Current Projects:
January/2020
- Looks like I will appear at 4
festivals in 2020. Bowersox International Guitarapalooza is late
March. (B.I.G.(er) than last year, is more like a party in many ways,
but is the most fun show of the 200 or so I've participated in.
- La
Conner, WA will happen in May. Linda will accompany me again as the
town made us feel like we were on a honeymoon. We'll drive up and back
and take a week without the dog to do it.
- Grass
Valley Bluegrass Festival isn't technically a Guitar Festival either,
but with 4 days, 20 luthiers, 3000 pickers, and plenty of business over
the years, I treat it as one. Try it.
- And then, in late October, the Woodstock
Invitational Luthiers Show, WILS. Woodstock has become the top show in
the US handbuilders circuit, anbd I am delighted to have been invited
to participate onec again.
- 2019 found
me slowing down a bit, and in September I had my Heart's Aortic valve
replaced with a tissue valve. In my case, that is code for "Pig". I
also had double bypass surgery. I have recovered nicely and am
complaining about my back more than my heart. If you are thinking of
voting for Bernie and feel he has a heart health risk, my condition is
vastly more serious, and I have a projected probable life expectancy of
16 years.
- I keep seeing people unwilling to order custom
guitars because of long wait lines. People somethimes make
assumptions and fail to actually inquire. Although my list is currently
just 5 months long, I recommend to most customers that it is a
good idea to discuss the deatils of their build for 6 months before
cutting wood. A guitar can be many things to many people, and 6 months
gives us a better shot at getting it right for YOU.
- Partly
because I like to build speculative guitars, and partly because I offer
stunningly good trade-in value of my older guitars, I am currently
sitting on 23 of my own pieces of guitar work. I keep of them listed on
my "forsale" page, but there are usually
more, as there are now.
- JB/2 is my standard 1/2" total
discrepancy MultiSacale (JB) divided by two, a 1/4" discrepance
MultiScale. Ay first blush it may sound too subtle to be worth the
trouble, but results bear it out as noticeably superior to convention 1
length fret sacal systems. I am a believer, and have made about a dozen
examples at this point.
- With its finish curing on my
window sill is an FT-16C Penngrove JB/2 (Dalbergia
tucurensis/Adirondack) which I intend to show at this year's festivals
until someone buys it. You could commission something similar, but this
one will be sold only at a show.
- While it cures, I am building an FT-0C
JB/2 (Cuban mahogany/German spruce) for a customer who plans to take
deliver at the previously mentioned B.I.G(er) event about halfway
between Austin and San Antonia in Texas.
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- A considerable time
has
been spent creating a List of
all my instrument work since day one! Unfortunately, I didn't realize I
was pursueing my lifes work for the first several years, and there is
much I do not recall. Please have a look, and if you know something I
haven't recorded, let me know. I have included the customers or current
owners names in many cases, and if yours is there against your wishes,
let me know and it will go.
- I
have written the
book you may have heard me speak of, but have lost interest in
publishing it. Just so you know. I may or may not pick that up again.
- I have recently
updated my Testimonials page. I
resisted this kind of self-promotion for years, but it turns out people
feel a lot less at risk treating themselves to my work knowing that
they are not tthe only one. You are not alone!
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