Links.

Here are some links to pages of interest to me.

Syra Larkin. Artist, wife, friend, lover. Have a look at her wonderful paintings.

Del Palmer: Great mate, great player, great recording engineer.

Victor McCullough. I was lucky enough to play with Victor for a number of years and he is one of the most musical people I have ever met. An inspirational guitar player, a singer with soul, great fun to be with and a special friend.

Highlander: In my opinion the makers of the best piezo pickup/preamp system in the world. I love them and use them in acoustic guitars, acoustic bass guitars, mandolins and the Blen EUB.

Alessi Machine Heads: Nicolò Alessi makes really beautiful machine heads for steel string and nylon string guitars. I am happy to offer them as an option.

Larry Stamm. Larry supplies me with wonderful spruce and is also a fine luthier and a source of interesting interchange of ideas on guitarmaking.

Ken and Dawn had the next stand to me at Frankfurt for many years. Each day we supplied the coffee and they supplied the pastries. Ken is responsible for the SpinStrap concept as well as being a maker of electric basses and general clever dick!

Denny Ball a great friend, customer and wonderful session/live bass player. Hire him for your album!

EBS Bass Amps From Sweden. Possibly the best in the world. Now making my bass EQ.

B-Band. Make a novel acoustic pickup. They supplied me with a prototype system for an acoustic bass guitar which sounds very good and I offer their Core 99 and New Frontier pickup/preamps on my acoustic guitars.

Custom Inlay Inc are a company that make the most amazing inlays in wonderful materials. If you are looking to replicate an inlay pattern they probably have it or they can make whatever you want. Also inlay supplies. A great source and inspiration.

GuitarNation is a site run by Norman Beberman where very beautiful guitars can be found. He even has some of mine there.

The Blue Book of Guitars is a great reference source.

EUB Databass is run by Hiroshi Hasebe in Japan. If you are into EUBs, this is for you.

Glenn Weiser has a page devoted to Celtic Guitar Music and other related topics.

The Big Chill. This is the name of the company and the event run by my daughter.

Tyneside Leathercrafts make the fitted gig bags for my Blen EUBs. They do other stuff too!

Instruments. A great site for information about musical instruments.

The Dealers. Some have web pages. Better give them a mention.

Andy Brown is a friend and bassist who (amongst other things) gives bass lessons in Beds, Herts and Cambridgeshire areas of England.

We live in the Maharees near Castlegregory on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry. This is an area that is renown for it's natural beauty and rightly so. According to a guide book from the 1920s , Castlegregory is blest with a climate all it's own "as soft as a mother's smile and on a soil as fertile as God's love". Might be true in the summer but it is bloody bleak in the winter when the serial gales run in off the Atlantic! Anyway, here is a site that can tell you something about the place, Dingle Peninsula

Kerry Cottages are modern, very high quality, self catering cottages situated near Castlegregory and close to all the amenities in this area.Some years ago, when they were being furnished, I designed and made the dressers and dining tables for the owners and friends, Ray and Christine Marshall.

Focus Windsurfing are near neighbours. This area of Kerry has almost perfect conditions for all watersports for all levels of participation. These guys run courses, sell and hire equipment and offer advice.

 Dorothy Calvert is a local, talented textile artist -beautiful hand woven things.

Jill Fitzgerald is a friend who runs a delicious party catering service, Jill's Parties

Some customers. These are some of the people that have given me their URLs.

Andie Heyer, six string bassist

Christoph Navratil, electric and Blen bassist

Jason Hogan, guitar player

John McGrath guitar player

Rob King player and songwriter with Carmina

Bart Vergaert a 7 string metal freak! Not for the faint hearted!

Mike Plötzki plays a singlecut tuned to low G!