Starting Line

If you want a clean house first clean each room.  I've had a few conversations recently that made me realize that we are too far sighted and, perhaps, act a bit entitled. We know what we want so that's what we look for.  The...
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Good Golly Miss Molly

Good Golly Miss Molly

I take these pictures for the customers that buy them, but I end up staring at them longer than they do I bet......
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Neck Shape

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work break

work break

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Neck Work

Neck Work

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Recently Finished Instruments

New Guy Will

Will is our new employee, and he's already got the best hair in the shop. "I'm from a mile-long beach town on the Delaware Bay, where you had to drive a half hour to get milk or bread. I started working at Musikraft four and...
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Long term review
Hmmmm

Hmmmm

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Review

Review

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Certificate of a Authenticity

Certificate of a Authenticity

In the home stretch of the carving for the certificate of authenticity done by Jack Baumgartner. Check out the detail. ...
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Tricone in a style O body

Tricone in a style O body

Tricone in a single cone body. It’s true, see them three little circles? That’s a tricone soundwell. If I posted this on Facebook I would still get “that’s not a tricone” , but you guys know better. I’m a big fan of doing...
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Jason Momoa (Aquaman) Mulecaster

Jason Momoa (Aquaman) Mulecaster

I just completed a shell pink-steel body-celluloid pickguard -Mule pickupped Mulecaster built for sonic assault for Khal Drogo/Aquaman/Declan Harp/Jason Momoa. The story gets better but that’s for another time. -Matt...
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Balance

"Success is the balance between two ideas," a piece of advice given to me by a guitar making mentor. Do I try a new tool or process hoping it will work, or use that time to produce work I have to do? In professional guitar...
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Finish

Finish

Finish what you start. ...
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Customer Pickup

Customer Pickup

A joy of this work is seeing he look in a customer’s face when they open the case. A real treat though is seeing the look on his son’s face. ...
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Certificate

Certificate

The most intense joy of making instruments-seeing someone use what you’ve made to do something you could never do yourself. Perhaps play something that would not have been had it not been for the combination of two people’s...
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Perfection/Connection

At the NAMM show I stumbled across a guitar company's sign. In bold letters it said "THE AUTHORITY ON ACOUSTIC SOUND". It was even all capitalized.  It continued: "The pursuit of acoustic perfection is the driving force...
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NAMM

NAMM

I was invited to be part of the Boutique Guitar Showcase area NAMM. I’m here.l and happy. This will be intense. “The early settlers took up land they didn’t need and couldn’t use; they tool up worthless land just to own it....
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Mulecaster for Jason Momoa

Mulecaster for Jason Momoa

Not every day you get to build a guitar for Aquaman. ...
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