It’s been six years since we featured luthier Rosie Heydenrych in our Workshop series and, since then, her reputation as a builder has become established with players who seek out the very finest in custom-built instruments. Back in 2017, Rosie operated from a small unit on an industrial estate in Newchapel on the Surrey/Sussex borders. She’s still at the same address, but has scaled up her facility considerably. “I’ve expanded quite a bit,” she says, “I was just in one little room, then I moved into the unit next door, which enabled me to buy bigger machinery. I stayed there for a couple of years and
