Contact:
Glen Havelock
07570 495945
glen.havelock@gmail.com
A unique resource for custom made and one-off guitar parts
...and still a professional guitar setup, service and repair centre serving Greater Manchester, Lancashire and beyond
COVID-19 UPDATE - Please be aware I will not be taking in repairs delivered in person for the foreseeable future. All remote work including customisation of guitars and parts sent by mail or courier are still welcome. Sorry!
Welcome!
We all dream of the perfect guitar. Some of us go a step further and modify our guitar, or even self-build them, in search of that dream. But what happens when things don't fit together right, the previous body routing shows through, or you just need a look that isn't available from the usual parts suppliers?
That's where Axion Custom Works comes in. From my workshop in Bury I make special parts that are hard to come by elsewhere. Unique pickguards, non-standard pickup rings, hardware with a special look - all the little things that make the whole thing just work.
This business has evolved from a setup and repair service into one that tries to fill the market gaps that DIY guitar enthusiasts find all the time. As I still do a lot of that setup and repair work, I have learned a fair amount about what guitarists and their guitars are missing.
So please have a browse around my site, and if you see anything interesting or if you have any ideas that you need creating, feel free to get in touch for a friendly discussion with no strings attached (OK, that's lame, but it won't be the last tme you ever see that line used!)
Axion Custom Works
1 Gisburn Drive
Bury
BL8 3DH UK
About me
I have been tinkering with guitars for almost as long as I have been playing them, and started making my first instrument around 1991.
Around 2005 I decided to get some proper training from someone who really knows how to make instruments - John Marlow.
Meanwhile I had become disenchanted with the corporate world, and the scientific and engineering work I had done for almost 25 years was being reduced to a tick-box mentality. That's not me, I need stuff to think about and problems to solve.
So in 2010 I decided to go full time as a guitar repairer. The business developed, and now I not only repair guitars and other fretted instruments, I also make a wide variety of custom guitar parts. For 10 years I was the resident guitar and fretted instrument repairer at one of Manchester's biggest music shops.
I demand of myself only the highest quality work. I stick with the job until it is right, even if I have quoted a fixed fee for the work.
Axion Custom Works is the new trading name for Cuicuica Instruments.
- Basic setup
- Full service setup
- Ultimate setup (fret dress + full service)
- Electrics upgrades and mods
- Headstock break repairs
- Acoustic bracing repaiir
- Bridge re-fitting
- Finish repairs
...and much more.
Services
Instruments
- Custom and hand-made electric guitars
- Bass guitars
- Cajones
- Hand-made acoustic guitars, ukuleles
Products
- Custom Pickguards
- Custom pickup rings
- Aged hardware
- Artist inspired parts
- Custom pickup flatwork
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