The Biggest Guitar Show In The UK! 

Really nice product. Most offset Bridges always tend to have at least one downside but it seems like you have covered them all, amazing

@@jorgeya2036 thank you so much! The intellectual property / parenting process took a long time, so I dedicated myself to optimising all aspects of the design (including a big focus on user experience) while that was going through. It's really over-baked - but I literally listed out every single dimension and aspect of an Offset bridge and promised myself that, whatever unique improvements the bridge has as a USP, that every single aspect of it would be best in class. So for instance, I went through about 4 or 5 versions getting the profile of the bridge (minimum saddle height relative to bridge base) a bit lower than an original bridge, so it wouldn't force some owners to shim their neck pocket to make it work. It also means if your bridge is currently scraping along the pickguard and can't be lowered any more, the Tuffset should give you just that little bit of extra room to manoeuvre and prevent scraping. In this way and many others, we've optimised the design a lot, and with some smart design packaging, it hasn't ballooned out of proportion like some of the other "engineered" locking bridges out there! I always wanted the graphics to look in place on an Offset guitar, and not to distract the eye but to fit in and perform!

@@TuffsetBridge You have a great product - now make it affordable, please

K is an everyman and that is why we watch him

Most definitely appreciate what he does!

This is all well and good but I prefer it when he's causing drama. 😉 KDH is so fair and well-researched that it's not drama for drama's sake, it's karma drama.

It's just £2k+ for a guitar that's copying something else that you can buy for £500-800. The ones they smash up first are really taking the piss too - even the drummer feels intelligent next to the idiots who buy these. My thought after the 3rd or 4th stall with another dull set of telecaster or SG copies was just how the guitar industry has stagnated with no ideas. I can't see why anyone would pay boutique brand prices for complete non entities - less of a brand and resale than Cort but they want the money for a Suhr or custom shop big brand. As for the ticket price - they wanted £15 to go and guitar shop in Birmingham. It's just silly to pay that. A show should be about showing what's new not a bunch of retail stores trying to flog strings and straps. When I look at the people walking in the background or the sales people in each booth the striking thing is - it's tired boomers looking at boomer guitar shapes presented by boomer staff. I've never felt less like spending money on a new guitar than ever before after watching this - and it's not KDH's fault - he showed (perhaps inadvertently, he doesn't appear to have noticed it) that the guitar industry is literally dying. Everything is old, the people and the guitars. Perhaps the only interesting thing were the number putting aluminium plates on - albeit I've never really thought it was a weak point. I think Vai's magnetic back cover is a selling point. SS jumbo frets, locking tuners, roasted maple necks but I've never sat fretting that the pick guard isn't aluminium and it doesn't seem likely to make any difference to the sound, playability or looks - but at least they'd done something. Perhaps it's fair to say that if they tried to do something most of the boomers that seem to be buying guitars probably wouldn't be interested. But, you know, there's no point being a small, inconsequential brand if you just create telecaster, sg and les paul copies is there? With no benefit - not cheaper and not regarded at all as a brand. Hilditch guitars was funny asked to talk about the guitars he looked taken aback as though he never expected to be asked that question and started umming and erring like you're taking your products to a show spend 5 minutes practising talking about each of them in a mirror mate - and it's another bunch of Gibson and Fender copies zzzzzzz £2k+ for a guitar made in a shed by a guy who barely has the power of speech.

As soon as someone does something radical, few people want to know. Most guitar manufacturers have to play it reasonably safe. If it ain't broke...

@@michael1 This is deep state analysis mate. :)

Thank you for this video. It is a great source of information about local businesses that deserve support from the community. The prices on these guitars are also insanely competitive, I would love to hear your thoughts on how these compare to the big name brands and the rising competition from China.

I'm glad you found me interesting! I can't remember one second of that interview - it was our first show and I'd hardly slept, and felt completely manic and wired!! Thought I'd buggered it up, but kdh was a gentleman and obviously has great experience picking the right camera angles and stuff on the fly, absolute pro! The bridge is available to pre-order if you're interested ❤

@@TuffsetBridgeno man you looked tip top! And more importantly you have an innovative product. I’ll keep that in mind for the next time I need to install/swap a bridge.

Thank you so much! The reaction at the show (and to the launch since) has been so positive, really an amazing experience to get this design out of my head and into the real world!@@mrksdlx

It’s been an interesting journey. I played an early Eggle in the late eighties in a scroty little shop in Plymouth. It was in a league of its own - outstanding! A few years later I got a Berlin Pro with tremolo. It looked beautiful but had big problems with dead notes, tuning stability and poor intonation. Working with the shop we arranged a visit to the factory, met Patrick who was really concerned regarding the quality control that had allowed this instrument to leave his build line. He agreed to build me a hard tail Berlin with a stunning finish to my requirements. That was a great guitar. Apparently the back story was he’d expanded too quickly and had employed a bunch of laid off craftsmen from nearby Jaguar cars who could work wood but were not luthiers. The original one man band had been taken over by the accountants. I think he downsized in an attempt to regain the signature quality he was known for. His heart is definitely in it.

@@MS-Patriot2 Yeah I'm pretty sure I played a cheap acoustic somewhere along the line but I think that was from his previous company that did the whole Asia imports thing, he left that company and started again at some point building the guitars that he does now! The Headstock is a bit of a letdown TBH, it looks cheap and bulky!

