I started on a project for Stan Charkey, who plays a seven-string electric guitar retuned as an Elizabethan lute. He is on staff at Marlboro college and is a composer / performer. He came by the shop last year to discuss his needs in a guitar and to show me the instrument he is currently […]
I’ve had some really great results with my laminate 14’s lately. This project is an experiment with the same body style, but this time with a carved top / back and traditional bracing. Its basically the same guitar as my floating block semi 14’s, but with no block. Gilad Hekselman came by the shop with […]
Ive been trying to document more of the guitars through recordings, as well as play my own compositions. A lot of people have been asking to hear the guitars, and its a lot of fun to record them so its a win win all around! Here’s one i did the other day with some friends […]
Heres the photo finals for Brian’s guitar that shipped out last week. Turned out great! I didn’t have a chance to do any recording with this one unfortunately, but it sounded similar to the other ones in the batch. Heres what Brian had to say about the guitar (wow thanks man!!!): Victor – The guitar […]
The Ergonomic archtop project I’ve been having so much fun working on is a wrap. It left the shop Thursday for Chicago to meet Dan, and will eventually find its home in Bangkok Thailand where he teaches. I have a bunch of stuff to present in this post about it, Ive had TONS of interest […]
James’ laminate 14″ shipped out on monday, but before it left for its new home in the UK I snapped a bunch of pics and recorded some audio. Theres an excellent recording studio right down the hall from my shop (Soundworks), and i decided to kill two birds with one stone by recording some of […]
This week I took a break from my current projects for a couple days in order to do a CNC inlay project i’ve been planning for a while. I was checking out some works by art nouveau painter Alphonse Mucha, and found one of his works “Dance” that blew me away. I decided to try […]
Here’s the last of the 4 laminates in the run, this one is a custom color request in transparent dark purple. Bryce set me a photoshop edited version of one of my previous guitars. He had come up with a deep dark trans purple color for me to reference. I’m always excited to do one […]
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