Here Come the Girls

Below is the list and specifications of the guitars I will have with me for sale at Sidmouth this year, 2009. Click on the image for a larger view of the ladies.

Remember the Music Fair is at Blackmore Gardens this year and not at the Ham.


Olivia, £1,200.00

615mm scale length, 12 Fret Parlour Guitar. Highly figured Cocobolo back and ribs with Cocobolo bindings. Brazilian mahogany neck, Rosewood fretboard and Sitka Spruce top. Slotted head with engraved tuners. Ablam inlay on body and soundhole. Supplied with hardshell case.

Ursula, £1,400.00

635mm scale length, 12 Fret 00 guitar. Indian Rosewood body with Sycamore bindings. Brazilian mahogany neck, Ebony fretboard and AAA Cedar top. Slotted head with engraved tuners. Ablam inlay on body and soundhole, Gold MOP snowflake design inlay on fretboard and Logo inlaid on head. Supplied with gig bag, Hiscox hard shell case available at an additional cost.

Indi, £1,200.00

650mm scale length,14 Fret 000 guitar. Indian Rosewood body with Walnut bindings. Brazilian mahogany neck, Ebony fretboard and Sitka spruce top. Gold Gotoh tuners. Supplied with gig bag, Hiscox hard shell case available at an additional cost.

Manon, £1,400.00

650mm scale length,14 Fret OM/C guitar. Brazilian Coto Rosewood cutaway body with bright sycamore bindings. Brazilian mahogany neck, ebony fretboard and AAA grade European spruce top. Gold Gotoh tuners. Supplied with gig bag, Hiscox hard shell case available at an additional cost.

Tosca, £2,300.00

635mm scale length, 14 Fret OM/C guitar. Brazilian Rosewood cutaway body with Ebony bindings. Brazilian mahogany neck and bound Ebony fretboard with W/B/W purfling. Bound head with W/B/W purfling. AAA grade European spruce top. Gold Gotoh 510 mini tuners. Headway Snake 3 pickup fitted and the guitar is supplied with a Hiscox hard shell case.

Kira, £1,400.00

635mm scale length, 14 Fret OM/LH guitar. LEFT HANDED GUITAR made with a Walnut body with Padauk bindings and W/G/W purfling on ribs. Brazilian mahogany neck and Ebony fretboard. European spruce top. Gold Gotoh tuners. Supplied with gig bag, Hiscox hard shell case available at an additional cost.

Nigella, £1,400.00

650mm scale length, 14 Fret CM guitar. Dark and sultry Indian rosewood body with bright Sycamore bindings. Brazilian mahogany neck and Ebony fretboard. AA European spruce top. Gold Gotoh tuners. Supplied with gig bag, Hiscox hard shell case available at an additional cost.

Instruments curently under construction.

Tenor guitar.
Mandola.
Bouzouki.
Classical guitar.
Tenor Ukulele.


Print and clip the voucher below, then bring it to the Music Fair at The Sidmouth Folk Week and claim £50.00 off of the marked price off any of the guitars on the stand.

The Shack

I recieved a copy of "The Shack" from friends last christmas and started reading it immediately.
At first it appeared to be just one of those books that as a theme was all about loss and saddness so I put it down to read it later.
When later arrived, six months later, I started reading it again and was hooked.
At first I wanted to follow Mackenzie on his quest to find out what had happened to Missey, then realised I was on a quest to find answers to to some of my own questions about life and is there really a God who cares about me.

Publishers' Description
Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his great sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend.
Against his better judgement he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack's world forever.

I dare you to read this book and not find your life changed, for the better.

Extract from Sidmouth Folk Week Programme

Music Fair at Blackmore Gardens.

