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Why I ended up making so many tenor guitars…
October 3, 2021
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A pair of recent tenor guitars
September 7, 2021
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Small Celtic O mandolin available now
August 4, 2021
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New Session King 6 string guitar
June 14, 2021
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Celtic mandolins, 2021 batch – last two spots available
May 17, 2021
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Why I ended up making so many tenor guitars…
October 3, 2021
A pair of recent tenor guitars
September 7, 2021
Small Celtic O mandolin available now
August 4, 2021
New Session King 6 string guitar
June 14, 2021
Celtic mandolins, 2021 batch – last two spots available
May 17, 2021
New Celtic mandolin prototype
April 30, 2021
How to tune an octave mandolin and what strings to use.
April 18, 2021
Guitar bodied octave mandolin – Parlour King OM-SS
April 13, 2021
Irish bouzouki build thread 8: final sanding, off to the spray shop
February 28, 2021
Irish Bouzouki build thread 7: binding, fretboard, neck
February 10, 2021
Irish bouzouki build thread 6 – the soundboard
February 7, 2021
Build thread 5 – Irish bouzouki – ready for the top
January 12, 2021
Irish bouzouki build thread 4 – the back goes on
January 11, 2021
Irish bouzouki build thread 3
January 7, 2021
Build thread: Irish bouzouki 2
January 6, 2021
Happy 2021. Build thread: wenge/spruce irish bouzouki
January 5, 2021
Electric short scale, 10 string Octave mandolin (cittern)
December 24, 2020
Interview – Luthier on Luthier Podcast with Michael Bashkin
November 27, 2020
A Model mandolin and Session King shipping out
November 8, 2020
Buying tonewood in Australia
September 20, 2020
New Celtic mandolin shipping out…
August 30, 2020
Guitar bouzouki all done
July 9, 2020
Model S-SS and Model S-HO comparison.
July 6, 2020
Twins
May 21, 2020
Fretting
April 27, 2020
Grain filling
April 25, 2020
neck carving
April 24, 2020
Fretboards
April 21, 2020
Necks
April 20, 2020
Binding!
April 16, 2020
Stolen guitar bouzouki found!
February 9, 2020
Parlour King tenor guitar
December 13, 2019
How to tune a tenor guitar and what strings to use
November 28, 2019
Celtic music video
September 7, 2019
An hour of music played on NK Forster Guitars
August 24, 2019
Session King Advanced guitar bouzouki
June 19, 2019
New Session King tenor guitar video
June 15, 2019
Session King ukes update
May 27, 2019
30 year old Soundboard for the 30th anniversary guitar?
April 3, 2019
Workshop burglary update
March 1, 2019
The best sounding acoustic guitar I’ve ever made
November 19, 2018
A batch of Session King ukes (updated 7/1/19)
October 29, 2018
G’day mate!
October 8, 2018
Stolen guitars update
September 8, 2018
Reward for stolen guitars
June 14, 2018
NK Forster Hexham workshop robbed – guitars stolen!
June 10, 2018
The guitar bouzouki: everything you need to know (updated 2018)
April 13, 2018
Handmade acoustic guitars – is cedar and mahogany the perfect combination?
March 10, 2018
Session King tenor guitar for sale!
January 8, 2018
The best guitar for DADGAD?
December 3, 2017
Why I don’t make sitka spruce guitars
May 26, 2017
Raising money for Beth’s cancer treatment
May 14, 2017
Japan 2017
April 21, 2017
Session King guitar “suspension”
April 6, 2017
email woes
March 25, 2017
Snaarmaarwaar pop ’round the workshop for some tunes
March 24, 2017
New Irish bouzouki, what shall we call it?
February 20, 2017
Celtic mandolins, an Irish bouzouki, a guitar bouzouki….
February 18, 2017
Buying a tenor guitar – one man’s story…
February 11, 2017
What’s on the bench? A new Model D
December 7, 2016
Guitar repair in Leipzig
November 20, 2016
What is the best DADGAD guitar? The Model C-HO
November 17, 2016
Super responsive guitar bodied octave mandolin!
November 7, 2016
Introducing the Session King advanced
October 23, 2016
New Celtic bouzouki on the bench
October 11, 2016
Ian Stephensn and his Model S on Vimeo
September 26, 2016
New luthier ebook!
August 16, 2016
Two reasons to sign up to the NK Forster guitars newsletter…
June 18, 2016
Trying to buy Tortis pickguards in Germany…
May 28, 2016
New take on the Sobell guitar design?
May 1, 2016
New Session King Gzouki
April 8, 2016
New Celtic F mandolin on the bench
February 9, 2016
Great new Celtic music band – Ímar
January 13, 2016
Loudest acoustic guitar? Another Session King review
November 23, 2015
NK Forster Guitars – Leipzig luthier
November 15, 2015
Session King review
November 9, 2015
Why are my guitars so heavy? How come they’re so loud?
October 27, 2015
One new guzouki and one happy chap!
October 12, 2015
On retreat
July 3, 2015
Barrule new album – Manannan’s Cloak
June 30, 2015
“The loudest tenor guitar I’ve ever played…”
May 31, 2015
Session King videos and sound samples
April 12, 2015
My favourite guitar – Howe Orme
February 25, 2015
Interview with Johnny Dickinson
February 1, 2015
What is a Celtic mandolin?
August 12, 2014
Studying in Japan
July 31, 2014
The guitar bouzouki: a brief and interesting history
July 8, 2014
Helping out in Cambodia 2
June 25, 2014
Helping out in Cambodia
May 28, 2014
Flashpacking minimalist travelling luthier!
April 13, 2014
New interview with Guitar Connoisseur magazine
October 21, 2013
Irish bouzouki? What about Isle of Man bouzouki? Interview with Adam Rhodes, Barrule.
June 9, 2013
What’s the best value handmade acoustic guitars?
April 14, 2013
A day at the Newark College guitar making course
April 5, 2012
A fine archtop guitar – “Oscar”
October 18, 2011
Influences V – Stefan Sobell
July 12, 2010
Influences IV – Howe Orme Guitars
July 8, 2010
Influences III – Shaker furniture
June 19, 2010
Influences II – Hermann Hauser I
June 6, 2010
Influences 1 – Selmer guitar
May 28, 2010
