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Bond Journal
Inside the rebirth of the Bond Electraglide™
From the original 1980s innovation to its modern re-engineering, this is where the story continues.
Updates, heritage milestones, design progress and behind-the-scenes looks at the rebirth of a British icon —
born in Poole, built to break rules.
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The Shape Begins to Emerge
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
ashleybond1980
Jan 302 min read


The new Bond guitar prototype is officially underway
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
ashleybond1980
Nov 29, 20251 min read


Founders Edition
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
ashleybond1980
Nov 27, 20251 min read


Something Waking
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
ashleybond1980
Nov 24, 20251 min read


📰 Welcome to the Bond Journal
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
ashleybond1980
Nov 1, 20251 min read
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