In the home stretch of the carving for the certificate of authenticity done by Jack Baumgartner. Check out the detail. ...

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...

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...

"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...

Finish what you start. ...

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. ...

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...

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...