No one does a guitar show like KDH. No pretentious questions. Like the every man who might go and take a look around. Well done!

@gaymanisfree

3 ай бұрын

K is an everyman and that is why we watch him

@Mail-In_Voting_Is_Great

3 ай бұрын

Most definitely appreciate what he does!

@user-ih2xg1qm9j

3 ай бұрын

This is all well and good but I prefer it when he's causing drama. 😉 KDH is so fair and well-researched that it's not drama for drama's sake, it's karma drama.

Cheers for taking the time to come and say hello to us at Tuffset Bridge!

@jorgeya2036

3 ай бұрын

Really nice product. Most offset Bridges always tend to have at least one downside but it seems like you have covered them all, amazing

@TuffsetBridge

3 ай бұрын

@@jorgeya2036 thank you so much! The intellectual property / parenting process took a long time, so I dedicated myself to optimising all aspects of the design (including a big focus on user experience) while that was going through. It's really over-baked - but I literally listed out every single dimension and aspect of an Offset bridge and promised myself that, whatever unique improvements the bridge has as a USP, that every single aspect of it would be best in class. So for instance, I went through about 4 or 5 versions getting the profile of the bridge (minimum saddle height relative to bridge base) a bit lower than an original bridge, so it wouldn't force some owners to shim their neck pocket to make it work. It also means if your bridge is currently scraping along the pickguard and can't be lowered any more, the Tuffset should give you just that little bit of extra room to manoeuvre and prevent scraping. In this way and many others, we've optimised the design a lot, and with some smart design packaging, it hasn't ballooned out of proportion like some of the other "engineered" locking bridges out there! I always wanted the graphics to look in place on an Offset guitar, and not to distract the eye but to fit in and perform!

@modestoney1577

3 ай бұрын

@@TuffsetBridge You have a great product - now make it affordable, please

Thanks for bringing us the content. Always awesome to see the stellar work being produced out of the UK. Well done!!

@michael1

3 ай бұрын

It's just £2k+ for a guitar that's copying something else that you can buy for £500-800. The ones they smash up first are really taking the piss too - even the drummer feels intelligent next to the idiots who buy these. My thought after the 3rd or 4th stall with another dull set of telecaster or SG copies was just how the guitar industry has stagnated with no ideas. I can't see why anyone would pay boutique brand prices for complete non entities - less of a brand and resale than Cort but they want the money for a Suhr or custom shop big brand. As for the ticket price - they wanted £15 to go and guitar shop in Birmingham. It's just silly to pay that. A show should be about showing what's new not a bunch of retail stores trying to flog strings and straps. When I look at the people walking in the background or the sales people in each booth the striking thing is - it's tired boomers looking at boomer guitar shapes presented by boomer staff. I've never felt less like spending money on a new guitar than ever before after watching this - and it's not KDH's fault - he showed (perhaps inadvertently, he doesn't appear to have noticed it) that the guitar industry is literally dying. Everything is old, the people and the guitars. Perhaps the only interesting thing were the number putting aluminium plates on - albeit I've never really thought it was a weak point. I think Vai's magnetic back cover is a selling point. SS jumbo frets, locking tuners, roasted maple necks but I've never sat fretting that the pick guard isn't aluminium and it doesn't seem likely to make any difference to the sound, playability or looks - but at least they'd done something. Perhaps it's fair to say that if they tried to do something most of the boomers that seem to be buying guitars probably wouldn't be interested. But, you know, there's no point being a small, inconsequential brand if you just create telecaster, sg and les paul copies is there? With no benefit - not cheaper and not regarded at all as a brand. Hilditch guitars was funny asked to talk about the guitars he looked taken aback as though he never expected to be asked that question and started umming and erring like you're taking your products to a show spend 5 minutes practising talking about each of them in a mirror mate - and it's another bunch of Gibson and Fender copies zzzzzzz £2k+ for a guitar made in a shed by a guy who barely has the power of speech.

@anthonycraig1458

3 ай бұрын

As soon as someone does something radical, few people want to know. Most guitar manufacturers have to play it reasonably safe. If it ain't broke...

@mmiller6873

3 ай бұрын

@@michael1 This is deep state analysis mate. :)

I appear to have ended up in the background twice in this video, and wasn't even aware the filming was going on. Finally famous!!!!! I always enjoy your vids kdh, keep up the good work.

@Dokazuj91

3 ай бұрын

Thank you for this video. It is a great source of information about local businesses that deserve support from the community. The prices on these guitars are also insanely competitive, I would love to hear your thoughts on how these compare to the big name brands and the rising competition from China.

