After having made a batch of purfling based on the stuff the Larson brothers had used, my mind had turned back to the Larsons and more speci...

My friend Tony Klassen is a guitar collector turned builder. Tony has been collecting rare and fine instruments for about 30 years and he h...

A few years ago, a friend in Italy turned me onto the guitars of Luigi Mozzani. Mozanni was a virtuoso guitar player who eventually began m...

This post may be a little late, but it's better late than never. This is the time of year that you really need to pay attention to your...

My apologies for being delinquent on the blog updates. It's been a busy summer and things are just now starting to calm down. My family...

For the past two and a half years I've been training an apprentice, Cyrus Brown-LaGrange. I met Cyrus almost twenty years ago, back whe...

For the most part, I try to build my guitars like the old ones, but standards and expectations have changed a lot since the old days and I t...