BOND JOURNAL

Forty five years ago, Bond crashed into the guitar world like something from the future. 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝. 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞. 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐥 A guitar with an aluminium stepped fretboard. Carbon fibre construction. Futuristic controls. Strange engineering. Strange ideas. The kind of instrument that made some people uncomfortable because it refused to behave like everything else around it. Some people loved it. Some people hated it. 𝐍𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐢𝐭. The

For a long time Bond has existed in fragments. Old photographs. Archive footage. Conversations. Drawings. Memories. Machined aluminium. Ideas waiting patiently in the dark. For years people have asked: “Is Bond really coming back?” The answer is now becoming very real. Over the last few months the project has moved closer than ever to completion. The next Bond prototype is entering its final stages, the Bond identity has evolved, and the vision that once only existed in our h

From Memory to Reality Over the last few months, Bond Guitars has gone from something I was talking about… to something I’m actually building. That hasn’t been straightforward. There have been setbacks. Redesigns. Questions I didn’t have answers to at the start. Moments where it would have been easy to stop and leave it as just an idea. But step by step, piece by piece, it’s been moving forward. And now, for the first time in decades… There is a new Bond guitar physically tak

For the first time in over four decades, a Bond guitar is being drawn again. Over the past few weeks we’ve been quietly moving from ideas, reference images and legacy parts into something more tangible. This week, that process took a significant step forward: the first proper CAD design work for the new Bond guitar is now underway. The design work isn’t a direct copy of the original production Electraglide. Instead, it’s being modelled from Andrew Bond’s early prototype desig

45 years ago, in a small workshop in Poole, my dad stood right here building something the guitar world had never seen.A Bond.A rule-breaker.A piece of engineering so strange, so bold, so ahead of its time that people are still talking about it today. Today, I get to say something I’ve waited my whole life to write: 🔥 The new Bond guitar prototype is officially underway. 🔥 After years of graft, setbacks, silence, persistence and a sheer bloody refusal to stay buried —the

After forty years of silence, the first movement has begun. Last night, the gate opened for just ten pieces of the new Bond era. The Founders Boards — aluminium stepped fretboards, engineered in the spirit of the originals, each one laser-etched and numbered # 01–10. #01 and #02 & #03 have already been claimed. Only seven remain. These aren’t reissues. They aren’t tributes. They are the first materials of what’s waking in the dark — the first components of something bigger

For the last few weeks, we’ve kept things quiet. Not because nothing was happening — but because too much was happening to talk about . There’s a moment in every project where the ideas stop being ideas…and start becoming matter . Metal. Weight. Edges. Geometry. We’ve crossed that line. Parts of the Bond Electraglide — shapes not machined in decades — are being recreated again. Measured again. Cut again. Not as museum pieces… but as the start of something new. Something with

Inside the rebirth of the Bond Electraglide™ From a workshop in Poole in the early 1980s came a guitar that changed everything. The Bond Electraglide™ wasn’t just ahead of its time — it was from another dimension. Forged from graphite, carved with a stepped fingerboard, and powered by digital controls when the rest of the world was still analogue — it dared to break every rule in the book. Now, four decades later, that same rebellious spirit is back. The Bond Journal exists t