Great to meet you at the show mate 😃👍 Keep up the great work man! "TEGRIDY!" 😜

Best coverage and camera work at this show, hands down. Great video! God bless and rock on 👍😎🎸

Damm! UK builders bringing the 🔥seriously some beautiful guitars

Bridge guy and Frenchie were interesting. The rest was like meeehhh.... How many more LP/Tele/Super Strat copies does the world really need? The market is already so over saturated.

@TuffsetBridge

3 ай бұрын

I'm glad you found me interesting! I can't remember one second of that interview - it was our first show and I'd hardly slept, and felt completely manic and wired!! Thought I'd buggered it up, but kdh was a gentleman and obviously has great experience picking the right camera angles and stuff on the fly, absolute pro! The bridge is available to pre-order if you're interested ❤

@mrksdlx

3 ай бұрын

@@TuffsetBridgeno man you looked tip top! And more importantly you have an innovative product. I’ll keep that in mind for the next time I need to install/swap a bridge.

@TuffsetBridge

3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! The reaction at the show (and to the launch since) has been so positive, really an amazing experience to get this design out of my head and into the real world!@@mrksdlx

Those Patrick James Eggle Guitars are gorgeous! It's a brand I've never payed attention too to be honest!

@MikeSmith-tx2lp

3 ай бұрын

It’s been an interesting journey. I played an early Eggle in the late eighties in a scroty little shop in Plymouth. It was in a league of its own - outstanding! A few years later I got a Berlin Pro with tremolo. It looked beautiful but had big problems with dead notes, tuning stability and poor intonation. Working with the shop we arranged a visit to the factory, met Patrick who was really concerned regarding the quality control that had allowed this instrument to leave his build line. He agreed to build me a hard tail Berlin with a stunning finish to my requirements. That was a great guitar. Apparently the back story was he’d expanded too quickly and had employed a bunch of laid off craftsmen from nearby Jaguar cars who could work wood but were not luthiers. The original one man band had been taken over by the accountants. I think he downsized in an attempt to regain the signature quality he was known for. His heart is definitely in it.

@S-T-E-V-E

3 ай бұрын

@@MikeSmith-tx2lp Yeah I'm pretty sure I played a cheap acoustic somewhere along the line but I think that was from his previous company that did the whole Asia imports thing, he left that company and started again at some point building the guitars that he does now! The Headstock is a bit of a letdown TBH, it looks cheap and bulky!

@pauln6803

3 ай бұрын

​@@MikeSmith-tx2lp From what I've heard, Patrick lost control of the company he started. Don't know the details, I was told by a former employee.

Wow...looks like the UK guitar makers are killing it. We've come a long way from the UK having Hofner's and Futurama's, then importing Fenders, Gibson's, and Gretch. There are definitely some proper, top-notch, premium instruments made right in the UK. I'd love to have some of those guitars. I don't see many UK brands here in the U.S.

Absolutely love seeing these small builders…I don’t know anything about them or even where to find them so this is fantastic…great job KDH👍

Thanks for the coverage, it's a pleasure to see such talented artisans show off their hard work.

Was a pleasure to meet you at the Grainger booth dude 🤘

Thanks so much KDH, you are a gentleman and a scholar 🙏

@bengreenbank

3 ай бұрын

You definitely have the best accent in the video. Proper West Yorkshire.

@karllongbottomguitars9192

3 ай бұрын

@bengreenbank , cheers buddy👍👍, appen it is 😂😂

Nice to put a face to the name with Carl Longbottom. TPS massive.

@karllongbottomguitars9192

3 ай бұрын

Cheers buddy 👍👍

@bleeknoir

3 ай бұрын

@@karllongbottomguitars9192 Pleasure! Sorry for the C and K mix up. Love the junior style model.

I'm pretty blown away by how many people in the UK are building guitars. some things here genuinely interest me and I need to check out. The guys bridge design is very cool. I'd actually enjoy doing intonation on that.

@TuffsetBridge

3 ай бұрын

Cheers Harry! I'm glad you like the Tuffset!!!

Thanks for the interview nice to meet you at the show . If your ever in Oxfordshire always welcome at Haynes guitars

Thank you for the review -I couldn't make it this year. So nice to see you review small UK luthiers.. Really makes me want a Cream T or Patrick James Eggle guitar now. Haha

Great Content!!! Really gets me excited to actually play watching this level of commitment/ passion. Cheers mate!!! 🤘🏻😎🤘🏻

Some great looking guitars and it's nice to see innovations on bridges. But, man prices are out of control!

