Here are some links to my suppliers, colleagues and other interesting links.

Banana

Lowell Lavinger (Banana) is a dealer in vintage instruments and is selling my mandolins on consignment for me in the U.S.A. whenever I have one available (increasingly rare).

Schertler

Schertler are makers of what I think are the best sounding mandolin pickup in the world.  Made in Switzerland.

Gillian Alcock

Gillian is my great friend and colleague.  Some of the finest sounding hammered dulcimers in the world are made by Gillian, right here in my home town of Canberra.  Gillian also makes high quality soft cases.

Doug Eaton & Dale Jacobson

Doug and Dale are friends and colleagues of mine from Queensland.  Doug makes guitars, mandolas, mandolins, etc.

Steven Gilchrist

Steven Gilchrist is the maker of some of the finest mandolins ever made.  Here are a couple of pictures of a mandolin I have made by Gilchrist.

Graham McDonald

Graham is a stringed instrument maker from my home town of Canberra.

Lawrence Smith

Lawrence is a maker of fine guitars and mandolins.

Terry McGee

Terry is a maker of wooden flutes.  Another instrument maker from Canberra.

Peter Hyde

Peter is the maker of my button accordions.  I have a 2 row in G/C and a new 3 row in Acc/D/G.  Beautiful instruments that sound as good as they look  Click on any picture for a more detailed look.  Peter lives in Adelaide.

Bruce Lemmin

Bruce is a harp maker from Canberra.

Jack Spira

Jack is a old friend way back from when I first started making mandolins.

Northwest Timbers

Lewis Judy from Northwest Timbers, Oregan U.S.A. has some of the best looking U.S.A. Walnut and Maple I have ever seen.  I visited in October 1999 and gasped at the timber he has in his shed when I wandered in.  I left with a very much depleted credit card, but some beautiful mandolins will emerge from this timber.

Orcas Island Tonewoods

Bruce Harvie from Orcas Islan Tonewoods supplies me with Spruce topwood.  Bruce's Spruce has found its way into some of my best sounding mandoline.  I love Bruce's wood, he sure knows how to process tonewood.

Randy Allen

Randy Allen supplies me with pre-slotted Ebony fingerboards.  Rany has a great fingerboard slotting service.

Old World Tonewoods

John Preston from Old World Tonewood has some killer sounding Carpathian Spruce (a variety of European Spruce) and figured European Maple.

Andrew Ellis

Luthier from Perth Western Australia.

Hayzee's guide to folk instrument makers

A list of manufacturers and makers of a wide range of musical instruments.

The Guitar Sherpa A stringed instrument portal featuring all types of information on guitars, mandolins, banjos, ukuleles, dulcimers, etc.