SWF Guitars

SWF Guitars I am a touring guitar technician. Now offering full guitar set ups and repairs at Bridge Mill, Hebden Bridge, UK. Cheers to Scott Findlay!

Do you have a guitar that isn't performing as well as you'd like? I can give your guitar a full new set up giving it a new lease of life and making it feel like brand new. Maybe you have fret buzz, high action or crackly pot's. Maybe you have issues with intonation and tuning. Or maybe your guitar has stopped outputting sound all together. I can sort all these problems and give you an instrument t

hat is a joy to play! Set ups include a full deep clean, fret polish, hardware check up, action setting, intonation setting, fret board oil; and electronics check and cleaning. Guitars:
Prices start from £40 a set up if you supply strings. £45 with strings supplied by me (6 string set). Basses:
Prices start from £40 a set up if you supply strings, £60 with strings supplied by me (4 string set). Please get in touch for prices on other services. Past clients include:

Mark King (Level 42)

Andy Taylor (Duran Duran/ Reef)

Matt Willis (Busted)

Cory Taylor (Slipknot, Stone Sour)

Danny Jones (Mcfly)

James Mcvey (The Vamps)

Si Delaney (Don Broco)

Charlie Simpson (Busted)

Dougie Pointer (Mcfly)

Jesse Wood (Reef/ Andy Taylor)

Tom Doyle (Don Broco)

Matt Goss (Bros)

Max Helyer (You Me At Six)

Jason Christopher Rappise (Stone Sour, Sebastian Bach, Prong)

Taylor Momsen (The Pretty Reckless)

Sonny Mayo (Ugly Kid Joe, Sevendust, Head PE, Amen, Snot)

Benjamin Francis Leftwich

Matt Barnes (You Me At Six)

Ben Philips (The Pretty Reckless)

Shaun White (Bad Things, Snowboard/Skateboard gold medalist)

Mark Damon (The Pretty Reckless)

Anthony Sanudo (Bad Things)

Sid Glover (Heaven's Basement, The Cruel Knives)

Chris Gomerson (Glamour of the Kill)

Jared Palomar (Bad Things, Augustana)

Rob Ellershaw (Heaven's Basement, The Cruel Knives)

Stew Milton (Dear Superstar)

Jay Bartlett (PRS endorsee, Counterpoint, Blackwater)

Adam Smethurst (Dear Superstar)


Testimonials

'Made up with how good my guitar sounds and feels after its set up. If you need anything doing to your guitar, I highly recommend him!' - Andrew Williams

'This 12 string needed a set-up so I took it to Scott Findlay, guitar tech for Heaven's Basement and others. If he's good enough for Sid Glover and Corey Taylor, then he's good enough for moi! If you want anything doing with a guitar, see Scott, recommended. Scott set the neck up, took a milli off the bridge, oiled, cleaned, new strings, sorted! :)' - Ziggy C

A fresh restring from last week for this classical/flamenco acoustic.This came in with very unstable tuning after a res...
14/07/2026

A fresh restring from last week for this classical/flamenco acoustic.

This came in with very unstable tuning after a restring from another tech. Some of the strings were overstretched and the headstock end wasn’t tied off properly. A little extra work on the nut slots and a l**e up ensured this guitar is always in tune.

A last minute festival headline with at .A 20hr day in 30 degree heat paid off with the guitars staying in tune and sou...
11/07/2026

A last minute festival headline with at .

A 20hr day in 30 degree heat paid off with the guitars staying in tune and sounding massive! 4 string changes, a new bass preamp fitted, a new jack socket fitted and a partridge in a pear tree.

21/05/2026

Quick neck change this week. As well as conversion bushings, I also had to drill new holes for the tuners and the string tree. I then recut the factory nut to fit the string gauge and set the radius on the nut.

A huge thank you to the lovely people at for sending me another care package over after I was running low on Fret Butte...
18/05/2026

A huge thank you to the lovely people at for sending me another care package over after I was running low on Fret Butter.

This will help keep the guitars entrusted to me in the best possible condition this summer with , and .

Thanks guys!

Here is a massively fun one! A regular customer of mine has had this neglected Mexican strat on his wall for years. It ...
22/04/2026

Here is a massively fun one! A regular customer of mine has had this neglected Mexican strat on his wall for years. It had some damage to the finish but instead of a couple of spot repairs, he wanted it relic’ing. If anyone has ever tried distressing a poly finish then you know how difficult it is to get right.

It has been:
🎸 Fully Cleaned
🎸 Finish distressed to look old
🎸 New custom shop Texas Special pickup set fitted.
🎸 Electrics checked and cleaned
🎸 Set up in D standard with 11’s
🎸 Nut l**ed
🎸 Truss rod adjusted
🎸 Action set
🎸 Intonation set

I first had a look at a few real vintage teles online. I knew my customer loved Springsteen so he was my inspiration. The 2 damaged spots showed how truly thick this finish really was and my only brief was to make sure the edges of this damage were feathered out. In the factory, they clear coat the body then hit it with a layer of colour so I had 2 different layers of poly to get through.
I used multiple tools/processes to age the finish and polish out any work marks so it looked natural. I then aged the bare wood underneath to make appear like the ‘wear’ was years old. My customer decided against aging the neck and wanted the hardware to have a freshen up.
As requested, I then burned my customer ’s logo into the back of the headstock with a soldering iron. Creating a truly personal instrument.
I then fitted a new set of custom shop Texas specials, gave it a full rewire and went about my usual setup schedule.
Set up in D standard with 11’s, this guitar plays absolutely fantastic and the custom shop pickups have elevated it to a level The Boss himself would be proud of!

All for £280 including pickups and strings.

You may have noticed I was a bit quiet on here last year. That’s because I was looking after my man from on their 20 y...
12/04/2026

You may have noticed I was a bit quiet on here last year. That’s because I was looking after my man from on their 20 year anniversary of The Poison world tour.

I started the year building a fully new, bombproof guitar rig for him. It performed fantastic over the forthcoming shows all over the world.

Wireless was taken care of by Axient with the core of the rig being 2X quad cortex. Switching and midi was through and .

Huge thanks to , , and for the guitar side of things. It sounded massive!

Loadsa shows, loadsa countries, loadsa fun!!!

A fret polish keeps those bends silky smooth and extends the life of your strings. The process I use also leaves a prote...
10/04/2026

A fret polish keeps those bends silky smooth and extends the life of your strings.

The process I use also leaves a protective residue on your frets, meaning a longer amount of time before you need another one.

A fret polish is included in all our pro setups.

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Bridge Mill
Hebden Bridge
HX78ET

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