​@@MS-Patriot2 From what I've heard, Patrick lost control of the company he started. Don't know the details, I was told by a former employee.

Cheers buddy 👍👍

@@karllongbottomguitars9192 Pleasure! Sorry for the C and K mix up. Love the junior style model.

You definitely have the best accent in the video. Proper West Yorkshire.

@bengreenbank , cheers buddy👍👍, appen it is 😂😂

Cheers Harry! I'm glad you like the Tuffset!!!

Cheers for the kind words about the bridge!! ❤

Why? It was just a lot of boomers making Gibson and Fender copies. You yanks actually have Gibson and Fender for starters (Although Gibson couldn't make a guitar and the design is shit as one guy pointed out as he tried to convince the audience the headstock on his cheap copy wouldn't snap off - why copy it if it's shit in the first place? No one plays les paul anyway - jimmy page is famous now for planning application arguments not music) and a bunch of people who copy them that are renowned (for no good reason really but PRS is a thing - I can't even remember the names of these British guitar makers and it's been 30 seconds since I watched the video) I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. If I was going to spend £2k-3k on a guitar it wouldn't be with any of these companies. If Matt Bellamy had taste Manson might have done something interesting but they want £13k for something that doesn't even have SS frets afaict. The sustainer pickup is interesting but as Vai notes they sound awful and it's not worth putting on a signature guitar until they learn to make a few that sound good even if he uses one for a couple of songs to get the effect (although the most notable thing about Vai's latest sig guitar is that he doesn't play it - he gets the frets scalloped, pickups changed, switches added, trem altered etc - it's the least signature guitar on the market right now - you'd be better buying an RG and doing those mods and you'd get something closer to what he's playing than the stock PIA for less money. The funny shaped holes are just making it awkward for them to polish and do the finish so it's a guitar with 2 novelty shaped holes in it that is rough and unfinished if you feel inside them because the guys at the factory can't get tools inside it - for £3k.

I guess Manson was a name before Charles, but ya gotta admit he kinda ruined it. 😉

Yep, exactly this. There's no reason to buy one and made in Britain just means the price is several fold higher than the value - and the one company shown that weren't just copying the Gibson / Fender shape look like they got someone to hold a pencil on a piece of blank paper and then prodded them with a cattle prod.

@ltcustomguitars7128 - dude! your baritone Pioneer P2! 32m 48s

Just looked on Phil’s videos, I was hoping he made a video on ig

Creativity? Is this irony or is the youtube audience now too young to know that the Telecaster, Strat, Les Paul are old. Ask your grandad what guitar his dad played.

@@michael1 I wasn't talking about those

I met Karl for the first time at the show, he's an absolute legend!!

Ha ha ha 😂brilliant, and thanks 👍

I guess they know you have more money than sense and they can just make a number up.

@@michael1 100% agree. More money than I know what to do with. Can't take it with you though so you may as well have nice things.

Thank you for the kind words about the bridge! We started taking pre-orders last week and it's going great 👍

@@TuffsetBridge I rewatched that part a few times, thats a real interesting product, be good to see where this goes!

@@iCry_88 thanks so much! You'll be seeing a lot more from us soon, and we hope to start making our own content too!

@@TuffsetBridge Yes, the bridge looks sleek but very sturdy and adjustable. Any future designs incorporating a Bigsby style tremelo system?

First song of theirs I heard too. A friend of mine played it to me because I liked Jeff Buckley and Radiohead. Love Muse's early stuff. Their later stuff not so much.

Glad you enjoyed the Fulvia 👍

@@karllongbottomguitars9192 its such a beautiful bit of craftsmanship, plays just as stunning as it looks. Them pickups were a revelation, do like sunbears :)

@@AnimalJohn85 , yeah Sunbear's are awesome 👌👍

I think they're doing the best they can to differentiate themselves. They don't have the benefit of nostalgia and tradition like Gibson and Fender. They need to take some risks if they want people to give a damn.

nothing wrong with art

I mean it is a hobby sort of thing, if u wanted a guitar only to play music and not care too much about these things u dont NEED to go to a whole ass guitar show lol

Yes and no. These guys are basically making copies of guitars that (the originals) are basically bought by middle aged collectors. But no one is collecting these brands - we've never heard of them. Once upon a time these were the guitars being played. In 1970-something, when Jimmy Page still had his hair and his teeth and he was standing drug addled playing a les paul badly it was the coolest thing on the planet. Today it's an antique (the guitar and jimmy) Peter Green came back from the dead for a bit and even he didn't want to play his old guitar - so it's kind of sad how much they're still flogging it for.

I hope we can try the Tuffset in a Bass VI soon! The intonation range is definitely suitable - it's about double the range of a standard bridge, and it frees up all the space usually taken up by the intonation springs. Our string slot is just a hair over 1.5mm wide, so I'm not sure how well some of the heavier bottom E gauges would seat into that - we'll have to try!

Like flying cars or hydrogen fusion, it's the future and it's been that way since the 1960s! 😂❤

❤🤘🙌

@@TuffsetBridge Fantastic idea. Seems like it fixes the gripes I have with my Mastery bridges.

Cheers!! 💂‍♂️🇬🇧🎸🫖☕

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So ginger then