@TuffsetBridge

3 ай бұрын

Cheers for the kind words about the bridge!! ❤

The blue, semi hollow, LP-shaped guitar in the first minute of the video had me drewling. If you took the neck binding off and made it lefthanded, it would be the perfect guitar to me. I've always wished that one of my LP's had a belly/comfort cut...and this has it...plus the upper fret access is incredible on this thing. Oh man..what a beauty.

Wow!! Just …wow. We yanks need to up our game. As an amateur tech hobbyist, these guitars inspire me to press on and keep learning and practicing the craft. Thanks KDH for this video. Love the channel and honesty.

@michael1

3 ай бұрын

Why? It was just a lot of boomers making Gibson and Fender copies. You yanks actually have Gibson and Fender for starters (Although Gibson couldn't make a guitar and the design is shit as one guy pointed out as he tried to convince the audience the headstock on his cheap copy wouldn't snap off - why copy it if it's shit in the first place? No one plays les paul anyway - jimmy page is famous now for planning application arguments not music) and a bunch of people who copy them that are renowned (for no good reason really but PRS is a thing - I can't even remember the names of these British guitar makers and it's been 30 seconds since I watched the video) I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. If I was going to spend £2k-3k on a guitar it wouldn't be with any of these companies. If Matt Bellamy had taste Manson might have done something interesting but they want £13k for something that doesn't even have SS frets afaict. The sustainer pickup is interesting but as Vai notes they sound awful and it's not worth putting on a signature guitar until they learn to make a few that sound good even if he uses one for a couple of songs to get the effect (although the most notable thing about Vai's latest sig guitar is that he doesn't play it - he gets the frets scalloped, pickups changed, switches added, trem altered etc - it's the least signature guitar on the market right now - you'd be better buying an RG and doing those mods and you'd get something closer to what he's playing than the stock PIA for less money. The funny shaped holes are just making it awkward for them to polish and do the finish so it's a guitar with 2 novelty shaped holes in it that is rough and unfinished if you feel inside them because the guys at the factory can't get tools inside it - for £3k.

Great vid - Look forward to the two show comparison/ critique vid in the future. Keep 'em coming. 👍

It was great to meet you dude, looking forward to seeing you again!

Glad to hear Patrick Eggle is still going. I remember seeing them probably 30 years ago when they were making PRS copies. Yay! Tim from Manson is a really nice guy. I know the Geo guitar didn't sell out in 4 hours because they released it Friday afternoon and I bought the last one on Sunday night lol. 20:43 £6499 err, why was it on the site for £7999 then?

@michael1

3 ай бұрын

I guess they know you have more money than sense and they can just make a number up.

@evilutionltd

3 ай бұрын

@@michael1 100% agree. More money than I know what to do with. Can't take it with you though so you may as well have nice things.

The valiant booth is incredible, and the short scale bass was made in collaboration with Philip McKnight the you tuber ❤❤❤I really like that bass . And from Phil you tube you get a discount by the way. Great video🤘🏻👍🏻

@louissanderson719

4 ай бұрын

Just looked on Phil’s videos, I was hoping he made a video on ig

This is all stunning workmanship. I can see I've got my work cut out for myself. The competition is pretty fierce. Leeder Guitars.

Yum yum! Delicious Guitars! 🤤 I’d no idea there were so many cool British Guitar makers around.🤔 Thanks KDH!

hey, that’s me at 17:37!!🥰

A brilliant journey around the site showcasing some fantastic 'off beat' manufactures. Thank you.

Hilditch by far the best for what he is. Shed made guitars to that quality are insane.

There's some absolutely stellar stuff there. The only bad thing is that I used to want to build my own guitar from scratch, but seeing the creativity and beauty in some of those masterpieces... man

@michael1

3 ай бұрын

Creativity? Is this irony or is the youtube audience now too young to know that the Telecaster, Strat, Les Paul are old. Ask your grandad what guitar his dad played.

@Zolbat

3 ай бұрын

@@michael1 I wasn't talking about those

Great overview! And I really dig those manson guitars!

@TranceMasterJack

3 ай бұрын

I guess Manson was a name before Charles, but ya gotta admit he kinda ruined it. 😉

Was great to meet you on Saturday. Thanks for the photo with Sophia too, she was super excited to meet everyone!

Great to see some new (to me) British builders. Thanks for the video.

Great video well done. I'm local to Birmingham and have been going for quite a few years. I've seen it grow and develop to what it is now with custom guitar companies, traders and performers. Unfortunately I had to miss it this year but your coverage has made up for that. I have noticed that over the years the big brand names that used to attend have either stopped (Yamaha) or scaled back their stands, but it does allow more space for the bespoke builders. It is a great event and very reasonably priced too.

