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The first production Gaskell left handed acoustic
As part of my experimenting with factory-made guitars in 2023, I spent a great deal of time researching whether there might be a need in...

Gaskell Guitars Australia
Oct 23, 20242 min read


What happened to www.gaskellguitars.com.au?
I was a bit slow in renewing my domain ownership for www.gaskellguitars.com.au this year and hackers jumped on it before I got to renew....

Gaskell Guitars Australia
Oct 7, 20241 min read


Pricing (2025)
All Gaskell Custom Shop guitars are 100% made in Australia using the highest quality tonewoods, hardware and electronics sourced from all...

Gaskell Guitars Australia
Dec 20, 20232 min read


Left handed guitar knobs
One thing that all the major guitar brands utterly fail on when it comes to making left hand guitars (if they even do) is fitting them...

Gaskell Guitars Australia
Jun 3, 20231 min read


Left handed guitar pickups
Is there such a thing? Do you have to think about this when buying or upgrading a lefty guitar? Electric guitars have two types of...

Gaskell Guitars Australia
May 2, 20233 min read


Mahogany other than Swietenia: Cedrela
Cedrela is a Mahogany family genus with 13 accepted species native to the Carribbean and the Americas. Botanically Cedrela is the equivalent of Australasian Toona except that it is native to the neo-tropics. Collectively it is usually traded as "Cedro" or "Spanish Cedar." There are four main commercial species.

Gaskell Guitars Australia
Sep 10, 20205 min read


Kluson Firebird tuners
Firebird guitars have been around since the late 1950’s. There are two distinct and unique characteristics about Firebird guitars: they...

Gaskell Guitars Australia
Aug 1, 20162 min read


News 2010
DECEMBER, 2010. The Retail Industry in Australia and most of the World too, suffered very badly in the last half of 2010. With our very...

Gaskell Guitars Australia
Dec 6, 20102 min read
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