Chris George Guitars
Armed only with an A5 paper bound copy of, “How to Build a Folk Guitar” by John Bailey, purchased at the first ever Keele Folk Festival, Chris built his first guitar in 1966. It was a 12 string acoustic inspired by seeing John Lennon playing one in a Beatles film.
When at a South East London College, Chris built a nearly acceptable acoustic and formed a folk band called “Hunter Muskett”. The band played George acoustics and electrics, toured at home and abroad for about four years and released two albums.
Chris then moved from London to Lincolnshire and went back into teaching but still played and built guitars and boasted one of the best primary school guitar clubs around! After leaving teaching in 1998, Chris took guitar building more seriously, finally moving his workshop out of a spare bedroom into purpose built premises.
In Dec 2004 one of his electric guitars was reviewed by Dave Burrluck for Guitarist magazine (UK) and was awarded Guitarist Choice.
Dave subsequently had Chris build him two custom electrics – both with Variax electronics. Chris’ most recent guitar was featured in Guitarist again on the “Best Gear First” page in August 2006.
He now specialises in building custom instruments, both acoustics and electrics, and tries to keep repair work to a minimum.
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Chris George Custom 17 inch Archtop Jazz Guitar
Chris George Tele Style Guitar
Chris George Guitars
Chris George Custom Guitar
Chris George Electric Guitar
Chris George Guitars