News from Blackbeard's Den

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...