I finished repairs on the Guild guitar earlier this week.  First I added some internal bracing to the sides to help reinforce them. I used rare earth magnets for clamps. I had to pull the binding off around to the heel to give enough length to reattach the binding. This left a small gap right by the heel, but I […]

Last week after jamming with some friends one of them pulled out a case from the corner and asked if I’d take a look at something. What he pulled out was a pretty generic Guild dreadnought that had seen some better days. It was obviously played hard over the years (1999 on the date stamp). Severe grime on the fingerboard. […]

The 4AM alarm was almost too much to handle.  The only reason for getting up so early is to climb a mountain either before the noon thunderstorms hit or the sun turns the snow into wet mashed potatoes.  But my carpool was picking me up at 5AM and still I needed to eat, tape my feet, load my gear, slather […]

For my wife and me, perhaps our favorite time in the mountains is when we are tucked in a safe shelter and a thunderstorm rolls through.  The sounds of thunder echoing back and forth between the valley walls is something you can only experience in person.  No words can describe it.  And after the storm clears the world can be […]