OSBORNE GUITARS

Following my art college training, I began making instruments in 1997/8. I was first inspired by all the instruments I was seeing on the folk scene at that time as well as a handmade guitar and mandolin I'd bought a few years earlier. Tapping into my love of skilled and detailed work, I made my first guitar on an evening class with well known Spanish guitar maker, Stephen Hill in Lewes, East Sussex. I then went on to rent a bench in his busy workshop and worked with Stephen as a repairer/restorer whilst developing my own mandolin family instruments. This was the ideal training as I was immersed in a professional atmoshere and quickly learned the ropes of running a small crafts business producing high quality instruments... I went full time in 2003 and after a six month break from making whilst in South America, took on my own workshop in the Star Brewery, Lewes and started making and repairing acoustic guitars. I rented a larger workshop in 2006, took on fellow guitar maker, Nick..

Primary location: Powys United Kingdom