Junior High

Any reckoning of the UK’s guitar making industry has to include Patrick James Eggle, a fixture on the scene since the early 90s and now the perfect illustration of the artisan or boutique small-output maker. Patrick, like many over these past months, has seen his orders rise, he’s taken on more staff, which now total seven, and produces some 20 guitars a month.

You don’t need us to tell you that this latest creation is inspired by Gibson’s double-cut Les Paul Junior, a guitar designed at the end of the 50s and