Instrument maker and furniture restorer Quality Restoration & Bespoke Handmade Furniture. Based in the Cambridgeshire Fens, I design & make furniture to your specification and I am skilled in the restoration of antique furniture. As well as all the traditional furniture making skills I can provide veneering, marquetry, woodturning and carving to a high standard. I am an experienced French Polisher and a maker and supplier of fitted furniture. I also make Autoharps, Hammered Dulcimers and Banjos. Use the links below to view examples of my work.

Built to very high exacting standards to achieve stunning quality of sound, volume & craftsmanship required by all discerning musicians etc.
As standard, all my custom built 5 string Banjo's are fitted with Snuffy Smith 5/8 ins no 2 style bridges. I advise for all custom work you strongly consider a visit to my workshop to discuss the finer points of your requirements, i.e. special design features, inlays, set ups, & selection of timbers etc.

Custom Made Resonator 5 String Banjo
Mahogany & Maple 3 piece neck with fiddle style peg-head, fitted with Gibson pre-war style truss rod. Truss-rod cover in solid Ebony. Ebony peg-head & heel veneer, Ebony fret-board bound with boxwood, inlaid with Mother of Pearl Hearts & Flowers design. M O P side position dots. Three piece Hard Rock Maple pot fitted with a flathead bell metal tone-ring. Resonator veneered in a 12 piece segmented Fiddle-back Mahogany design, with Ebony / Boxwood bandings & edges bound also with Boxwood. Neck, Pot & Resonator French polished entirely by hand to a high gloss natural finish. All quality hardware fittings acquired from the States, i e tone-ring, one piece flange, tension ring, tension brackets, shoes, coordinator rods & adjustable kershner tailpiece.

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Custom Made Open-Back 5 String Banjo Dark polished Mahogany neck with Ebony fingerboard inlaid with adapted Florentine pattern to Brazilian Rosewood peg-head. Pot made of a 7 ply construction, fitted with Whyte Laydie tone-ring & veneered in Santos Rosewood & decorative banding. The neck is fitted with adjustable coordinator rods & Kershner adjustable tailpiece. The instrument is set up to play in the Old Timey Style.

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Custom Made Tenor Banjo

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