I studied instrument making at Newark technical college 1989-1992 .I made my first set of pipes while working for oboe makers TW Howarth sometime in the early 1990's.In 1999 I moved to Bruton in Somerset and started my own business, working initialy as a sub-contractor to other makers ( TW Howarth, Jon Swayne and Geert Le Jeune) In 2001 I started to make instruments under my own name , first flutes and later bagpipes.