“Sockeye” Made for Singer/Songwriter Burl Sheldon in 2010. Body size – 17″ Top – Bearclaw Sitka spruce. Back and Sides – Amazon rosewood. Neck – Honduran rosewood. Back stripe and binding – Birdseye...
“Loon” Body 14.5″ across the lower bout. Sitka spruce top, Indian rosewood back and sides. Mahogany neck with an ebony fingerboard. Maple binding. 25″ scale. Tony B was at the Acoustic Alaska Guitar Camp in 2015. He had had shoulder...
Guitar 61 “Arrick’s Alaska” Arrick wanted a guitar modeled after his Grandpa Dean’s Martin D-41. This spruce top came from a log that I got from the very same Grandpa Dean, and it is some of the best spruce I have ever used. The shell...
“River Journey” Body 15″ across the lower bout. Sitka spruce top. Bubinga back and sides. Mahogany neck with an ebony fingerboard. This guitar was made for my friend Mary Pagel, who is a Bluegrass player in Fairbanks. Pagel, as she likes to be...
“Red Shoes” Beppe Gambetta is one of the world’s most accomplished flatpickers. He and I met in 2016 at the Acoustic Alaska Guitar Camp, where we were both on the faculty. Beppe was teaching. I was mostly fixing guitars. I did some fretwork on...
