This page will contain links to as many luthiers as I can find working in the UK. I will include the name with a link to their website (or email, if they have no website), plus their location and main activities. Some luthiers will specialise in guitar-building, others may do repairs and maintenance.
Please do comment or email me with information on other luthiers that you know, particularly if you like their work. It would be nice to be able to put potential customers in contact with good luthiers!
Currently, the list is simply sorted alphabetically by country but I might split that into regions or counties as the list grows. I’ve also included Eire, because I received a recommendation there!
This list will be based on recommendations received. I have also found similar lists of UK luthiers at luthierdirectory.co.uk and at British Made Guitars.
England
Ambler Guitars (Buxton, Derbyshire) – Custom guitars
Andy Manson (Devon/Portugal?) – Custom guitars, archtop guitars & mandolins
Bloodstone Guitarworks (?) – Custom guitars, pickups & wiring looms
Carillion Guitars (Dorking, Surrey) – Custom guitars
Crimson Guitars (Dorchester, Dorset) – Custom guitars, toolmakers, luthier training
Daemoness Guitars (?) – Custom metal guitars (the genre, not the material)
Feline Guitars (Croydon, Surrey) – Custom guitars
Gordon Smith Guitars (Northamptonshire) – Custom guitars
Gray Guitars (SW London) – Custom guitars
Guyton Guitars (Lowestoft, Suffolk) – Custom guitars; Brian May’s luthier of choice!
HJ Williams Guitars (?) – Custom guitars
Hutchinson Guitar Concepts (?) – Custom guitars and mods, most famously for James Hetfield
Jaydee Custom Guitars (Birmingham) – Custom guitars (mainly basses)
Manchester Guitar Tech (Manchester) – Repairs and maintenance, nitrocellulose lacquers
Matt Guest (North London) – Custom guitars
Nocturne Guitars (?) – Custom guitars
Organic Guitars (Castor, Cambridgeshire) – Custom guitars
Owen Jackson Guitars (Wiltshire) – Custom guitars
Patchwork Axes (Leeds) – Custom guitars, specialising in Paisley finishes
Patrick James Eggle (Oswestry, Shropshire) – Custom guitars (electric and acoustic)
RabsWood Guitars (London) – Custom guitars, luthier services
Raygun Relics (Warrington, Cheshire) – Guitar mods and relics
Sabre Guitars (Cherry Hinton, Cambridgeshire) – Custom guitars
Serpentine Guitars (Cornwall) – Custom guitars
Seth Baccus Guitars (Devon/Portugal?) – Custom guitars
Simmett Guitars (Staffordshire) – Custom basses
Stone Wolf Guitars (Leicester) – Custom guitars
Stormshadow Guitarworks (Sheffield) – Custom guitars, repairs
Sutch Guitars (Nottingham) – Custom guitars
Swinglehurst Guitars (North Nottinghamshire) – Custom guitars
Vanquish Guitars (Peterborough, Cambridgeshire) – Custom guitars
Waghorn Guitars (Bristol) – Custom guitars (electric, acoustic & bass)
Northern Ireland
Scotland
AC Guitars (Moffat, Dumfrieshire) – Custom bass guitars
Bailey Guitars (Maybole, South Ayrshire) – Custom guitars, luthier training
McIntyre Guitars (Edinburgh) – Custom guitars, repairs
Moon Guitars (Glasgow) – Custom guitars (mainly acoustic), repairs
Taran Guitars (East Neuk of Fife) – Acoustic guitars, mandolins, bouzoukis…
Wales
Jaden Rose (Powys) – Custom guitars (also as Salvo Guitars)
Jezz Guitars / J. Woodroffe Guitars (Machynlleth) – Mainly Telecaster bodies and acoustics
Eire (Republic of Ireland)
Chris Larkin Guitars (County Kerry) – Custom guitars