The Guitar Show 2025 (now with added The Bass Show) March 1st & 2nd, Cranmore Park, B90 4LF

ThorpyFX

WE (Thorpyfx and Redbeard) had an amazing show, genuinely pleased with every part of the presentation, organisation and access to customers.  it was one of our best years yet and despite WWIII on the horizon, folks were keen to engage and purchase. as a small business owner, i cant thank you all enough. Both Jason for giving us a tremendous show and customers for engaging with us so nicely. 

Jason

ThorpyFX said:

WE (Thorpyfx and Redbeard) had an amazing show, genuinely pleased with every part of the presentation, organisation and access to customers.  it was one of our best years yet and despite WWIII on the horizon, folks were keen to engage and purchase. as a small business owner, i cant thank you all enough. Both Jason for giving us a tremendous show and customers for engaging with us so nicely. 

Cheers Adrian x

Jason

TimmyO said:

Just to say - this years was the best guitar show (I mean in any guise in any time period) I've ever been to. 

Catering, parking, places to go for a sit, space to move around, and the stuff to see were all spot on - testament to the work @Jason has put in over the years working to improve every single aspect. 

Cheers Tim

crunchman

Being able to buy a coffee for £2 was great as well.  Completely different to a lot of venues.

guitars4you

crunchman said:

Being able to buy a coffee for £2 was great as well.  Completely different to a lot of venues.

Agree and a decent coffee as well 

kelpbeds

GuitarBreaks had a great show. Some very positive conversations were had and it all felt very upbeat. 

Bats_

Great show again, didn't seem as busy as last year but that was a good if that was the case.

Amazed I didn't buy anything although a few things temped me.

Jetfire

Bats_ said:

Great show again, didn't seem as busy as last year but that was a good if that was the case.

Amazed I didn't buy anything although a few things temped me.

Dont forget there was a whole new section for basses upstairs which wasn't there last time 

digitalscream

For what it's worth, the wife has decided that next year is the right time for her to show up too. This...will be interesting.

Amigo

digitalscream said:

For what it's worth, the wife has decided that next year is the right time for her to show up too. This...will be interesting.

Did it seem to her that you had too good a time?

Bats_

digitalscream said:

For what it's worth, the wife has decided that next year is the right time for her to show up too. This...will be interesting.

Clearly you spent too much at the shows in the past! 

digitalscream

Amigo said:

digitalscream said:

For what it's worth, the wife has decided that next year is the right time for her to show up too. This...will be interesting.

Did it seem to her that you had too good a time?

Bats_ said:

digitalscream said:

For what it's worth, the wife has decided that next year is the right time for her to show up too. This...will be interesting.

Clearly you spent too much at the shows in the past! 

Actually, she's seen the state of me when I get home after two days of socialising, and her plan is to come along and protect me from you lot

Amigo

Fair enough, that's what I use my wife for at social gatherings.

guitars4you

digitalscream said:

For what it's worth, the wife has decided that next year is the right time for her to show up too. This...will be interesting.

with cookies !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Roland

guitars4you said:

digitalscream said:

For what it's worth, the wife has decided that next year is the right time for her to show up too. This...will be interesting.

with cookies !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There is absolutely no chance of my wife coming, although she will send biscuits.

digitalscream

guitars4you said:

digitalscream said:

For what it's worth, the wife has decided that next year is the right time for her to show up too. This...will be interesting.

with cookies !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As @Roland pointed out...wrong wife

Mine does make a mean lasagne (despite being vegetarian), but I'm not sure that'd really work.

ScreamingDave

Roland said:

guitars4you said:

digitalscream said:

For what it's worth, the wife has decided that next year is the right time for her to show up too. This...will be interesting.

with cookies !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There is absolutely no chance of my wife coming, although she will send biscuits.

Are tickets on sale, yet? 

Crazed_Fandango

kelpbeds said:

Great show today. Lots of chatting to lovely folk. I'm on the GuitarBreaks stands. Come and say hi if you are about tomorrow. 

I did see you a couple of times and meant to say hello and how much I'm enjoyin your channel & book, but sadly our free times never aligned.

Crazed_Fandango

ThorpyFX said:

WE (Thorpyfx and Redbeard) had an amazing show, genuinely pleased with every part of the presentation, organisation and access to customers.  it was one of our best years yet and despite WWIII on the horizon, folks were keen to engage and purchase. as a small business owner, i cant thank you all enough. Both Jason for giving us a tremendous show and customers for engaging with us so nicely. 

@ThorpyFX ; I particularly liked the insult you threw at Joe from Hello Sailor FX at his stall.

I hear I was also the 1st to buy the Bearded Vulture from Redbead.  

Tuffset

Thanks Jason for putting on an amazing event!!

We had a wicked show this year - on Sunday in particular, Bobby Jarvis and another customer Steve P popped by with some amazing guitars to add to the Tuffset show stable - Jarvis's raffle guitar in gold sparkle finish by Rexter, Sun Bear Pickups WRHB in the bridge position (really sweet sound with excellent clarity, almost like a 335!) and a really nice Mojo Pickups Charlie Christian in the neck position which was an absolute beauty. I will definitely be working some of those CC pickups into my plans in future!! The guitar was set up expertly by Indra Guitars - I don't know how he got the action so low and fast, but it was literally lie playing an Ibanez (in a good way!!)

Steve brought his jaw-dropping vintage 1960 Jazzmaster that had just had a fresh refin in the original Sunburst (and setup with the Tuffset Bridge) by Huw Price, and he did an incredible job also (it was excellent also to see Huw and Ed on Sunday!) Everyone loved that guitar, and Steve even let a few well-behaved punters play the guitar as a Tuffset demo, so massive thanks to him for that!

He nipped out to the car around lunch time to bring in a more recent acquisition - a 1975 Telecaster Custom with factory Bigsby!

As many do, Steve had struggled with the original (Jazzmaster-type) vintage bridge. Although the rusty saddles did a decent job of gripping the strings, there was just too much looseness and claggy bits going on, the springs were pretty shot and it was rattling painfully, like a bag of old spanners. Tuffset's very own Max Gibson installed a fresh new Tuffset Bridge in about 5 minutes flat, and completely transformed the guitar! Steve couldn't believe what a massive difference it made, and went home with (another!) Tuffset Bridge to add to the collection. Cheers, Steve!

He was equally obliging with that guitar, and before I knew it everyone was having a go! We were plugging it in to the Orange stacks opposite, and a right royal time was had by all!

The Tele Custom was unbelievable - so, so punchy when playing through the vintage WRHB in the neck position! And it played so clearly and cleanly all the way up the neck, and on the lighter strings. It really had something of the Les Paul about it, in terms of sheer fretboard feel and bending ease. And the Bigsby worked great - despite the issues I often have with the B5, especially the retainer bar. The arm feel is still a little bit sloppy compared to an Offset vibrato (as Bigsbys often are) but the guitar overall was a monster.















Apologies if we didn't get a chance to come and check some of you out this year, will definitely do so next year! And hopefully Tim made the rounds and met some of you in person

Cheers all and take care!!
Dan