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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...

Gaskell Guitars Australia
Oct 23, 20242 min read
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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....

Gaskell Guitars Australia
Oct 7, 20241 min read
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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....

Gaskell Guitars Australia
Feb 29, 20242 min read
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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...

Gaskell Guitars Australia
Feb 2, 20241 min read
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Pricing
All Gaskell Custom Shop guitars are 100% made in Australia using the highest quality tonewoods, hardware and electronics sourced from all...
Gaskell Guitars Australia
Dec 20, 20232 min read
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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...
Gaskell Guitars Australia
Dec 20, 20231 min read
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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...
Gaskell Guitars Australia
Sep 23, 20232 min read
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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...
Gaskell Guitars Australia
Aug 16, 20231 min read
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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...
Gaskell Guitars Australia
Jun 3, 20231 min read
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Christmas builds (2016)
Just an update on the builds going in the shop. I have finished just about all the Christmas builds and we are still on target for our...
Gaskell Guitars Australia
Dec 16, 20161 min read
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Gibson to make left handed guitars again?
12 October, 2016 Guitar sales must be a bit slow at Gibson. When they’re down, Gibson has in the past tried to salvage things by suddenly...
Gaskell Guitars Australia
Oct 12, 20162 min read
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News 2008
And even more OCTOBER, 2008 - what a month! Well, this is not good news for Australians, but the Australian dollar has dived 35% in the...
Gaskell Guitars Australia
Nov 1, 20084 min read
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Gaskell Guitars - About Us (2008)
GASKELL GUITARS is a guitar manufacturer in Sydney Australia that makes production and custom left handed guitars that are not available...
Gaskell Guitars Australia
May 22, 20081 min read
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