FYLDE GUITARS

• 32200 - Manufacture of musical instruments

At senior school, the woodwork and metalwork teachers let me do whatever I wanted, and I was often in the workshops when I should have been somewhere else, even after the school closed in the evening. I would turn up at physics class with some strange device I'd made, and the headmaster arranged for me to attend three short courses at international engineering companies probably trying to get rid of me. I saw some amazing things and it gave me a real breadth of experience in manufacturing industry while it was still an important part of the UK economy. From one of those courses I came away with sections of aluminium helicopter blades, which are still around somewhere as rather odd sculptures. I have since added a used turbine blade from a Concorde engine, and I am hoping to acquire part of a Spitfire wing... Along the way I had taken to actually playing guitar, and I made two more during my teens, they were rather more serious instruments, they weren't pink, and I took one of them to..

Also known as: FYLDE GUITARS LIMITED

Registration numbers: 04999224 (CH)

Primary location: Penrith United Kingdom