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Owen @ Entropia Guitars
Cork, Ireland
Owen is a new-ish luthier based in Cork, Ireland, and Entropia Guitars has joined the board with both Instagram and YouTube links.
Issue note
We missed a week, then week 12 started adding its own noise, so this one catches the benches back up for today. Six more builders have joined since the last issue, fresh gallery updates landed, and the middle stretch of Jurgs Cup 4 is starting to feel very real.
Just a reminder: 100% of profits from Jurgs Cup merch go straight to the Leukaemia Foundation in Jurgen's name.
Timeline
Jurgs Cup 4
Apr 24106 days leftNov 1
80
Builders worldwide
106
Days remaining
6
New builders
3 weeks
Catch-up span
Bench check
What changed while we were catching up?
Week 11, week 12, or somewhere in the blur between them: new photos, a design change, a tool win, a mistake rescued, or just a bench that finally got cleared enough to work on? Drop the update in the Jurgs Cup Facebook group.
Post a catch-upNew arrival
Another bench lights up
JaredGoertzen
Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada
Jared started with guitar pedals, moved into kit builds, and says each build has become a little more custom and a little more unique. Week 12 added a fresh pair of gallery uploads from the Sherwood Park bench.
Norseman Music
Vancouver Washington. USA
Norseman Music joined during week 12 after starting guitar building in January 2025. Woodworking, in his words, has become a very zen kind of stress release.
Featured builders
Builders in the frame
Oakley Custom Guitars
Willenhall, England
Builder blurb
Oakley Custom Guitars brings 27 years of hobby-building experience, with a focus on variations of established electric guitar designs and the joy of making playable instruments with the tools on hand.
Huysmans Guitars
Germany
Builder blurb
Huysmans Guitars is an IT consultant by day and guitar builder in spare time, starting out with two guitars made and a side-business idea built around good-looking budget-conscious instruments.
Salter Guitarworks
Whitstable, England
Builder blurb
Salter Guitarworks is having another crack after a long road back to building: Bailey Guitars school in 2005, a workshop that had to be sold, then workshop 2.0 and a recent two-week Crimson Guitars course.
Ian
New Zealand
Builder blurb
Kia ora from Palmerston North. Ian is a hobby builder with electric ukes and a couple of guitars behind him, building a Jurgs Cup 4 guitar inspired by The Edge while still making the choices that suit the features he wants to build in.
Watch along
JC4 Playlist
Build videos from around the cup, gathered into one place as the builds start to move.
Open playlist