: There are many other well-known tonewoods used in the making of acoustic guitars. This...
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Gaskell Guitars Australia
Nov 62 min read
Today is U.S Election Day
I am in Orlando, Florida and today is 5 November, 2024. As an Australian watching the U.S election it is very interesting to me. I am an...
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Gaskell Guitars Australia
Oct 232 min read
The first production Gaskell left handed acoustic
As part of my experimenting with factory-made guitars in 2023, I spent a great deal of time researching whether there might be a need in...
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Gaskell Guitars Australia
Oct 212 min read
LEFT HAND GUITARS IN STOCK. Available for sale now.
These are the last of the Gaskell Hybrid Series guitars made in 2023, plus a couple of personal guitars of mine that I am willing to let...
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Gaskell Guitars Australia
Oct 71 min read
What happened to www.gaskellguitars.com.au?
I was a bit slow in renewing my domain ownership for www.gaskellguitars.com.au this year and hackers jumped on it before I got to renew....
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Gaskell Guitars Australia
Mar 201 min read
The ultimate guide on Floyd Rose tremolos for lefties
It's taken me a year to put this together, but I have finally written the absolute definitive guide on left handed Floyd Rose tremolos. I...
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Gaskell Guitars Australia
Feb 292 min read
Why I like Tonerider pickups
I have a Tonerider Rocksong pickup in one of my personal Gaskell left handed, single-pickup Explorer style guitars. The thing is a beast....
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Gaskell Guitars Australia
Feb 21 min read
Gaskell Hybrid Series is discontinued
Well, you can't say I didn't try. But the bottom line is that in the ruins of this post-Covid world, doing one-off guitar builds using...
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Gaskell Guitars Australia
Dec 20, 20232 min read
Pricing
All Gaskell Custom Shop guitars are 100% made in Australia using the highest quality tonewoods, hardware and electronics sourced from all...
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Gaskell Guitars Australia
Dec 20, 20231 min read
Christmas 2023
It's been a good year for Gaskell Guitars, hardly sustainable (hence why I have a "job" too) but still worth it, even if just...
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Gaskell Guitars Australia
Sep 23, 20232 min read
Update on production (22 September 2023)
Well, I am HAPPY to say that most customer orders for the Gaskell HYBRID Series are in! I have preliminarily inspected these guitars and...
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Gaskell Guitars Australia
Aug 16, 20231 min read
Update on production (15 August 2023)
Well, I am not very happy to say that all guitars in production are behind schedule, some as much as four weeks. I am not sure exactly...
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Gaskell Guitars Australia
Jun 3, 20231 min read
Left handed guitar knobs
One thing that all the major guitar brands utterly fail on when it comes to making left hand guitars (if they even do) is fitting them...
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Gaskell Guitars Australia
Mar 24, 20232 min read
Left hand guitars and guitar manufacturers in 2023
As lefty players very well know, left handed guitar availability has never been consistent with the mainstream guitar brands. Some big...
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Gaskell Guitars Australia
Feb 8, 20236 min read
New 2023 Gaskell "Hybrid Series" guitars
At the end of 2022 I decided to experiment with making factory guitars again. The last time I made factory guitars was in 2011. The...
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Gaskell Guitars Australia
Feb 9, 20213 min read
New Old Stock (NOS) guitars for sale
I have been through storage and have found a number of N.O.S guitars, unfinished or not even assembled. ALL ARE FOR SALE. No pictures...
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Gaskell Guitars Australia
Sep 8, 20183 min read
The changing world of left hand guitars
(Originally written in 2012. Updated in 2016 and in 2018.) As lefty players very well know, left handed guitar availability has never...
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Gaskell Guitars Australia
Aug 14, 20172 min read
Australian process for exporting products with rosewood content (2017)
In January 2017 the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (C.I.T.E.S) prohibited the trade of...
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Gaskell Guitars Australia
Jun 29, 20172 min read
New restrictions on exporting guitars made with rosewood
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) is an international agreement between...
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Gaskell Guitars Australia
Jun 10, 20172 min read
2017 and beyond...
2016 marked our tenth year in business and in those last 10 years we have made a lot of guitars and fulfilled a lot of dreams. I have...
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