Precious

‘Precious’ was my first build. It is a dreadnought style guitar (looking a lot like an HD28), featuring:

• Indian rosewood back & ribs
• Spruce soundboard
• Mahogany neck
• Ebony fingerboard & pearl dots
• Rosewood peghead overlay
• Herringbone purfling & white binding
• Herringbone soundhole inlay
• Finished in clear waterbased lacquer
• Bone nut
• Ebony bridge & bone saddle
• D’Addario medium gauge strings
• Gotoh tuners

It has wonderful sustain, loud & strong tone... A little bassy, but then it is large & Rosewood.

Tom's OOO

My project for Tom's 18th was an OM style cutaway guitar, featuring:

• Mahogany back & ribs
• Spruce soundboard
• Mahogany neck
• Rosewood fingerboard
• pearl dots
• Rosewood pegheadoverlay
• BWB purfling & maple binding
• Abalone soundhole inlay
• Finished in clear water based lacquer over black stain
• Bone nut Ebony bridge & bone saddle
• D’Addario medium gauge strings
• Schaller tuners
• Schaller piezoelectric pickup

45th Birthday Violin

This violin & case came to us in a dilapidated, un-loved condition.

It had extensive scratching & wear to the finish, and a damaged soundboard & purfling.

We restored it to playing condition, though we don’t use it much as we’re not fiddle players and the family have to leave the house...

BenAsher Violin

This violin had been in attic storage since 1940’s, and emerged after the owners Father passed away. Typically, attic life is not kind to stringed instruments - the damp atmosphere and temperature cycling opens up joints and warps necks.

This one was not unusual - the neck joint was no longer a joint; and the top joint was open, as was the back. All the hardware was missing. Fortunately the neck and fingerboard were present and in good shape.

The heel joint was remade with Titebond; the top and back joints also. The sound post was replaced and set. We cleaned the finish without stripping – sensitive to the aesthetics and sound quality. The body was refinished with French polish.

The violin was set up with new strings, bridge, tailpiece and chin rest and returned to playing condition, and we now have a satisfied customer!

Skip Find Les Paul

This is a Les Paul style guitar that was a resurrected from a skip find. It's a nasty cheapo guitar that we found poking our of the NNDC skip in Sheringham, Norfolk. well work dragging out for a little project:

It has been extensively refurbished including:

• MOP fingerboard inlay 
• New humbuckers 
• New pickup mounts 
• Complete re-finish in black lacquer 

Future work for this guitar will include:

• Rebinding the body, peghead and fretboard 
• Inserting 'Ruby House Guitars' peghead logo 
• Repolish

MandoBanjo

This is a 1920’s Savana Mandolin Banjo, made in London, that we restored from a box of bits.

We manufactured a new dowel stick & fittings & set up the neck/pot joint, before fitting a new natural skin head. On top of this went a new maple/ebony bridge and a new tailpiece.