Integrity. Passion. Luthier Extraordinaire. Stuart is a Pittsburgh gem.

I thoroughly enjoyed The “Stuart Day” era in my private shop, I was blessed to have his creative focus and intellect and have genuinely missed having his quiet focused companionship here in the shop, I think he will have a brilliant and long lasting career. I expect great things from Stuart, and am sure he will not disappoint! 

I gave Stuart a lot of room to do what he wanted to do, and I am very pleased that I did. The instrument he delivered to me is spectacular, the attention to detail is incredible, the sound amazing.

While he’s pushing the boundaries of luthiery in both aesthetics and form, he lends repair work that extends his craft to just about any instrument

The one guitar I was missing was a telecaster, and who better to build it? Stuart Day. I contacted Stuart and ran the idea passed him, he was up for it… Once again, Stuart did not disappoint, it is an amazing instrument… I am very pleased and impressed with the work Stuart has done for me, I would not hesitate to recommend him.

If you want something that truly honors, commission a guitar. I hope to one day. But in the meantime, there is nowhere else I’ll go to have my guitars tweaked, honed and fixed.

In every correspondence we exchanged, his professionalism as a knowledgeable luthier and his sincere appreciation for the opportunity to do this build, made me feel at ease even though we never met in person and were on opposite sides of the country.

His guitars are an art of brilliant tonality — they are both unique and inspired, and you owe it to yourself to experience them first-hand.

He has repaired finish flaws, corrected electrical problems, replaced a poorly intonated, improperly positioned tune-o-matic with a perfectly intonated carved ebony bridge and performed a tour-de-force truss rod transplant in a Lace Helix twisted neck guitar. His approach to instrument problems is thoughtful, prices have been reasonable and his craftsmanship of the highest order.