On Thursday, January 15th, we drove down to southern California to go to the 2009 NAMM show.  What an amazing two days we had at the show on Friday and Saturday. We saw old friends, met new friends, and made many new business contacts for guitar making, plus enjoyed seeing people we already enjoy wonderful [...]

The Madagascar Rosewood sides are bent and in the Deep Lake mold.  The tail block and the Honduran Mahogany neck block are glued in place.  The Deep Lake is our 16″ lower bout jumbo model, and this one is for a guitarist and songwriter in Anchorage, Alaska. The bookmatched Madagascar back was thicknessed and glued [...]

The new Russell slack key guitar is coming along. Here is a close-up shot of the European Spruce soundboard and bracing, showing the fan bracing going through the diagonal transverse brace. This shot shows the full soundboard fan bracing with two soundholes in the upper bout.  There is a one piece cross-grain spruce reinforcement around [...]