Bio:
I picked up a guitar for the first time at the tender age of thirteen, and watched my dad build one in our garage about six months later. At the time I had no idea that just one year of my young life would come to shape who I am today. We’ll that was in 1995.
I became fascinated with the process of guitar making, and over the next few years, I started getting involved, and learning the craft of woodworking. After five years of apprenticing under my father Henry, who has over thirty years of experience as a Luthier, I began coming up with some of my own designs, and experimenting with new techniques.
In 2005, after also spending three years in recording arts school, only to have the sudden realization that the thought of rolling cables in a studio on an intern wage for a few more years was not very motivating, I moved away from the Bay Area, and began working for Carvin Guitars in San Diego. I started learning about the custom guitar business, and also started thinking about my own future making guitars.
After spending three years there, I decided that the beach town lifestyle was not for me and I moved to San Francisco to set up shop. It was here where my longtime friend James Creston, and I formed a partnership making custom guitars, and in 2008 we built a new wood shop from the ground up here in the San Francisco Bay Area.
As an artist, I love to create things. It may be writing and playing music, or oil painting on canvas. But guitar making is what I am good at, and I am very passionate about my work. The meticulous side of me can be unforgiving at times, but when I take that final look at a finished instrument that came out exactly the way I imagined it before it’s existence, it feels good, and it becomes obviously clear to me why this is what I do.
