My Visit to De Faoite Guitars.

[woodrat]

I thought that I would share with everyone the visit that I had with one of our Northern Hemisphere members Dave White of De Faoite Guitars. Dave is of course well known as a regular poster on this forum but I thought that I would look him up and say Hello on a recent trip to the UK. (Jan/Feb 2011)
I was over there for quite a few reasons...visiting friends, delivering a guitar to a friend that I had made, getting to meet other guitar makers (of course), dodging an Australian heat wave and of course, being able to access the best beer in the world....but I digress...

Dave and his wife were very hospitable and generous and we had a nice time talking guitars and swapping a few ideas. Dave makes very fine and interesting instruments that incorporate many advanced design features. I got to see some of the instruments that he has shown on his threads here such as the rebuilt Butterfly guitar and his harp guitars.

Thank you Dave very much!

[Nick]

There's something missing in that last photo...............................WHERE"S THE BEER???
Glad you had the chance to catchup with Dave, he builds some class instruments & thanks for posting this, always good to hear of members catching up with other members, albeit on the other side of the globe!

[Dave White]

It was great meeting up with John and Luke plus I got to play John's lovely Cedar/Native Olive and Lutz/Mahogany guitars - very impressive indeed and I fell in love with Native Olive.

If I ever make it across to Aus/NZ it will be really good to put a few more faces to names on this Forum.

By the way send out a big hello to Colin Symonds - he phoned me to say that he was flying out last night to a ship (via NZ) to survey the fault line of the Japan earthquake to try and work out what will be happening there next.