Welcome to Burgin Guitars. I handcraft acoustic guitars, Weissenborn style guitars, Irish bouzoukis and citterns at my workshop in Wellington, New Zealand (Aotearoa).
My instruments are owned and played world wide by musicians such as Henry Kaiser David Lindley, Mark Seymour, Green Ginger, Steve Bevis and Warren Love.
For many years a musician and a woodworker, my background is in chairmaking, custom furniture design and guitar repair. I have played the guitar, bouzouki, and piano for most of my life and currently play in several different groups as well as performing solo.
"...I've got two Weissenborn guitars made by Paddy Burgin in New Zealand, which are mind blowing! The quality is incredible."
-David Lindley, in Modern Guitar Magazine
You can also hear Paddy Burgin's weissenborn guitars played by David Lindley on the soundtrack of Werner Herzog's film "Encounters at the End of the World"
David Lindley playing his two Burgin Weissenborn guitars on a radio show.