Who is Paul Hoy?

I'm a dad to two fantastic kids and husband to a lovely wife. I'm an engineer and I like to make and play guitars. I live in Chippenham and i'm active in my local church.

I currently work designing brakes for trains in the Research and Development department of Knorr-Bremse Rail Systems UK. I also occassionaly undertake work as an electronics/optics consultant when someone finds me and asks me to do something interesting.

In my spare time, when i'm not fixing stuff or working on my house, i play guitar in which i'm entirely self-taught, mainly using stuff i found on the net. I have also developed an interest in building guitars. So far i've made an electric guitar modelled on a stratocaster, a Les-Paul style solid body curved top and a small travel guitar of my own devising. I'm not sure what's next as i need to finish the stuff on the house before i can make another one.