"Handmade for Hands to Play"

Stringed Instruments handmade in England by luthier David White

 

Welcome to the De Faoite Stringed Instrument website. My goals are to make instruments that look good, sound good and are a constant joy to play and look at. All instruments are hand made by myself here in Buckinghamshire, England from carefully selected woods. I make a wide range of instruments - guitars, guitar-bouzoukis & citterns, tenor guitars, harp guitars and acoustic lap slide guitars - from travel sized to baritones and include specialised instruments such as ladder braced guitars. My influences are very much European and my signature sound is big volume, projection, sustain and balance with complexities and overtones, and the player hearing the guitar to the full as their audience does.
I hand make five to ten instruments per year using carefully selected materials. I want to be sure that I build the instrument that you want – this is a balance between builder and player. My guitars have a sound, feel and style that is my own, but there are things that can be varied such as neck width and profile, action and some cosmetics to suit your style and taste. Ideally you should play my instruments first, and I usually have or can get in a number of these for this purpose.