Acoustic Guitars

My shop is located just outside the beautiful town of Goderich Ontario Canada. If you visit my shop you will not find any high-tech machines or jigs. I build my guitars entirely by hand using standard hand tools and power tools. I work alone building a limited number of guitars each year. My building style is a blend of traditional and modern techniques coupled with a few innovations of my own. From start to finish I handle every aspect of the construction of each instrument. Click here for pricing information.

The following features are standard on all my instruments

• High quality solid tonewoods
• Indian Rosewood, Mahogany or Walnut back and sides
• Spruce (Sitka, Englemann, or Lutz) or Red Cedar top
• Bound ebony fretboard, Ebony bridge
• Mahogany neck with carved volute
• Wood binding and rosette
• Black/white/black purfling with mitered joints at the tail wedge
• Mother of Pearl or Paua Abalone logo and fretboard markers
• Gotoh tuning machines
• High-gloss lacquer finished body, Satin finished neck
• Deluxe hard-shell case
• Limited lifetime warranty

Models

I am currently offering 9 models. Click on the models for details about model specific features and pricing. Please contact me for information and pricing on custom shapes or shapes which I do not have listed.

GA - Grand Auditorium
OM - Orchestra Model
000 - 000

SSD - Slope Shoulder Dreadnought

D - Standard Dreadnought

J - Jumbo
P - Piedmont (13 fret L-00)
B - Baritone
GB - Guitar-Bouzouki

A word about wood

When it comes to wood combinations for your instrument you are only limited by your imagination. While standard woods such as Mahogany and Indian rosewood continue to be popular, an ever increasing number of woods are also becoming widely accepted for use in guitar building. I did a quick count and found that I have access to over 35 different types of wood for back and sides and 10+ varieties of spruce, cedar and other woods available for tops. There are also a few other woods which I consider acceptable for use as fingerboards, bridges and necks. Rather than trying to list all of the available woods and their prices I have chosen to list the ones which are more commonly used. One reason for this is that pricing can often differ greatly depending on the supplier and the grade of wood they have available. If you are interested in a certain type of wood not listed please contact me for price and availability. Many of my suppliers will often have a small number of highly-figured or unusually exotic sets of wood. This selection of highly desirable woods is limited to a small number of sets which are only available for a few months before they sell out. Please contact me if you are interested in knowing what is currently available in these highly sought after tonewoods.