CRAIG MCADAM

*** April 2022 - please note that I won't be taking on any new commissions or repair work for a period of time while I relocate and establish a new workshop ***... In my workshop in the Scottish Borders countryside, I build only a small number of instruments each year - principally steel string acoustic guitars and archtop guitars, but also larger bodied mandolins / citterns / bouzoukis on occasion... Instruments are built to commission and optimised for each individual player - their style of music and their style of playing. The method of construction, the body size and shape, the scale length, neck profile and string spacing are designed in conjunction with the player to produce a uniquely built instrument. Every set of tonewood used in the construction of an instrument is different in its characteristics, and each instrument is crafted to provide the best tone and response from the woods used in its construction.

Primary location: United Kingdom