JKM Guitars

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Award winning customer service
Free Setup

Free setup and 25 point QC Check on all guitars
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Over 10,000 trees planted locally on Dartmoor
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5 Star Service

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How we discovered

JKM Guitars

I first met Jacob Menear at the Birmingham Guitar Show 2022. We briefly met over a joke about me stealing his instruments. After a chuckle and a quick conversation, whilst everyone was packing up their stands, I knew Jake would have to be a person I would keep in contact with.

Since then we have met at another Birmingham Guitar Show and his instruments are now proudly on display in our store!
WM Gutiars becoming the first UK Dealer for JKM Guitars.

Jake's work is truly something special. The first time I held one I knew I was dealing with quality. The balance and drum-like quality of the box was exceptional but as soon as I looked inside the body I knew we had to get his instruments in!

There are few luthiers who put just as much or arguably even more attention to detail to the inside of the box as they do the outside. Jake's work is perfect both inside and out.

Come to the shop today to experience them for yourself and you will see exactly what I'm talking about.

True passion creates excellence.

Meet Jacob Menear

At the start, I began like most other luthiers, by tinkering and modifying some instruments I had as a teenager.

I then stumbled across the Musical Instrument course run by London Metropolitan University.

I went through my degree honing the basics of instrument making, and dabbling in more adventurous designs, such as Sympitars.

After I finished my degree with a first, I continued my studies to complete a masters degree in Musical Instruments in London. It was at this point I moved from my home village of Storrington, West Sussex, up to Downpatrick, Northern Ireland to join the ranks of one of Europe’s most renowned guitar-making companies, Lowden Guitars.

I spent 7 years there and was lucky enough to work in many different departments such as soundboard carving, inlays, and soundboard making, working on thousands of guitars during my time in the company.

After this and during the 2022 lockdown I decided to venture into self-employment once again, taking JKM Guitars and putting it out into the world.

It’s been an exciting journey getting to this point, so now I can’t wait to make more noisy boxes in the future!

Jacob K Menear BSc, Ma.