Great video man, as always! 👌

Good to see ya in the UK KDH 👍

Thanks for your coverage of the show in Birmingham 😅. I tried to get there but was unsuccessful on the day. At least you have shown me some 😃 great 👍 stuff.

That was some interesting pretty unique stuff! Thanks

I understand that these companies have to make money too to stay in business, but these are some pretty high prices on guitars from next to no-name brands and a lot of them seem to use CNC machines. They just seem out of the range of most consumers when compared to the more well known brands. Plus I want to see more unique shapes, or at least twists on the same tired shapes. I really liked Doro Guitars for uniqueness and Grainger guitars some neat twists on explorers and V’s

@michael1

3 ай бұрын

Yep, exactly this. There's no reason to buy one and made in Britain just means the price is several fold higher than the value - and the one company shown that weren't just copying the Gibson / Fender shape look like they got someone to hold a pencil on a piece of blank paper and then prodded them with a cattle prod.

sweet bro, thanx 4 the tag along..

Great coverage of the show!

I love that 30 minuites on and off

Great video, like yourself it was nice to see some coverage of the smaller builders.

BirmingNAMM!

13:16 those leaves in the fretboard, that is such a great and original idea. What a nice touch to that guitar.

Thanks KDH - you're an absolute star and a gent! Jonny Brelliott

@luvvit

4 ай бұрын

@ltcustomguitars7128 - dude! your baritone Pioneer P2! 32m 48s

As a bloke who has made 1 or 2 guitars myself, both acoustic and electric, I have to say those are some serious looking bargains right there. Custom made, carefully constructed instruments, made from good looking materials all at prices that make some famous American mass producers look like they are taking the piss. Great stuff.

Thank you Mr KDH!

The adjustable bridges are brilliant and the pickups customized are brilliant

@TuffsetBridge

3 ай бұрын

Thank you for the kind words about the bridge! We started taking pre-orders last week and it's going great 👍

@iCry_88

3 ай бұрын

@@TuffsetBridge I rewatched that part a few times, thats a real interesting product, be good to see where this goes!

@TuffsetBridge

3 ай бұрын

@@iCry_88 thanks so much! You'll be seeing a lot more from us soon, and we hope to start making our own content too!

@robinhellier7436

3 ай бұрын

@@TuffsetBridge Yes, the bridge looks sleek but very sturdy and adjustable. Any future designs incorporating a Bigsby style tremelo system?

Very nice job as always

I couldn’t understand Carl but he makes cool guitars

@TuffsetBridge

3 ай бұрын

I met Karl for the first time at the show, he's an absolute legend!!

@karllongbottomguitars9192

3 ай бұрын

Ha ha ha 😂brilliant, and thanks 👍

At 1:13 - the shapely back of that Macon semi hollow is beautiful. And 6 lbs 11 oz! Weight makes a difference to my old frame. All of his guitars are gorgeous.

Those Eggle's were gorgeous! That neck on the 3rd one.

@2:08 That back is INSANE! 😍🤤 The cavity covers are gorgeous, too. The wood all by itself is art with that crazy figuring, but then he did something crazy and went and built beautiful guitar with it. Paul Reed Smith himself would drool over it then demand the contact info of whoever supplied that wood lol

New Sub thanks for the fun videos. I love the leaf inlays.

The Haynes Guitars look interesting. Tuffset Bridges too.

Great show. Great video.

For those of us who remember the London Guitar Show's at the ExCel in the 00's It feels strange that this is now the biggest guitar show in the UK. Back then it was HUGE and was on par with NAMM.

Wow. That sapele is phenomenal! 😮❤

I wander if Tap ever used to show up to these... i Fn love Nigel and the boys. Man there's some beautiful builds there. Them luthiers in Europe aren't messin around. Great video Thranduil! I mean KDH...

Does anyone else feel like a lot of guitar builders are just making guitars that are Art\Collectors pieces, just me maybe. Great vid KDH.

@zeno99

4 ай бұрын

I think they're doing the best they can to differentiate themselves. They don't have the benefit of nostalgia and tradition like Gibson and Fender. They need to take some risks if they want people to give a damn.

@luvvit

4 ай бұрын

nothing wrong with art

@Rex-golf_player810

4 ай бұрын

I mean it is a hobby sort of thing, if u wanted a guitar only to play music and not care too much about these things u dont NEED to go to a whole ass guitar show lol

@michael1

3 ай бұрын

Yes and no. These guys are basically making copies of guitars that (the originals) are basically bought by middle aged collectors. But no one is collecting these brands - we've never heard of them. Once upon a time these were the guitars being played. In 1970-something, when Jimmy Page still had his hair and his teeth and he was standing drug addled playing a les paul badly it was the coolest thing on the planet. Today it's an antique (the guitar and jimmy) Peter Green came back from the dead for a bit and even he didn't want to play his old guitar - so it's kind of sad how much they're still flogging it for.

