British-born guitar maker Patrick Eggle first became involved with lutherie as a schoolboy. In 1991, businessman Andrew Selby set up Patrick Eggle Guitars to manufacture his designs. The company was located in the English city of Coventry.

Amongst it’s early successes were the Berlin and NY models. This New York is finished in “Fire Engine Red”. By the mid-1990s, Eggle was producing up to 2,000 guitars a year, but Patrick Eggle himself left the company in 1995.

He returned to smaller scale, “heirloom” guitar production, concentrating on building flat-top and archtop acoustic guitars. Now trading as Patrick James Eggle, Eggle has since relocated to North Carolina.