Zachary Taylor

Zachary Taylor
Ronald Zachary Taylor was a UK luthier, who learned the art in Spain in the early 1960's and went gone on to teach luthiery and inlay all over Europe.

Most of his output has been Guitars and related instruments but his catalogue did include all of the standard scales of Ukulele, plus an extra one he describes as Bass. In his case this means a scale length bigger than a Baritone so like a Tenor Guitar, Chicago tuned, but with a fat neck. I have not seen him make any Mini's though.

All of the Ukuleles I have seen made by him have spruce tops, but he uses a variety of different woods for the back and sides, and on the headstock he puts an inlayed ZT.

Towards the end of his life he had set up manufacturing of his Ukuleles and some other of his instrument designs with a firm in Vietnam, but still branding them ZT

He acted as a consultant for the Mid East range of "themed" Ukuleles.

He died in 2018