It has been quite a while since I last wrote or did anything with this website. I have said that before, but I think this might be a new record! The last post was back in 2022, so I managed to miss an entire year… turns out renovations and full …
It is hard to believe that a whole year flew by since my last post on this blog. So many changes and projects have filled that time, and maybe I’ll be able to write about some of them here and in future posts. But I’m still here and I’m still …
I think that I have written a “new year” post almost every year since I started blogging about my guitars back in 2013. Often these posts have included my plans for the coming year, unfinished projects, goals, lists of wanted tools and other new-years-y planning content. What follows will probably …
It has been a while since I posted on here, but I have continued building through this silence. Last week I put strings on a new guitar. This new guitar is particularly exciting to me because it is going to stay with me—finally I have managed to build myself a …
It took longer than I had hoped, but I finally finished both of the guitar that I have been working on for the past few months. To recap, both guitars are cedar-topped, lattice-braced classical guitars. Guitar No. 024 is a full scale, 650mm instrument with Ziricote back and sides, and …
Since moving to this house/shop, I have been on a (slow paced) mission to improve my working situation. The first thing was to lower the bench height and put in a temporary bench top. Then, about 20 months ago, my dad and brother helped me remodel the workshop (which you …
The last time I wrote about the guitars that I am working on was back in March when I just just finished inlaying the rosettes. A lot has happened since then, and now the guitars look like guitars! In fact, I am just about ready to apply finish to the …
It has been a while since the last instalment of the “Shop Talk” series (past entries in this series can be found on my old blog here). Today’s guest is my former guitar teacher from the University of Western Ontario where I completed my Bachelor’s degree. Wilma started building instruments …
I have been trying to take full advantage of all of the advice to stay indoors over the past few days. I am still teaching (virtually), but I do have more, much-needed time in the workshop, so my projects should finally get off the ground and maybe even get finishing …
The long awaited shipping day finally came today for my 25th guitar. Generally, I think it turned out pretty well, so I thought that I would share a few pictures of the completed guitar. I learned a lot from this build, and hope to have the opportunity to build another …
