About Stuart Newman - Luthier

I love my job. I have been building guitars for 16 years, and it has been a colourful, winding road. I was born into a family of artists and craftsmen, in fact a long line going way back to James Watt, the inventor of the steam engine and our unit of power.

I still use his tools building the instruments. I was lucky to be encouraged early - angle grinder at 11, welder at 12, jewellery tools at 13.

I have worked in everything from gold and diamonds to Vacuum bagged foam epoxy core carbon fibre.

I have made :

Every one of these skills is somehow built into who I am now, and comes into play, informing my work.

My focus is on bringing together science and intuition. I actively incorporate my interest in:

• Chaos Theory,
• aero dynamics,
• the refraction / transmition / reflection / absorbtion / resonances / of sound waves through different media and the capture and analysis of these moments of decay through ultra fast frame computer wave spectography.