Fabian RW - Guitars

Fabian RW - Guitars 'Fabian RW - Guitars' is an 'eco-company', creating semi-customizeable hand-made guitars of high quality. Designed with respect for beautiful timber.

I have been refining these guitar designs for years now, seeking the very most from a single-two guitar designs. They are the highest-quality versatile electric-guitars and electric bass-guitars for the most competitive prices, with fantastic options for tone, playability and function.

- please follow this page to see the occasional sound checks, reviews and design-specials. Thanks for your interest, Fabian :)

13/02/2021

My woodworking business has been busy and I have upgraded a few machines, guitar production not so much, although I am making a resonator guitar currently. But I have news:

New for 2021: My workshop will be running mostly from solar/battery storage power!

The battery is already installed and will draw power from night-time mains when supply is high and demand is low.
The solar panels will supply in the daytime, or charge the battery, or feed back into the national grid, meaning the electricity used will be as eco-friendly (and cheap) as currently possible.

After some delay from a long term health condition I am going to be up and running again in the new year 2019!The guitar...
16/12/2018

After some delay from a long term health condition I am going to be up and running again in the new year 2019!
The guitars are on their way.

Below is some yew wood, with a perfect patina, taken out halfway through the drying process for a month or two and given some moisture and a little air to bring out the oxidizing colours with fungal spalting giving character. This is the true hidden vibrancy and colour character of yew when exposed to UV light. It has now gone back in the drying shed to slowly air dry for another two years for perfect stability.

28/09/2016

Soundcheck video!! - I've added in a slideshow of the build process too.

Finished Bass with Pickguard:
29/06/2016

Finished Bass with Pickguard:

These are the photos of the Bass Guitar in the making. As you can see; tidying my workshop will be my next project. :)
06/05/2016

These are the photos of the Bass Guitar in the making. As you can see; tidying my workshop will be my next project. :)

This is my latest project - it is a private project but I thought I'd share it here. It is based on a Maple Fender Jazz ...
04/05/2016

This is my latest project - it is a private project but I thought I'd share it here. It is based on a Maple Fender Jazz Bass - which was cut in half - the two halves were then glued onto an extra-long & wider neck to create the 6-string Fretless Through-Neck Bass that you see in the photos.
I also added one of my headstock designs and changed around the base of the fretboard and pick-guard (which is not shown in the photos) to fit with the custom-design.
I will upload some photos to show how I made it and maybe some sound clips with permission of the new owner.

Woods -
-Body sides - Rock Maple (source - Guitar - the remainder parts were not wasted)
-Fretboard - Indian Ebony (source - Surplus old stock)
-Through-neck Strips - Brazilian Mahogany (source - Scrap Victorian Piano)
-Headstock - English Holly (source - Local 1987 great-gale)
-Through-neck - Ash (source - Local donated surplus)

Other Materials -
Nut - Cow Bone (source - ethical local sourced dog treat)

Pickups -
One Active EMGdc45

This is my store of salvaged timber, consisting of trees cut down before I was even born when regulations on exotic wood...
09/02/2016

This is my store of salvaged timber, consisting of trees cut down before I was even born when regulations on exotic wood imports were even dodgier than they are at present. There's all-sorts in here from 12 Victorian pianos to English holly and yew trees that were brought down in the great-gale (hurricane) of 1987.

I'm finally getting the prototypes of MK1 built:
03/06/2015

I'm finally getting the prototypes of MK1 built:

New Workshop in the making!!! Still sorting out so much at the moment but I've got an order for a Customized Hollow-body...
16/09/2014

New Workshop in the making!!! Still sorting out so much at the moment but I've got an order for a Customized Hollow-body Guitar - Specified to have the highest-grade of woods: Sycamore Top, Yew Neck, Yew Back & Sides and an FSC ethically-sourced African Blackwood Fretboard. It'll also have gold hardware, three high-quality humbuckers and detailed binding, purfling & inlays.

I've been doing oddjobs, here's a restoration of a sawn-open guitar..:
12/06/2014

I've been doing oddjobs, here's a restoration of a sawn-open guitar..:

Above; restoration job on a random 70's guitar - Below; construction of my guitar MK1-no.1
24/03/2014

Above; restoration job on a random 70's guitar - Below; construction of my guitar MK1-no.1

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Stackwood End, Stackwood Road, Polstead Heath
Suffolk
CO65BA

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