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News at GB Guitars

Welcome!

Welcome to the home on the web for GB Guitars; creators of the finest and most innovative bass guitars in the world, built completely by hand in the United Kingdom. Made great in Britain.

Take some time to have a good look around. There are things about our instruments and electronics that you will have not have seen before.

Check out our pioneering electronics systems by navigating around the site using the hyperlinks above and on the left of the page.

If you have any questions, we are only an email away!

13 Oct 2009 - GB Guitars and EBS at UK Bass shows

GB Guitars and EBS will be exhibiting at a couple of forthcoming shows.

On Sunday 1 November, we shall be at The Portland Rock Bar & Green in Hove for Bass Players Day with a full display of GB instruments and EBS amplification. For more information, please check out http://www.bassplayersday.com.

On Sunday 22 November we shall be at Bass Day at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. Again, we shall be exhibiting GB instruments and EBS amplification. For more information, please check out http://www.bassday.com.

23 Sep 2009 - Website updates!

After listening to feedback from visitors to the website, we have included a page with all the GB demos in one easy to find location. Just click on the Demos link up the top of the page!

Over the coming weeks, we'll also be adding to the Rumour © and Spitfire © galleries so be sure to check those out.

27 July 2009 - Welcome to the new GB Guitars website!

At last we have our new website up and running. Welcome! It has taken some time... but it is here at last! It will be a valuable resource to learn about the GB product range (watch this space!).

We will add content regularly to keep you informed. We still have some bits to add which won't be long in coming!

Anyway, we must get on - we have an order of kryptonite arriving (ready to put into our pickups), the weather is just right and the planets are perfectly aligned - which means we can start winding...

GB Guitars

  • When we say completely handmade in the UK, we mean it!
    • Bernie Goodfellow of GB Guitars

    • GB Guitars is an independent guitar maker located in Brighton, UK run by world class luthier Bernie Goodfellow (above). In an age of CNC routers and offshore manufacturing, we pride ourselves in manufacturing guitars in the traditional style - completely by hand, here in the UK.

      ...and when we say completely by hand, we mean completely by hand, right down to the hand soldering of our own in-house preamps and electronics systems and hand cutting the leather pads under the strap buttons.

      Through years of research, development and refinement, we believe that we have the most advanced traditional bass guitar on the market. Whether you want an exotic wood masterpiece or a more traditional paint finish we will create your dream bass.

      Our unrivalled electronics give you the option of adding these useful tools, not gimmicks, that no other builder does:- the GB "G-Spot", built-in tuner and the GB "Kick-Drum", built-in metronome. For those of you who want to be the centre of attention, the GB Light Controller with the unparalleled GB "Sound-to-Light" system is the ultimate... there is nothing like it anywhere else in the world.