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.

Over the past fifteen years of making Autoharps the question I've been asked many times is how is it possible to produce an acoustic Harp with increased volume without resorting to the use of a P A system. The outcome of my research into this has been to produce an Autoharp which has at least 30 % more volume. The Harp you see here has a Sitka Spruce soundboard, the back of the Harp is also a quarter sawn soundboard made from Cedar. With the addition of the Walnut resonator back plus the extra soundboard I have produced a Harp which has without any doubt increased the volume & overall tone.
The resoharp has 3 mm saw cut veneered sides and is fitted with fine tuners as standard. It can be made as either a chromatic or diatonic instrument at no extra cost.
The bridges are Beech and the instrument features a clear bass scratch plate, Black chrome strap anchor points and Red chordbar felts.

The two piece book matched back made from American Walnut.	Three piece Sitka Spruce soundboard.	Internal sound-hole ring & strut blanks glued in place.	Three piece Cedar Harp back ( second soundboard)	Roughly shaped laminated pin block.
Complete Harp frame & strut blanks glued in prior to final carving.	Internal sound-hole ring & voiced soundboard struts completed.	Back struts carved & makers label glued in place.	Soundboard glued in place.	View of Harp frame jointing.
View of Harp frame jointing.	3mm Walnut sides being glued on.	Side veneers trimmed up & sanded.	Side veneers trimmed up & sanded.	Walnut fine tuner cover/ knee rest
Walnut fine tuner cover/ knee rest.	First fix of fine tuner unit & cover.	First fix of fine tuner unit & cover.	Images of Harp after undergoing the polishing process, making & gluing on the bridges, installing the bridge pins, polished bridge caps & stringing up.	Images of Harp after undergoing the polishing process, making & gluing on the bridges, installing the bridge pins, polished bridge caps & stringing up.
Images of Harp after undergoing the polishing process, making & gluing on the bridges, installing the bridge pins, polished bridge caps & stringing up.	Roughly shaped Walnut chordbar covers prior to final carving & polishing	Workshop made mounted chordbar combs.	Workshop made mounted chordbar combs.	Chordbar channel & Mahogany T section prepared ready for gluing together & milling a slot to one end & a drilled hole at the other.
Chordbars completed, polished & veneered in Birds-Eye-Maple.	Chordbars complete with Walnut buttons, my own specification light springs & felts glued on prior to cutting.	Chordbars complete with Walnut buttons, my own specification light springs & felts glued on prior to cutting.	Resonator back complete with turned Boxwood feet & branded logo.	Resonator back complete with turned Boxwood feet & branded logo.

The completed Harp.

The musician who commissioned this Harp also required a pickup to be installed although most of his gigs are acoustic. He also didn't want the Harp inlaid or the edges of the Harp bound with Boxwood.

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