Handmade guitars and guitar repairs in London since 1974. We can make your guitar sing!
Guitar repairs guitar makers and guitar setups by London’s best professional luthiers. Makers of string instruments, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, bass guitars and classical guitars. L.A. Guitars have been lovingly making, repairing and setting up guitars professionally for the last 40 years in North London. Our knowledge, insights and experience have resulted in instruments displaying the highest standards of sound and playability. Violin making and restoration is our speciality. We guarantee all our work – Your satisfaction is our aim! Check out our Testimonials
The workshop will be closed from 5th- 17th Oct
Opening hours: Monday to Thursday, 11am-6pm.
Call us if you intend to come, or if you need advice.
We are never open on weekends and bank holidays. Tel: 020 8446 2863
Wooden Butterflies (Documentary, 29 min) by Guy Natanel
Behind a small fruit garden in North London, two men handcraft guitars. Haim and David are luthiers, fashioning organic stringed instruments from recycled wood.
Tracing the birth of one dulcimer, Wooden Butterflies reveals a journey of metamorphosis: the translation of memory into music. Histories unravel as the body of the instrument takes shape from an 18th Century piano and a discarded painting of South Africa. Rather than going to waste, these tales are recycled and ravelled anew with the life stories of Haim and David. Wooden Butterflies explores the ontology of music, contemplating not only its physical forms, but also the emotions and experiences which create its possibility.
