Martyn Booth Guitars

Martyn Booth Guitars are designers and builders of high quality hand crafted guitars based in Suffolk.

A luthier since 1975, Martyn Booth worked for Gibson guitars in the UK before moving onto Yamaha UK throughout the 1980s as their guitar specialist. During this time he designed and developed the MSG/Image guitar which became something of a cult classic. He also co-designed a guitar for Martin Taylor, one of the world’s finest jazz guitarists which was used as the basis for their AEX 1500.

In 1991 he set up his own repair business in the Suffolk countryside to offer his uncompromising skill and standard of workmanship to everyone and in the mid 1990's was also a reviewer and columnist for Guitarist and Guitar Techniques magazines.

In 2002 he decided to start building his own hand crafted guitars using tried and tested traditional construction techniques to the same “no compromise”standards which have been the hallmark of his career. The Martyn Booth Classic was the first of such instruments, quickly followed by the Martyn Booth Signature.

In 2005 his brother Nigel joined the business to help develop and expand it. The company has grown steadily since then and exhibited at a national show for the first time at Music Live at the NEC in Birmingham in November 2005. The Martyn Booth Special was launched at the London Guitar Show at Wembley in 2006, the Martyn Booth Standard at the London Guitar Show at Excel in 2007.

2009 saw two more new models in the shape of the Deluxe and Special Plus.

2010 sees the release of the Standard Plus and Deluxe Plus.

Apart from many of these models being available from stock, customers also have the opportunity to specify just about every detail in the top of the range Classic and Signature Guitars.

Choose your own figured or plain maple top, ebony or rosewood fingerboard, pickups, hardware, finish and unique personalised headstock inlay. You can even specify your own neck dimensions and fretwire!

By arrangement with Oxford Guitar Gallery, Martyn Booth guitars will happily talk you through the specification process step by step, offering guidance and explanation.