For about the last eigh­teen months I’ve been play­ing a new acoustic gui­tar espe­cially made for me by Roger Buck­nall at Fylde Gui­tars. Roger first came up with the idea of design­ing an instru­ment exclu­sively to my own require­ments and spec­i­fi­ca­tions about two years ago, and then after a num­ber of rather involved dis­cus­sions he set to work. I have to say that in my books the fin­ished arti­cle is noth­ing other than spec­tac­u­lar. And I am cer­tainly not the only one to hold such an opin­ion. In the lat­est issue of ‘Acoustic’ mag­a­zine, Mark Tucker who ‘road tested’ the gui­tar, gave it an almighty 99/100 mark. Here is an excerpt from the write-up:

“Wow, imme­di­ately I play this gui­tar it sings clearly and deeply. I can hon­estly say that I don’t think I’ve heard a gui­tar with quite this depth of tone. It really has some vol­ume, with­out sound­ing harsh at all. Per­son­ally, I love it, and in a world of lightly strung, skinny-necked gui­tars, the Ken Nicol sig­na­ture model is very refresh­ing. The into­na­tion is spot-on right over the neck, as is the even­ness of tone. This gui­tar is a plea­sure to play. Out of the many £2,000 gui­tars I have played, this is one of the best, if not the best. It’s suit­able for almost any style of player, from singer/strummers to flat-pickers. This gui­tar per­forms exceed­ingly well, allow­ing excel­lent dynam­ics and expres­sion, what­ever your style. I really do like the finer atten­tion to detail, and the way that aes­thet­ics and func­tion­al­ity have been mar­ried together so suc­cess­fully to pro­duce what I feel is a very spe­cial instrument.”

photo by Chris Bates

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