From South Africa to the Global Stage: Our DIY Guitar Business Journey
Starting a business takes passion, dedication, and a touch of audacity. For us, it all began in the vibrant landscapes of South Africa, where our dream of a DIY guitar business first took root way back in 2012. Today, we proudly call Australia home and celebrate our success as we...
Trade Restrictions on Rosewood
UPDATE: We have listened to the feedback received from our customers and have decided to source alternative wood types for the frets which will replace Poplar Laminate. From April 2018 onwards we will manufacture all kits that once had Rosewood with either Black or Brown Blackwood or Wenge. Rosewood has...
DIY Guitar Necks Now Available
Good evening! Hope the weekend was good to all of you. We've recently had another new development at Blackbeard's Den. We're now stocking singular guitar necks! Our end goal has always to be able to provide custom parts in order to allow our customers to build a 100% custom DIY...
DIY Guitar Kits in South Africa
Hello all! It's been a great 3 years for us so far and we still continuing to broaden our range of DIY Guitar Kits available to you, the South African market. Before we started on this venture we weren't really sure how successful our kits would be. From a personal...
Sneak Peak at What's Soon to Come
Hello all, Yes, yes - we have been very slack with updating our blog... apologies. It's something we're committing to change! Any way, for those DIY Guitar enthusiasts who are waiting for our new stock to arrive, there is not long to wait now I promise. By early March 2015...
Pickmaster - Make Your Own Plectrums!
Hope you all getting excited for the weekend! We're ecstatic to officially announce a new product to our product range - the fantastic Pickmaster! Since I first heard about this product I was intrigued - the ingenuity of it is what drew me to it. I love simple yet effective ideas...
Our Top Spots in Jozi to Find Vinyl Records
Good morning SA! It's cold outside but that's no reason not to enjoy the weekend to its fullest! I turned my Rega RP1 this morning to hear it 'cogging' which sounds like a sort of screech. Anyone know what that is? I did some research and its supposedly a common...
Youtube Guitar Lessons & Tablature App
Hello! Someone asked us a while back if we knew of any good free guitar lessons on Youtube. If anyone else is looking to start playing the guitar or simply looking to learn a few new songs to strum along to, we highly recommend giving Marty Schwartz's videos a look...
New Logo & Web Layout
Hi all, Hope the weekend is treating you well (-; So as the more perceptive of you would have already realised, we have finally changed our logo! To accompany it we have also decided to adjust the colour layout and format of our website to suite a more 'mature' theme....
Building Your First DIY Guitar Kit
Hello all, hope you are all having a fantastic July so far! I was doing my best to think up some content for another blog post and whilst brainstorming someone asked me a question which was 'what was it like building your first guitar?'. My mind suddenly darted back to...
The Projection vs. The Final Product - DIY Guitar Kits
Good day world! I hope everyone is having a fantastic day and week and month and year so far (-; We have been receiving a torrent of images from customers of ours who have finished building their very own custom DIY Guitar Kits and I must admit there is some...
A Look Back at Blackbeard's Beginnings
Dear customer/browser/e-geek or whoever may be reading this. Blackbeard's Den has been around for almost two years now and it has been one helluva adventure so far! From conception and template creation of our very first few models of DIY Guitars and partnering with Custom Studio for custom design work,...
New DIY Guitar Kits!
The last 11 months of Blackbeard's Den existence have been an absolute adventure to say the least! And all of you either in a big or small way made a contribution to that adventure so thank you for that (-; With the success of DIY Guitar range the feedback we...
What We've Been Up To As Of Late
Hi all! I have been pretty slack with blog posts lately! I'm sorry )-; I do plan on improving. I get a lot of emails from customers inquiring about different DIY guitar shapes, not just the ones we currently have listed on the website, and for that exact reason we...
Big Names in SA
With all the international stubbornness towards South Africa, I think the FIFA World Cup 2010 has done a lot of good for the reputation of South Africa not just for sports, but for the music industry too. We used to see international acts far too seldom and recently it seems...
The Beginning
Hello and welcome to Blackbeard's Blog! So December 12th 2012 marks the beginning of a new brand and the first DIY Guitar Kit supplier in South Africa. For a long time I have had the desire to build my very own guitar, but unfortunately for a lot of us, we do not...
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