Headed by Neil Haynes in Banbury, Oxfordshire, Haynes Guitars is an extension of the long-running Guitar & Bass Builds, which makes necks, bodies and pickups, that Neil established in 2012 after his previous life as a cabinet maker. “I’ve been building guitars for about 30 years, since I was 21,” reflects Neil today. Work started on the new range around two years ago, and with the S-style Inflection, T-inspired Fidelity and the new SC22 (a 22-fret single-cut), our offset Demeanour makes up a pretty impressive four-guitar range.
These might use shapes based on those we’ve seen countless times before, but the Haynes menu includes a seven-strong choice of metallic colours – along with other limited-run hues such as our Ultraviolet. “I use a modern polyurethane on the body,” says Neil. “It’s really thin and very different from what I was using back in the
