Someone mentioned the old Oakwood stuff...well, I've a really beautiful guitar (slim-waisted, sub-jumbo) made five years ago by David Lim, who used to work at Oakwood, and who now makes guitars etc in Manchester UK, for himself.

I've owned and played many things in my years (including a couple of Martins, Guilds), but this a simply a classic. Responsive, crisp and bell-like, and with a fabulous action. It's got darker over the last year or so, and the tone's even richer (and amazing to play with DADGAD tuning). I really don't think that even a Sobell is better than this thing.

David makes few instruments each year. They're plain but elegant and not marked by anything so vulgar as a logo on the headstock. So I'm not sure you'd recognise one.

Some nights I sit up late in the dark, playing tunes on it quietly, just like I did when I was a teenager, with my first guitar.