My desk.
This is the bench that I use to do set-ups.
Another bench for bigger jobs, electronics work and assembly.
View of the main shop work area.
A view of the tooling and machining area.
Another view of the tooling and machining area with guitar storage.
This is a fretless bass neck getting the final sanding after carving. This neck is made from old growth hard maple that was pulled from the bottom of a lake in Quebec. The properties of this wood are incredible. Dense, stiff and stable...this is the best neck material I've ever seen! The neck sports a 2-way adjustable truss rod, two carbon fibre re-enforcement rods and an ebony fingerboard.
This neck was made to order. My client wanted lines on the fingerboard, but instead of using a light coloured wood to fill the slots, I used aluminum strips. The effect was so cool the way the polished aluminum caught and reflected light that I decided to use aluminum for the top & side dots as well. click on photo for hi-res close up
The dreaded peghead break! No worries, it'll be as good as new when I'm done with it!
Repaired and ready to rock!
A pimped up Epiphone. Installed pickups, volume and tone controls and an N-Tune tuner at the bridge pickup volume control.
Here I am bending sides for acoustic steel string guitars.
Another view of the side bending machine. This ingenious device creates sides bent to perfection without lumps or burn marks.
A freshly bent side.
Here the sides are in the form and the kerfed linings have been glued on.
Carving a tele neck for my friend David.
I often get asked about what kinds of glues I use. Many luthiers claim that hide glue is the best. It's made from horses. This is a photo of our boy "Derby"...he prefers Titebond.