Enjoyed going and although many of the guitar manufacturers weren't necessarily making the type of guitars I might like, it did show just how many UK companies there are making instruments.

Awesome job

My favourite Muse song is still Sunburn, the first song of theirs I ever heard!

@adiohead

3 ай бұрын

First song of theirs I heard too. A friend of mine played it to me because I liked Jeff Buckley and Radiohead. Love Muse's early stuff. Their later stuff not so much.

Went on the sunday and was incredible! So many nice things that I'll never afford but got to noodle about on. That gold Longbottom offset played and sounded like a beast! And the molineaux guitars have some of the tidiest wiring you'll ever see (the clear back plate is certainly warranted). Tis a grand ode day out for all us geetary nerds :)

@karllongbottomguitars9192

3 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the Fulvia 👍

@AnimalJohn85

3 ай бұрын

@@karllongbottomguitars9192 its such a beautiful bit of craftsmanship, plays just as stunning as it looks. Them pickups were a revelation, do like sunbears :)

@karllongbottomguitars9192

3 ай бұрын

@@AnimalJohn85 , yeah Sunbear's are awesome 👌👍

That similation blue Manson guitar is... cool.

that Oryx is beautiful!

That hilditch SG is beautiful… and the Granger super strats….

27:15 - A wild Dagan appears!

I hope offset revolution makes Bass VI upgrade bridges it would be a huge improvement.

@TuffsetBridge

3 ай бұрын

I hope we can try the Tuffset in a Bass VI soon! The intonation range is definitely suitable - it's about double the range of a standard bridge, and it frees up all the space usually taken up by the intonation springs. Our string slot is just a hair over 1.5mm wide, so I'm not sure how well some of the heavier bottom E gauges would seat into that - we'll have to try!

Very cool !!

Tuffset certainly just sold me a bridge. Possibly half a dozen.

@TuffsetBridge

3 ай бұрын

❤🤘🙌

@AnodyneHipsterInfluencer

3 ай бұрын

@@TuffsetBridge Fantastic idea. Seems like it fixes the gripes I have with my Mastery bridges.

lovely weather

Patrick James Eggle , Macon etc Top quality guitars .

That green Granger bass! I need that.

Really wonderful guitars!

Killer vlog 🤟

PJE is a true artist, those guitars (whilst not my thing) are incredible

Those Graingers are beautiful! Best in Show

i went there on the saturday and tried out guitars ranging from £400 - £4000. It definitely put into perspective how much guitar you actually get at the "lower" budget ranges (about "£500 - £1500"), it is very much diminishing returns the more you spend and it's definitely purchasing based on what you love rather than cold hard specs/fit and finish.

That valiant separated humbucker is a good idea.

Getting close to 100K - would be well deserved!

thpse wood inlays are actually really cool!! more guitar companies should do that!

the pickups under the pickguard is the future of the electric guitar i think.

@TuffsetBridge

3 ай бұрын

Like flying cars or hydrogen fusion, it's the future and it's been that way since the 1960s! 😂❤

Looking at the neck joints on the first batch, id bet they were manufactured in the factory Cort owns. Not that theres anything wrong with that, Cort have been knocking it out of the park these last few years or so.

That first PJE for me 💙

Would love to have been there Now KDH needs to come over to Canada and check out our mostly smaller shows

Good show review, thanks 👍. Mansons seems to be the most innovative around. Hardly surprising, since they've been catering to the needs of one of the most innovative players for the past 20+ years in Matt Bellamy. Regarding the top inlays, EBMM were doing that on the Petrucci Majesty models from about 2016 - nothing new there, just a variation on a theme.

I want the tuffset bridge for abr-1 posts

What a nice event.

26:53 wow. Fantamazing.

Great overview, I'd always wondered what it was like, almost went to it this year. Didn't realise there were so many guitar builders based in the UK! real cottage industry. Definitely not the Corporate fest that is NAMM! Did you bump into Chappers?

Valiant is like …. On the list of must haves one day

What do you think of the ibanez tone blaster 100 h head

Great vid again! I just wanted to point out though that it looks like it's spelled "Grainger" and not "Granger" guitars as you can see on the sign at 14:07

@TranceMasterJack

3 ай бұрын

So ginger then

Lot of "tonewood" myths going on.

Some nice guitars 👍🍺

I’ve just realised something I’ve never noticed before. You share a voice with Murph from the Second Captains sports podcast. It’s uncanny.