Steel String Acoustic Guitars -

Base Price £3500, typically comprising

Sitka Spruce Top(Western Red Cedar or Redwood if you prefer)
Walnut or Indian Rosewood back & sides
Mahogany neck
Rosewood or Ebony fingerboard and bridge
Wood binding and purfling

Hard Case included

Alternative tonewoods and build options are available ( there may be additional cost - most commonly, adding a cutaway is £400. To add a pickup, simply add the cost of the pickup. Please contact me for the cost of alternative tonewoods, this is constantly changing.
 

Archtop Guitars -

Base Price £5000, comprising

Hand carved European Spruce top
Hand carved Flame Maple back and Flame Maple sides
Laminated maple neck with contrast striping
Rosewood or Ebony fingerboard, Ebony bridge and Ebony tailpiece
Wood binding and purfling

Hard Case included

Both steel string and nylon string archtops are designed and built as an acoustic instruments. For the steel stringed instrument there is an option for a floating pickup to be added at a cost, typically, of £300 for a Benedetto or Kent Armstrong jazz humbucker. Adding a cutaway, and this is most commonly requested, is £400.
 

Mandolins - I generally only build the larger bodied instruments - octave mandolin, cittern, and bouzouki. I build these with a common body size with differences in string courses (4 or 5 string pairs and/or unison or octave tuning) and scale length. As a guide, the base price for a specification similar to the acoustic guitar above is £2500.

Each instruments' scale length, nut width, string spacing, neck width, and neck shape & profile are all uniquely designed for each instrument to suit the individual player.

Please note that I don't normally do any inlay work other than straightforward headstock inlays or abalone / mother of pearl soundhole work - wood has a natural beauty of its own and I let that speak for itself. In any case, no inlay ever added to the tone or playability of an instrument. Well, not in my opinion anyway ....

Generally a 20% deposit is payable at the start of the build process, the balance is payable on completion. The instrument remains my property until the full account has been paid. Any shipping costs are additional.