My work seeks to delve into the mystique of American guitars built between the 1920s and early 40s by makers such as Martin, Gibson, but also Larson, Washburn, Bacon and Day, Lyon and Healy, as well as some classical luthiers.

There are supremely talented builders already making painstaking replica guitars so convincing that they are hard to distinguish from the originals.

Instead of this, I strive to tap into the soul of these early guitars by combining aspects and features from some of the best specimens I have run across, and reorganizing them in unique ways.

I am drawn to light guitars with a dry, but clear tone and a strong midrange presence, and therefore tend to voice my instruments as such.

I believe I can make my guitars the very best they can be by being as present and aware as possible throughout the process, and being attuned to details. Not by copying myself or others. No two pieces of wood are the same, no two moments are either.

I use well-seasoned solid woods of the highest grade, hot hide glue, dovetail neck joints, high quality tuners, and a French-polished spirit varnish, as well as occasionally nitrocellulose lacquer, and oil varnishes.

If you would like to read more about my process, please click here to read the piece On Guitars which I wrote for the Almanac of Things Mostly True.