Claffey Guitars

Claffey Guitars Handcrafted acoustic guitars & ukuleles. The Munro Signature Series: made-to-order in the tonewood & body shape of your choice.

Ukulele building classes in Perth, Western Australia. Ricky Claffey trained in the art of lutherie under Master Luthiers, Bill Kelday and Paul Hyland, at Anniesland College. Since then, he has concentrated on developing his craft and unique approach to guitar building, as well as forming opinions on what makes a superior instrument. He values simple clean lines, classic abalone and wood combinatio

ns, and high gloss finishes. He is influenced by classic design, with a modern twist, and considers four fundamental concepts – playability, sound, aesthetics and structural integrity – to be at the forefront of every guitar’s construction. Ricky builds custom steel string guitars and ukuleles, as well as making made-to-order guitars and ukuleles from the Claffey signature series. The beautiful craftsmanship of these guitars & ukes and warm, full-bodied sound is utterly incomparable to any factory made instrument.

12/06/2016

Here's the amazing Paul Tasker taking a medium-jumbo I built in 2013 for a spin. It's matured beautifully over the past few years...I can't get over how great it sounds these days.

This guitar is currently on sale for £2000. I'm hoping to send this guitar off to a good home. If you know any players in the market for a handmade Scottish guitar, please share this video.

Photos, info and purchase are available at my online shop here: http://claffeyguitars.com/shop/..or get in touch to arrange a test drive.

There's another video of the guitar in action here: https://www.facebook.com/claffeyguitars/videos

(video recorded with iPhone so plug in your headphones for best audio)

Nifty time-lapse video of me constructing a promotional guitar for Allstar Joinery...pretty cool!https://www.youtube.com...
07/06/2016

Nifty time-lapse video of me constructing a promotional guitar for Allstar Joinery...pretty cool!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LBzESqitqU

Made in the Allstar Joinery Sustainable Production Facility by one of our highly skilled Master Craftsmen. This is an African Blackwood OM, mastergrade sitka...

A few photos of some recent commissions, a left handed Koa OM and African Blackwood OM. As always my guitars were lacque...
03/01/2016

A few photos of some recent commissions, a left handed Koa OM and African Blackwood OM. As always my guitars were lacquered by the super talented Dave Wilson at Dwilson Guitars and the photographs were taken by the awesome David Gillanders.

27/10/2015
25/10/2015

graduation day. congratulations Giorgio, Andrew and Les on some cracking wea concert ukes

17/10/2015

the making frenzy continues! Inspecting headstock symmetry

17/10/2015

Massive congratulations to graham for building his tenor Ukulele in 4 days! He even had time to fit a wonderful misi pickup to his Uke. Well done Graham.

06/10/2015

in The Steamie for a jazzy bluesy charity music night with Michael Simons (playing Claffey Guitars) and Graham Pointer (on a Collings Guitars)

20/09/2015

Get your guitar playing its best this autumn! We're offering 20% off all repairs and setups until 31st October. Stop by or message for a quote 🙌🙌✌

19/09/2015

don't get many opportunities to do this. sound testing the Munro range along with an old lowden and Collings.
all different timbers and body shapes.
gonna be fun!!

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