About me

Fine quality. Hand-crafted.

I am a designer and maker in England of fine quality hand-crafted early musical instruments of the medieval, renaissance and baroque periods. I have been making lutes, harps and other plucked instruments since 1989 when I enrolled at the London College of Furniture. By the summer of 1994 I had successfully completed five years of instrument making, study and research into the subject and attained a BSc. Hons.

Since leaving LCF I have continued instrument making to the high standard demanded by professional musicians and serious amateurs alike. After some time spent in the West Country I set up a permanent workshop in Kent in 1998, where I have created the majority of the over 300 instruments that I’ve now made. Though I have also made classical guitars and members of the mandolin family and have carried out numerous repairs to various types of stringed instruments, early instrument making is still very much the specialist area for which I am known, and on which concentrate. I look upon it as musical sculpture, and indeed in cases where originals are rare or no longer exist some of these instruments are partly or largely my own designs based upon iconography, informed speculation in relation to customer needs and my own, now considerable, design knowledge.

Other Services

Aside from being a luthier, I am also a writer, historian and published musician. I am available for talks, presentations and session work. If you’re interested in hiring my services, please get in touch.