Setting up Stuart’s Chris Shiflett Telecaster marked a special moment: the for-real opening of the new RG workshop. Until this point I’d been focused mainly on getting the place cleaned up and workable-in-able. Now it’s officially up and running 🙂
Looking back there seemed to be a long wait for the tenancy to begin while Clare went through her mastectomy surgery and recover and prepared to start chemotherapy. In my mind I was giving myself until the new year to get the workshop into usable condition, even convincing myself to carry on doing set ups in the shed in the short term. But once the primary workbench was built and carpeted in the new place it felt suddenly right to commit everything and just get going. Stuart’s guitar was the perfect way to kick it all off. Since then I’ve set up a couple more guitars here – at different times of day & night (ah, the luxury!) and several more are en route.