Over the course of the last few months, I have filmed Doug working on a variety of instruments.

These videos show Dougs incredible skill during the making of several guitars.

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Quality components

I believe Shaller are making some of the best quality instrument parts available today.

When a customer specifies a tremolo on their custom build, you can not get better than Shaller tremolos.

Doug Wilkes can be seen here fixing a badly repaired bass guitar. Originally the bass is an Ibanez Blazer, and the customer took it to another luthier who really did a bad job.

The body was given a terrible laquer finish, and the neck was ruined. The electronics were also wired totally wrong.

The customer asked Doug to repair the wiring, and also make a new neck. Doug was asked to leave the finish on the body as it was, otherwise given the choice Doug would have sanded it down and used a fantastic matt laquer.

Doug can be seen here talking about repairs he has made to fix the originally 'bad' repair carried out on the guitar by a luthier down south. They put the wrong lenght neck on and so the guitar just couldn't be in tune. See how doug solved the problem and then set about fixing it. Needless to say, it plays perfectlynow and the guitar is currently in the USA and Canada on tour.

Doug has been commissioned to build a 24 string Harp Guitar. He can be seen talking about the developments that have taken place since the video was first filmed.

Doug Wilkes from wilkes guitars can be seen here showing a 5 string bass that has just been finished.

Doug is seen here putting the strings on his modern interpretation of the famous Rex Bogue Double Rainbow guitar.

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