Links

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Ok , so heres a few links I thought you might find handy. These are based locally and are all smaller businesses/workmen - always good to support the small business like myself.

Cheap rehearsal space in Ancoats - EXR Music

Professional Handwound Guitar pickups from Chorlton - Jaime @ The Creamery

Amp Repairs

The Amp Clinic salford based valve amp reparirer Roland Lumby

Northwest Woodwind Repairs

Buying guitar parts:

Northwest Guitars - Local guitar parts suppliers

AxesRUs - Large Selection of guitar parts all very reasonable prices and free postage on everything

ToneTech Luthier supplies - Stockport

AllParts UK - Another large selection of guitar parts, hit me up I'm an official AllParts dealer

Cheap guitar strings

StringStar- Cheap guitar strings from Huddersfield

Useful Sites

Frets.com - The master at work Frank Ford

ProjectGuitar.com - Useful site

Forums

BassChat.co.uk - Friendly crowd with a great repairs/technical dept.

TDPRI.com - Friendly bunch particularly good with telecasters!

Kit Guitar Forum - really nice crowd

Musi Elctronics Forum - Great atmosphere and packed with interesing threads

Recommended Local Instrumental Teachers

Sean Bennett - Guitar and bass lessons. Available for webcam based lessons too.

Tom Favell - Guitar, Bass and vocal coaching

Respectable Music shops

Johnny Roadhouse Music - Long established family run music shop. great for 2nd had gear too - Manchester, Oxford Road

Forsyth bros Music - again Long established family run music shop. The place to go for a great dedication to acoustic instruments and sheet music - Manchester, Deansgate

Sheehan's Music Services, Leicester. Probably the best acoustic guitar specialist shop I've come across, I used to work in their repairs department

Other Luthiers and repairers

Colin Keefe Guitars - The man who trained me up in Leicester, runs luthiery courses at Loughborogh college and makes amazing bespoke instruments from his workshop in Long Eaton

Jim Huckle, fellow co-worker at Sheehan's Music. Graduate from Newark Voilin school too