Thirty years at the bench.

Richard Stevenson has spent more than thirty years working wood — as a luthier, a carpenter, and a traditional timber framer. It is unusual training for an instrument maker, and it shows: he reads timber the way a framer must, knowing how a tree becomes a beam, and a beam a soundboard.

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He builds slowly, by hand, favouring Welsh timber and traditional methods, because the instruments he makes were never meant to be hurried. Every commission begins with a conversation and ends with an instrument made for one player alone.