I've had a full and busy summer and haven't been too good about updating the blog. Sorry about that. I made a conscious decision a...

A few years ago my friend Mike Ammons and I were looking at the liner notes to the very excellent CD of minstrel tunes, Good For What Ails ...

This weekend I celebrated five years of making my living solely as a guitar maker. I've been making and repairing them for much longer ...

My friend Hank Sapoznik presented me with the challenge of making a tenor guitar a little while back. I was not very familiar with the inst...

I recently had the honor of making a guitar for one of my musical heroes, Mike Seeger , . I can't say enough good things about Mike. ...

I've been wanting to make a guitar for my friend Cr aig Ventresco for a long time. Craig is one of my favorite guitar players of all t...

I recently made up a batch of 12 string tailpieces for some guitars in the current batch, so I figured I would document the process. The ta...