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About Me

Im an amateur guitar builder with five completed instruments; four acoustics and one electric. After completing a couple of furniture projects for my family I plan to build a jumbo with a cut-away; my son is wanting another electric (a guitar for each of his favorite alternate tunings you know). I'm not sure what will be after that but an archtop is on my to-do-list.

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These pictures are of an instrument I finished a couple of years ago. It is a dreadnaught using mahagany back and sides and was built for my daughter. The building technique, for the most part, was from the book Guitarmaking:Tradition and Technology: by William R. Cumpiano and Jonathan D. Natelson.Get Your Own! | View Slideshow

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Others with an interest in guitars: building, playing, listening, whatever - as long as it's about guitars!

Music:

Rock, jazz, blues, folk, bluegrass, and some classical. - Ok, I just went and looked through the artist list on my i-pod, these are a few of the artist I found. Pink Floyd, Alison Krauss, ZZ Top, BB King, Chris Tomlin, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Marc Cohn, Staind, Watermark, Eric Clapton, CCR, Sarah McLachlan, Van Halen, James Taylor, Brenton Brown, Michael W. Smith, Nickelback, Earl Klugh, ACDC, Diana Krall, Pat Metheny, Led Zepplin. Ok you get the idea - my taste is all over the place.

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A new guitar has been started! It will be an OM style with a cutaway using curly maple back and sides. Pictured here is the work in progress: Top and back with bracing glued and carved; neck-blank glued up with curly maple strip between a mahogany sandwich. I will post new pictures as the project is built. Stay tuned, It's going to be a fun build!!!Get Your Own! | View Slideshow