John Liddy Mandolins

An interview with John.

Mandolin and guitar maker John Liddy from South Australia gives an interview with Paul Thompson.

I made my first guitar in the early 1990s for my young son who had just started to play. It was a Telecaster copy and little did I realise the implications this project would have. The first arch-top guitar soon followed. The wood tone blew me away. I came from a background of fine woodworking. Suddenly, I was making things that were alive, rather than furniture whose destiny was to sit in a corner looking nice, waiting to be dusted every now and then – John Liddy

Read the full interview on his website.