DJS Guitars - David Searle

04/02/2024

Congratulations goes out to Garrick Hicks on the completion of his second build with us. This 'Super Strat' build is laced with loads of very spectacular quilted maple painted in the perfect blue colour. This guitar also has a set of Fluence humbuckers. All in all a cracking guitar. Well done Garrick

03/09/2023

THE most appropriate fathers day gift ❤️

26/08/2023

A little bit of vintage amp action at the workshop. This one's a Goldentone Reverbmaster 40 from 1964 and is proving very popular with the visitors to the workshop.

20/08/2023

Finally tracked down the missing piece. If you know, you know.
#1971

21/05/2023

Not everything you do as a luthier is glamorous. A simple re-string and clean up is a regular service. Sometimes though, some 'special' fretboard cleaning is in order. Here's a delightful image of a fretboard scraping..........yep, that's DNA gunk that had built up. Wash your hands folks! I certainly needed to wash mine after this one. 🤮🤮🤮

21/05/2023

Spraying some nitro on a Stewmac 335 kit for a client. Nice colour that he chose. Really good kit to. Not all kits available out there are equal. This one's better than most. Painting is one of the services that I do. I'm a bit of a stickler for originality when it comes to refinishing though. Restoring messed up finishes is a positive thing on old instruments. As is supplying great paint jobs on new builds. BUT messing with aged guitars with new refinishing is a real 'no no'. Having to explain to a potential client that they would be paying 'good dollars' to halve the resale price of their precious guitars if they strip and respray sometimes doesn't go down well. #

15/12/2022

First colour coats going down on this S type body. These colours are really hard to capture accurately in photos. Even with some tweaking. It looks even more beautiful in real life!

08/12/2022

The latest build from the workshop!!

David Searle shared a post on Instagram: "Here’s the latest creation from my workshop. This is a thinline Jaguar tribute guitar with all American parts. My client had very specific details in mind for this commission. This was a simple yet very demanding build that had to be perfect in every way. ...

19/10/2022

Some more Les Paul tribute images. The devil is in the detail. Fine ageing, vintage wiring, awesome hardware.
You can build one of these by djs_guitars.

17/10/2022

Les Paul tribute nearing completion. It rings like a bell. Really crisp! Some fine ageing/relicing details all over. You can make one of these at my workshop 💥

08/08/2022

Binding........how I love binding .....
Check out the last picture to see what superglue and handwork looks like....

18/05/2022

We’ve had a welcome visitor at the workshop this week. What a treat, a 1965 Goldentone Reverbmaster 60. It’s been a few decades since playing one of these. What a great sound and all Aussie construction