Bass Guitar Magazine

Eve Guitars gets a mention in the Jan 2012 edition of Bass Guitar Magazine - P.8

On the bench

35" scale bass is oiled up and drying - the last guitar of 2011!!

On the Bench

Cherry, Mahogany & Walnut 4-string 35" scale bass in the works

Great British Guitar Show

Eve Guitars will be exhibiting at the Great British Guitar Show in Birmingham on the 25-26 February 2012
www.ukguitarshows.co.uk

Bass redo

This breaks my heart, but sometimes these things happen. The spalted wood on the left and centre image simply didn't carve well enough, and had to be cut out. I then made two new side wings with some lovely Cherry and Maple. Sigh, these things are sent to try us I suppose...

You can now buy Eve Guitars at Red Dog Music in Edinburgh:

Sorry, you have to copy and paste the links-

http://www.reddogmusic.co.uk/Guitars-Amps-and-Effects/Electric-Guitars/Solid-Body/Eve-String-Pro-Fretted.html

http://www.reddogmusic.co.uk/Guitars-Amps-and-Effects/Electric-Guitars/Solid-Body/Eve-Elite-Fretless-6-String.html

http://www.reddogmusic.co.uk/Basses-Amps-and-Effects/Electric-Bass/5-String-Electric-Bass/Eve-Elite-Fretless-5-string.html

On the Bench

Necks in progress. Some lovely Quartersawn Sapele Mahogany - scarf joints galore!!!

Check out Eve Guitars on Google+

Lots of photos of recently made guitars
https://plus.google.com/106258175476679091489/posts

Elite 5-String Fretless - 36" scale Bass

More pics on www.eveguitars.co.uk coming soon!

Newly finished - Professional Line Mahogany Guitar

This guitar is for sale - please contact:
info@eveguitars.co.uk

On the bench: 5 String 35" scale Bass - 1st coat of oil

Professional Line Ash & Mahogany Guitar

The site has been updated with new pics!

http://www.eveguitars.co.uk

Elite Line - Cherry Fretless Guitar

Finally finished! Check the site soon for more pictures of this guitar!

On the Bench

Fretless 4 string bass & Mahogany body in the works...

Elite line Guitar

Completed Elite line Guitar - Cherry, Iroko, Walnut body with fretless ebony fingerboard. Oil & Wax finish.

Customer feedback

The birth of Eve

I was looking for a present for my 60th birthday, my mind wandered into the realms of a bespoke guitar. My current guitars are a PRS and an American Richie Sambora Strat, my last was a Gibson Les Paul Signature which I had for over 20 years, time for something new I thought.

I’d met Dougie who runs Eve Guitars, and was very impressed with his work, and asked if he would be interested in making a six string electric for me. From the outset the guitar was tailored-made to my spec, (with his advice of course,) soon he was sending emails of guitar shapes, sizes, wood types, pick-ups, machine heads, bridges etc.

The joy being that there was nothing that couldn’t be done, it was ‘imagination and beyond.’ He took me to see his workshop, here he introduced me to a world of different woods explaining the benefits gained from each one for maximum sustain and depth of sound quality. Woods chosen, shape chosen, hardware chosen I was measured, like getting a suit made in the good old days, I daresay if I’d wanted 10 buttons on the cuffs he would have managed it.

The expectation for the guitar was akin to waiting for your child to be born. The day it arrived and I’d arranged to meet Dougie by request, and he presented me with the guitar. I recognised it immediately but it was nothing to actually holding it in your hands and feeling its contours, stroking the superb neck, then playing it, though only acoustically, you immediately know it belongs to you, it’s yours. Not by ownership but you feel it belongs in your hand.

I cannot recommend this experience enough, the time the effort, attention to detail, the incredible workmanship takes the guitar onto a brand new level. You know that no one anywhere else on the planet will have another guitar that looks, feels or plays the same. If I never play it on stage, I thought, for the rest of my days I can hang it on the wall and just look at it, take my word for it, it is a work of Art.

(P.S. I played it live for the first time at my son’s wedding and it sounds as good as it looks, and that’s saying something!)

Gordon Douglas

Gordon is a singer songwriter and has been playing in bands in the East Coast of Scotland for over 40 years. He also wrote and performed in two musicals – ‘Devil’s Rock’ at the Dundee Rep and ‘The Heart of Gold’ at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2006.

Website is online!!!

The Eve Guitars website is up! Only a couple of pages are still under construction, but there is enough to get started! http://www.eveguitars.co.uk/

Promotional flyer for the 1st Eve Bass

Professional Line

The 'Professional Line' - Mahogany & Iroko deep bolt-on body with Oil finish, Mahogany and Iroko Neck. The Sapele Mahogany body looks great in natural light - it shimmers!

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profile/DouglasMullen

Mahogany + Iroko Professional Line 6 string guitar in progress

Elite line of guitars & basses in progress

Professional line of guitars & basses in progress

Front page design for EveGuitars.co.uk - coming very soon!

EveGuitars.co.uk

Apologies for the website not being live yet, but I've been really busy building a new range of guitars, but I hope to have it online soon!

NEW FULL WEBSITE COMING SUMMER 2011!!!

Carving the wings

In Progress...

On the Bench

Guitar in progress

2011 4-string bass