Martin Shepherd is a lutenist and a lute maker. His website is constantly updated with lutes for sale and includes sections like "piece of the month", a lute catalog, selecting a lute, a brief history of the lute, lute strings, tuning and temperament, octave stringing and more.

Stephen Barber and Sandi Harris are lute makers building a range of renaissance and baroque lutes, along with archlutes, theorbos and a chitarroni. They also specialize in building baroque and renaissance guitar models and vihuelas.

George Stevens is a UK lute maker specializing in the early musical instruments of the medieval, renaissance and baroque periods. His lute models are built after the designs of Gerle, Hieber, Venere and Frei. Models include 6, 7 or 8 course lutes, a treble lute, and 9, 10 or 11 course lutes. Tenor and bass lute designs are also available. Other instruments by George Stevens include gitterns, gothic harps, Bray harps, clarsachs, lap harps, citterns, vihuelas, and a 4 course guitar.