My name is Euan F Cattanach and I work out of Aberfeldy in Perthshire, Scotland making stringed instruments and have done so for the last 12 years. I was born in the sticks where I learned to make things, mend things if busted and fix things if broken, financially as well as literally as in those days living in the country you had to fix most everything at home yourself as there were no tradesmen to do it for you. So my skills were many and varied. One of these skills was wood working. My father had a good workshop and made everything from horse carts, farm gates to fine furniture. He had a great set of tools inherited from my grandfather and I was allowed and encouraged to use them which I did so to get where I wanted to be in this tale. When I wanted a good mandolin and could not afford a Stephan Sobell in Hexhamshire or a Foley from Ireland out came the old tools and skills and I made one for myself. I showed it to a semi pro player and he asked to buy it. I sold it, made an