Category Archives: Music

  In addition to all the guitar shop projects, I’ve also been working on some of my music that I recorded this year. Here’s the first rough mix of my tune “Chasing the Rainbow”. I’m playing one of the guitars I made for Gilad Hekselman. I didnt own a guitar there for a while (haha… […]

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Here’s a rough mixed track of one of the tunes I recorded (on my model 14 semi) Weds night with my band. Pretty fun, the studio is great– it has a 1929 Steinway D piano that is insane! This was the 2nd session for my new disc, first one was some trio in January. Cant […]

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Soooo… its finally taking shape. Here’s a sneak peek at something I’ve been planning on doing for quite a while. Shop concerts broadcast from my NYC workshop! I’ll be featuring all kinds of artists on the jazz scene here. Mostly guitar oriented stuff of course (thats how I roll haha), but hopefully all kinds of […]

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Simple and rough Zoom recordings of a rehearsal with my trio a couple weeks ago! This is the core of my recording group. Just working on my tunes, sketching / adapting for trio- some mistakes here and there but also some really nice moments. Cant wait to get some gigs going with these fantastic guys! […]

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Here’s a cool archtop guitar that I initially made to have as an inventory offering. Mike Bravos was visiting NYC and by chance I was just finishing it up. He decided to scoop it up after playing it for a while. The guitar has some really special bearclaw spruce for the soundboard that I had for […]

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Jan Sturiale came by the shop a few weeks to pick up his guitar (pics coming soon!), he was visiting NYC from his home base in Italy for a string of performances. It was great to meet him, he’s a super cool guy and fantastic player. I thought I’d throw a showcase page up here on […]

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Here’s a quick and dirty zoom recording of a rehearsal / get together yesterday with some friends. I’m using my personal Model 14″ laminate 7 string as usual. We are playing some of my friend Russ Nolan‘s Latin flavored tunes. He’s a great composer / tenor player  here in the city and we are reading through […]

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I’m real excited about how my latest Model 14 laminate turned out, I made it purely for inventory which is a rare occurrence these days. I’ve been shedding on an odd meter tune I wrote recently (here’s the chart) and decided to make a little youtube video with the guitar. I recorded a rhythm backing […]

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Here’s a track i recorded the other week with my group. Its one of my original tunes yet to be titled. I have to say i have come up with a great recipe for laminate guitars, I really am pleased with the tone. Not all laminate plates are created equal! I use high quality maple […]

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Ed Cherry is a world renowned guitarist here on the scene in NYC. I thought I’d throw a blog post up with all of Ed’s info and links to his music and great new disc! Ed has a simply fantastic tone, and it AINT the guitar I made him, well maybe a tiny bit :^). […]

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Here’s a trio track i recorded the other day with some friends. Its one of my original tunes yet to be titled. I have a great recipe for laminate guitars, i really am pleased with the tone. Not all laminate plates are created equal! I use high quality maple plys for each layer, as well […]

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