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Fall 2009 - New Shop, New Models and Custom Instruments

Fall is here, and as the cold weather starts to hit, it's nice to be working out of my new shop. At the start of September, I finally moved into a location I'd been looking at for almost a year, right in downtown Goderich, Ontario. It is nothing fancy but is more than twice the size of my old one-room shop. The space will allow me to be better organized and to purchase a few more tools. Hopefully the result will be an increase in production!

I have been preparing to introduce a few new shapes to my current line-up. I am just finishing up the 000 prototype and it looks very promising. I will also start building two new Drednaught prototypes over the next few months; one is a standard 14-fret and the other is a 12-fret slope-shoulder. I have started to take orders for these new models and additional specs will be available on the website soon.

Be sure to check back in the coming months to see some of the custom work I have taken on. One project is an experimental guitar with double sides, a raised fretboard and no top hole. Two others include my first multi-scale guitar and a double-neck carved-top bouzouki.

I also hope to begin the design work on a line of carved-top mandolins and bouzoukis, which I plan to start taking orders for some time in 2010.

Josh