User:Davy Stuart

Historian by training but musician and luthier by inclination, I began building my own instruments nearly 30 years ago. Inspired and taught by the Edinburgh based master luthier, Bert Kerr in the early '80s, I first started building instruments professionally when I moved to eco-friendly New Zealand in 1989 and set up my own studio.

I offer a comprehensive range of premium quality flat-top acoustic instruments from my humidity and temperature controlled workshop in Christchurch, located in the heart of New Zealand’s spectacular South Island. Using a wide variety of the very best hand-picked, mature imported and native timbers and carefully selected quality fittings, I create instruments for clients from all over the globe, many of them professional musicians.