This Stuff Grows on Trees (part 2) Sitka Spruce

I’m going to take a couple post and talk about write, wood selection, and properties in the wood that make it good for guitar building. I spent many years grading, sorting, and selecting wood for guitars.
Today’s Featured Wood: Sitka Spruce. If you own a guitar, chances are that it has a Sitka Spruce top. [...]

A Couple Things That Rock

Yesterday: We were driving home from swimming lessons. While flipping thru the stations, I heard the familiar: “I want you to want…me” as the song kicked off, my heart was warmed to see my 2 seven year olds and my 4 year old singing the song at the top of their voices. That song was [...]

The Next Best Thing

Not only have I been working on an acoustic guitar, but I’ve also been working on a design for a ‘lectric one too. I spent only a few months working for an electric guitar company, but I’ve always loved to play one. I don’t fancy myself to be an acoustic player or only an electric [...]

What it was…What it will be.

A few months ago I sketched out what I thought I wanted my harp guitar to look like. After tweaking it a little I blew it up to full size, and said to myself…Yikes! That’s pretty ugly. On paper and in a small scale it looked ok, but when it became 1:1 the guitar looked [...]

This Stuff Grows On Trees

So I went through some of my guitar wood this afternoon, and found that I have enough to make about 10 instruments. Varieties like Mahogany, Rosewood, and Koa to name a few.
I’m partial to Mahogany myself. It’s easy to carve, bend, sand and finish. There is not much that I can think of that is [...]