Luthier

I have been building guitars as a serious hobby for the best part of twenty years. I began by taking a violin making course at a local night class before discovering the luthier community in Lewes, East Sussex. I then built a guitar under the tuition of Nick Benjamin, who has since gone on to become one of the top steel-string luthiers in the country.

I work full time as a schoolteacher and as a consequence, my building hours are somewhat limited, but I do manage to make an instrument once every eighteen months or so. I’m not in a position to take on the responsibility of commissions at the moment but I often have instruments that are available for sale. If you are on the look-out for an affordable, hand-built guitar (probably at not a great deal more than the cost of the materials) then it may be worthwhile getting in touch.

I am fortunate to own a collection of tools passed down to me from my father who worked as an engineer’s patternmaker his entire working life. He in turn had inherited many of them from his grandfather and it is a joy and privilege to be able to use them today, over one hundred years later.

This is the tool chest that my father made as an apprentice in the early 1950s.