News

Festivals 2012 — We're planning to have a stall at several festivals during 2012. Those on the list so far are:

• Celtic Connections, Glasgow (February)
• Darlington Spring Thing (County Durham, March/April)
• BAAFest Music Festival (Bellingham, Northumberland, May)
• Acoustic Festival of Great Britain (Uttoxeter, Staffs., May)
• Beverley Festival (Yorkshire, June)
• Whitby Folk Week (North Yorkshire, August) 
• Fylde Folk Festival (Fleetwood, Lancs., August/September) (tbc)
• Scots Fiddle Festival (Edinburgh, November) (tbc)

We hope to add 6 or 7 more, so please check back later to see where you can find us.

2011 was our first 'festival season' — click here to find out where we went.

Payment — Good news! We can now accept payment over the phone by most major debit/credit cards.

Partnership — As of March 2011 Mark's wife, Sue, took over the role of web-person, amongst many other things! Hence the new pages (links, news), a new 'Facebook' page etc — stuff Mark may never have got round to doing.

Light chamber — It's up and running! "What's one of those?" I hear you ask. Well, this will hopefully dramatically speed up the curing (drying) of oil varnishes (used mainly on violins).

Pricing — Unfortunately, due to the current economic situation (especially the increased fuel prices), we have had to re-assess our pricing. However, for clean, responsive, hand-built instruments made from quality selected materials, we still remain very competitive.

Relocation — In December 2010 we moved from Yorkshire to the Scottish Borders. Mark's presently in the process of setting up a new workshop and hopes to be fully operational by the summer.  We had many happy years in West Yorkshire, but lack of dedicated workshop space necessitated a move. The very friendly and helpful people, great (and varied) music and stunning beaches and scenery were excellent reasons for coming north.