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.

The Regal Angelus was Dobro's least expensive offering before WWII. The instrument featured a different cover plate than its more expensive siblings, was built without a soundwell, had a pressed rather than spun cone resonator and featured painted-on faux bindings. Still, it did what it did well and the model sold in great numbers during the Depression.
This instrument was given to Brian Foster, a fine leatherworker, guitar player & banjo player. I believe that this instrument was given to him as a basketcase wall instrument. It was left to Mike Nelson on Brians death and was gifted to me as it's last hope of salvation.

The instrument as received.

Deconstructing the instrument

The finishing the restoration

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