Patrick Arbuthnot, a British luthier who served an apprenticeship as a sheet-metal worker in the early 1970’s before becoming a professional musician, made this single-resonator guitar.

It was while he was on tour in North America that he decided he needed a louder acoustic instrument. He was soon producing other, similar models, which delivered the sonic power he sought. Working for an airplane restoration company led him to adopt “a more industrial appearance” as one can tell by looking at the guitar’s resonator grille.