If your guitar ain't' what it used to be it may just be in need of a set-up. I can sort it for you at a very competitive rate. Please contact me on 01900 814113, or Billy Bowman Music in Cockermouth, 01900 826708. Why not visit Bill's website at www.billybowmanmusic.com

DON'T DIY IT! You could end up with more bits than you started with. Just give me a call and I'll see if I can help.

This was a nice repair to do on this well used old Hofner. The customer wanted me to make it playable again because it had developed a large crack on the front and the top was coming off too.  It belonged to the owners Father who had done all the fantastic artwork when he was a young man. Everything except the strings and bridge has been painted. I like the matchsick on the bridge and the drawing pin on the photo. Just in case you think that it still has a crack below the sound hole...........Guess what! It's painted on.

THESE ARE SOME OF MY FAVOURITE GUITARS

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Here we have a picture of my favourite guitar. It's the James D'Aquisto model and it was made in Sweden by Hagstrom. It plays as good as it looks and it is about 30 year old. It cost me £650 and I still wonder how I got that amount of money in 1970. Must have been in the days when my bank manager liked to say YES!

I bought this one in 1993. It's a Patrick Eggle New York and it plays like a dream. I played the Hagstrom all the time until I came across  this little devil while on the look-out for a guitar for a pupil of mine. I told the boys parents that I'd found him a little corker and suggested that they buy it quick.  I'm glad to say that they didn't take my advice and they decided to spend £1100 on another Eggle model instead. A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do, so I bought It. £550 well spent!

In the early 60's when I first started playing in the 'Meteors' we would often go to the local dance hall in Maryport to watch the opposition play. That was when I first fell in love with a blue Fender strat, and boy did I want one, NOW!!!!. I thought to myself, someday I'm having one of those. Well folks! thanks to my wife Lesley I have one NOW !!..............Although it did take me 44 years.     

Now this one is my latest. It's a PEERLESS WIZARD and what a guitar this turned out to be. I've played more guitar since I bought this than I've played for years. It looks,plays and sounds fabulous allthough I must say it does play the odd bum note! still you can't rely on anything these day's.