Friday-Friday 10am-8pm FREE Entry

The best festival music fair in the country’
This year the Music Fair has moved Blackmore Gardens, the town based heart of the new Festival.
This Fair is not to be missed, whatever your musical interests happen to be. All in one marquee, you will find the best selection of folk and world music CD’s, a huge range of musical instruments, music, books and accessories and the finest array of specialist musical instrument makers and sellers in the country.
If you are a musician, don’t miss the opportunity to try out the best instruments available and talk to the experts – fit in a trip to the Blackmore around your gigs, or just give yourself an hour or two off to browse around these superb instruments.
If you just love music, this may be the opportunity you have been looking for to find something special for your music collection, get started with an instrument or buy that accessory you just couldn’t find anywhere else – it’s all here, pay the
Music Fair a visit. If there is something you really want why not ring in advance to your supplier below?
The Whole Wide World: Full range of Festival artists and other
CDs: 01460 77415, 07877 182823
Hobgoblin Music: Instruments, accessories, books & CDs etc.
01273 491456, 0845 1309500
PJ Music: Instruments, accessories, books and CDs:
01379 890088, 07968 687011
The Music Room: Instruments, accessories, books & CD/DVDs, starter kits: 01274 879768
Oakwood Instruments: Makers of handmade acoustic and electric musical instruments: 0113 2658585, 07789 397833
Tim Phillips Violins: maker: 01686 624536
Alex Willis Guitars: maker and repairer of fine stringed instruments: 01323 768689, 07976 739971, www.willisguitars.co.uk.
Sonic Violins (Richard Roberts): maker: 01202 650322
Bridge Violins (Neil Mcritchie): 07885 484509
Jones/Kendall Guitars: makers of acoustic guitars and stringed musical instruments: 0161 797 5136
Wesson Accordions: maker and reseller: 01938 552309,
07980 258038

Sidmouth Update saturday 11th July

Craft Fair
This year the Craft Fair has been moved from Blackmore gardens and will be in a marquee on Kennaway House Lawn (previously known as Church House) and in part of Kennaway House itself, why? who knows.
Music Fair
This year the Music Fair has been re-located from the Ham and will now be in a magnificent marquee in Blackmore Gardens adjacent to the ceilidh marquee and childrens events.
I will have a wide selection of instruments for you to play and will post photos and details whithin the next few days as the instruments are completed.

Sidmouth 2009 Update.

Now my website and emails are up and working again I can get back to concentrtating on the preparations for Sidmouth.
Before getting totaly involved I have to complete the repair to the Double Bass I have in the workshop.
I have put off working on them over the years due to their size, but as it appears there is no one in this area that repairs them I have decided to offer a repair and setup service for Cello's and Double Bass's.
If your's reqiuires repairing, or just a setup, please get in contact through sales@willisguitars.co.uk or telephone 44 1323 768689.
I can supply new strings, bridges, tail pieces, tuners, pickups, tail pieces, Cello hard shell cases and of course hand turned, old spruce, sound posts.

Hip Hip Hooray for Easyspace

Its Friday morning, the 10th of July and the website is back again and now sitting in Scotland on Easyspace's servers. All the email addresses should now be working as well.

ISP part 4

What lovely people at Easyspace. I had to go direct to Nominet and pay a small fee to have my ISP Tag changed, cheaper than calling Zetnet's premium phone number.

My website is now residing in Scotland, where my heart sometimes is, with easyspace. I hope to have the email situation sorted soon, apparently I am waiting for the domain name to propagate over the web servers and point to easyspace, in the mean time please keep using docguitar@btinternet.com.

SIDMOUTH FOLK WEEK NEWS

My booking for space in the music marque has been confirmed, please note the Music Tent is not on the Ham but in Blackmore gardens this year, more details later, I have to get on with completing the new guitars for this show

ISP part 3

Well here I am still waiting for Zetnet to release my IPS Tag so I can move to my new home home at Easyspace.
Zetnet is owned by Breathe, why, what did Zetnet do wrong to be bought out by them?

ISP part 2

During the weekend of the 4th and 5th of July I will be switching ISP's from the incompetent Zetnet to the highly competent Easypace. After that all emails should continue to function and be delivered to the relevant department.

Undeliverable emails.

Due to the inefficiency of my ISP ZETNET, all my emails are sitting somewhere in the hinterland. I am sorry that your email is not getting through, this is solely ZETNET's fault and I will be switching to another ISP ASAP. If you wish to contact me by email please use docguitar@btinternet.com till further notice.

Regards
Alex.