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With NAMM out of the way, it's time for us here in the UK to have a big music show of our own, and that comes courtesy of Torn & Frayed's 'THE GUITAR SHOW 2025', held in Solihull Birmingham on March 1st and 2nd. I've exhibited at this show for a number of years now, and I'll be there again, trying to make the most of a weekend out of the office! But this year I'm also hosting a fantastic artist on the Lark Music Live Stage, with friend of the Home of Tone, Remi Harris!

I've touched on the subject of offset guitar bridges countless times, and here on the blog has certainly seen it's fair share of offset bridge waffle over the years! So why am I here yet again typing about offset bridges again? As another has crossed my path that I simply had to spotlight on the blog too.
We truly are spoilt for choice these days with a variety of bridge and vibrato solutions from cheap and cheerful to engineered to perfection pricey offerings. It's a great time to be an offset guitar fan, having said that, it can also be somewhat tricky deciding which bridge solution is the right one for you. I am in a lucky position where I am a professional guitar tech, also running a shop too. So I get to see a variety of offsets pass through my hands, providing me with plenty of chances to try a variety of bridges over the years which has been great. That's alongside my own personal offset modding journey too. I've tried my best to share those findings in prior blog articles, which get views daily, to this very day which is fantastic to see. 

There are some more regulation changes being introduced in early August 2026, which at the moment just aren't viable for me. At the end of the day, I'm a one man, micro business. I do absolutely everything myself, there's only so many hours in the day and to be totally honest, some of the upcoming changes are so labour intensive to adhere too let alone the extra costs (I have been quoted around £6000 per annum, to continue selling to the EU, to the countries I was previously), it just simply isn't viable for me. So I am having to stop all orders going into the EU I am sorry to say. 

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