On May 1st, I celebrated seven years of self employment. I'm extremely thankful that I have a very patient wife and supportive family. ...

I recently finished an Angelina 12 string that I'd been wanting to make for a while. It was inspired by the work of Raphael Ciani and A...

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...