Mountain Whimsy

Picked up a new jig for doing slotted headstocks. Time to toss my old DIY jig in the junk pile. This new LMII jig does a fantastic job....

Getting rolling on bracing three new tops. I've been using Engleman spruce bracing for the past few years and really like it. It's easy...

I had the rosette production line going over the Thanksgiving break. Engleman top with herringbone rosette, Sitka top with simple double...

The archtop got a set of D'Addario Half Round Jazz Lights. These strings match the guitar perfectly in both sound and look.

As the days get short and the temperatures drop in Montana, I spend more time in the shop. Winters are when I get most of my building...

It's satisfying when all the pieces come together.

I am just finishing up the refinish on my multi-scale archtop design. This guitar will be for sale in November, just in time for an...

Back from vacation and have the great little parlor guitar in the shop.  Truly a 'parlor' guitar, as it hangs in the family room and gets...

This quick, but interesting, job came through the shop this weekend. It's a DB Original Dobro from the late 1950s. The owner filled me in...

This could be yours! I'm close to finishing up this Mayfly. Indian rosewood back and sides, mahogany neck, sitka spruce top, cocobolo...