Instruments


Travel Guitar 002

Guitar

Travel Guitar 001 -
Tuners in the box.

Guitar

Guitar 10
Parlor Experiment

Guitar

Cigar Box Guitar #1

CBG

Bolt on neck with pickup


Guitars in Progress

The Hard Water Guitars

Guitar

Building Parlors 4 and 5

Guitar

Building Guitar 6 - Nylon String OM Cutaway

Guitar

Two-tone, nylon string OM. Redwood/cedar top, walnut/cherry back and sides, walnut/maple fretboard and bridge. This is the prototype for Guitar #7.




Blackwater River Guitars - Instruments

Guitars

Banjos

Dulcimers

CBGs


Guitars

Guitars 016 - Parlor experiment 2
Made mostly from scrap wood with with a soundboard made from a 2x4.
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Neck was made from an old ski.
Guitar 016
Guitars 11-14 - Hard Water Guitars
Two Dreadnoughts and two Grand Concerts.

Custom built for bandmates of Hard Water.

Guitars
Guitar 9 - Steel String Parlor
Cedar top, Walnut back and sides, 12 frets to the body, slotted headstock,side soundport.

Custom made for Tom Morgan.

Guitar
Guitar 8 - Steel String Parlor
Redwood top, walnut back and sides, 12 frets to the body, slotted headstock, Forentine cutaway, side soundport, cantilevered fretboard.
Guitar
Guitar 7 - Nylon String OM
Cedar top, Rosewood back and sides, 12 frets to the body, slotted headstock, fan braced top, truss rod, side soundport.

Custom made for Rich Kalakauskis.

Guitar
Guitar 6 - Nylon String OM
Two-tone, nylon string OM. Redwood/cedar top, walnut/cherry back and sides, walnut/maple fretboard and bridge.
This is the prototype for Guitar #7.
Guitar
Guitar 5 - Steel String Parlor
Cedar top, walnut back and sides, 12 frets to the body, slotted headstock

Custom made for Mike Dittrich.
Guitar
Guitar 4 - Steel String Parlor
Spruce top (from 2x4), walnut back and sides, 12 frets to the body, slotted headstock

Built for Sally.
Guitar
Guitar 3 - Steel String Dreadnought
Redwood top, cherry back and sides, walnut binding, ebony bridge, maple rosette.
Guitar
Guitar 2 - Nylon String
Spruce top, rosewood back and sides, rosewood fretboard, mahogany binding
Built for Andy Groome.
Guitar
Guitar 1 - Nylon String
Cedar strip top, walnut back and sides, cherry fretboard and binding
Guitar

Banjos

Banjo 1 - Staved rim made from walnut and maple Banjo

Dulcimers

Dulcimer 4 - Redwood Top, Walnut back and sides, maple binding

Designed and built for Jackie Laliker
Dulcimer 4
Dulcimer 3 - Top from spruce 2x4, Walnut back and sides, maple binding

Built for Gary Montgomery
Dulcimer 3
Dulcimer 2 - Cedar Strip Top, Walnut back and sides, basswood binding and walnut fretboard

Wins 2nd place, Fine Woodworking's "Scraptacular" Contest
Dulcimer 2
Dulcimer 1 - Cedar Strip Top, Cherry back and sides, cherry fretboard, banjo style tuners Dulcimer 1