David Antony Reid was a multi award winning, truly handmade, bespoke, contemporary and inovative stringed instrument maker who exhibited and sold his wares all over the world.  If you'd like to hear what other people said of his work then you can check out the acclaim page right here on the website to read reviews, awards and interviews, or check out some of the quotes from various sources at the bottom of the Home page..

Amongst his other accolades David is credited with developing several modern guitar construction innovations, such as the double-edged-scalloped fretboard, the reverberation back, the mirrored compensation saddle, the multi modal soundboard bracing and purely acoustic diffraction tone control.

David also taught guitar construction at a London college for 2 1/2 years, and at his very own guitar making school in Battersea for 3 years, he also had 5 interns.

More importantly David had been highly credited for his considerate use of materials, employing timbers such as 3000+ year old bog oak, 100 year old fallen sequoia, re-claimed old Cuban and Brazilian mahogany which had previously been fire surrounds, bank counters and staircase posts; English fruit trees, sycamores and maples which fell during the 1987 hurricane in the south of England, and the very sought-after African Blackwood from the only 100% Forestry Stewardship Council approved sawmill in the world.

Since developing progressively worstening allergies to all woods, David has suffered a heightened hypersensitivity to many objects that caused him no issues at all before, this resulted in him suffering an acute anaphylactic shock after drinking beetroot juice, and he had to have his life saved by a paramedic.  Beetroot was something he had eaten his whole life and had used as a health drink for many years prior to this reaction; this was all a result of developing food pollen syndrome because of said allergies, and in turn this caused allergy related asthma, and then he developed a siliding hyitus hernia because of the extreme caughing and wretching he suffered; this also developed grade C oesophagitis to boot. With all of this extreme ill health stemming back to using tropical woods for so many years, David is now on 6 medications for life, or for as long as his allergies persist, so he now has unfortunately been forced to retire from Instrument making entirely - despite battling with these illnesses until the bitter end. But all is not lost as he still continues to receive instruments from all around the world at his Perth workshop in Scotland for a truly world class level of repair and restoration. Only the smallest of woodworking tasks can be undertaken for obvious reasons, but David's speciality is his unique, bespoke instrument setups, where it doesn't matter if your instrument is worth £100.00, or £100,000.00, he's more than happy to work with you, and you can read much, much more about this service in the "Latest News" section, under "As Low As Possible Without Buzzing, Please!" on the home page of this website. To view previous repair projects that David has undertaken you can see them on his Facebook page, this can be viewed by following the hyperlink that is the blue Facebook icon on the bottom right of any page of this website.

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