From the time I saw Mike Campbell play the solo in the Tom Petty video
“You Got Lucky” and Roland Orzabal play his Strat on “Shout”, I have
been enamored with the guitar. While most people say that it was Jimmy
Page or Steve Vai that did it for them, I have these two lesser known
guitar players to thank for drawing me in to the world of guitars. What
was it exactly? I don’t know. Maybe it was the emotion that those two
solos evoked. Though neither one were technically difficult, to this
day I still can play them in my head with great enjoyment. I was, and
still am, a bit shy of performing, so I realized early on that I wasn’t
going to go tour the world in a rock band.

I grew up with great curiosity as to how and why things work. Ask my
sister what happened to some of her toys. After playing guitar for a
while, my curiosity overcame my fear, and voila!, I began to take them
apart. This led to more and more interest in the how and why, until my
dream of having someone teach me how to put together what I had taken
apart was realized.

My love of the guitar as an instrument, along with my curiosity, is
combined with an interest in history. I believe these three make for a
good basis for becoming a luthier. I am a student that will always seek
to be a master at the craft. I honestly don’t think I will get there,
but it will be fun trying….and perhaps a little frustrating as well.

If you ask me about guitars, I will have a hard time stopping, so the
website is a bit of an expression communicate with those that wouldn’t
otherwise get the chance to visit my basement and discuss luthiery and
guitars in general.