After many years of writing advertising, I started building guitars in a desperate attempt to balance my karmic debt.

 

That was 2008.

 

The first one took 2 years. 2 years of making pretty much every mistake imaginable. And some that weren't. But I finished it. And apparently, guitars are not unlike potato chips. I couldn't stop after just one. 

 

And it's since taken on a life of its own.

 

I've studied voicing with Ervin Somogyi.

 

French polishing with Joshia de Jonge.

 

Fretting and setup with Dave Collins at Ann Arbor Guitars.

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I even survived Kent Carlos Everett's Master Class.

 

I'm a member of the Guild of American Luthiers and the Association of Stringed Instrument Artisans-ASIA (see what they did there?).

 

I've written for American Lutherie magazine, the quarterly publication of the Guild. 

 

So basically, what we have here is a hobby that's gotten wildly out of hand. And it's getting worse. As I gradually ease out of advertising, I'm looking forward to upping my production from my current 3 guitars/year to 8.