Mark started his guitarmaking career at the age of 18 with "Patrick Eggle" guitars working with people like Trevor Wilkinson, Gary Levinson, Rob Williams and Patrick himself. He learned from masters of the art until 1998 when with his partner Carol Davies, he started his own company "Bailey Guitars", in a double decker bus. With their immensely popular "Build your own guitar" course, Mark set about teaching others to build their own dream guitars. Some have even gone on to start up their own guitarmaking Businesses including Nathan Sheppard Guitars (BYO088), Arrowhead guitars (BYO107), DBD guitars (BYO174), Ray Turley (BYO046, BYOA03), Mike Tarr (BYO132,140,BYOA02), and Dave Terry (BYO138,139,148), who all built their FIRST guitars with us... and many more have gone on to build at home for fun. We can't comment on the guitars they've made since, but there is no denying that the course has been an inspiration to many. Mark is now responsible for building over 260 guitars including Basses and acoustics and has recently added Jazz style Archtop's to his catalogue.