Builder’s Corner – The Blog

Over the summer I did a hand applied color fade on this 7 string guitar.I’ve been wanting to do what I’m calling a black…

Hey everyone! I just wanted to post a quick update in case you missed it.I have a few guitars and basses in the works,…

Hey everyone!Recently I decided that I needed to get some long sleeves printed for wearing in the workshop… and that turned into me going…

About a year and a half ago, I was packing up everything I own to move to my new house.While I was packing I…

This is going to be a quick update, because the guitar is officially done!Finishing the GuitarI used a crystal clear water based polyurethane finish…

With the neck mostly shaped, I moved on to the next steps – pickup and neck pocket routing.RoutingThis is a set neck guitar and…

Over the past month or so since my last blog, I have gotten a lot of work done on this guitar. A lot. Needless…

This guitar is getting a custom inlay at (and around) the 12th fret. The inlay is an image of a solar eclipse that’s going…

The next part of the guitar build after shaping the body was to make the neck blank and headstock. We are working with mostly maple…

This one is going to be a pretty quick update. The glue has dried and the body is out of clamps.I cut out the body…

This guitar is going to be a semi-hollow, so hollowing out the body was the next step I took after preparing the top wood.…

When I’m about to start a new build, before I step foot in the workshop, I work on my plan of attack for the…

New build time! This one is for my friend John, who is also one of the guitarists in the band I’m in. We’ve been playing…

I’m currently in the middle of a fun build project. My friend in the band analecta asked if I could make them a matching…

When I started building, I had nowhere to work except my parents’ garage. Garages are perfectly suitable for using as a workshop, but I…