Luthierie Photographs

Photographs of some of my instruments, both completed and in various stages of construction.


Number 19, steel-string flattop. Sitka spruce top, Indian rosewood back and sides, mahogany neck, maple binding, rosewood fretboard with satinwood inlays. Owned by Janet Wilson.


A view of the underside of the top of steel-string flattop #30, showing the carved bracing and the bubinga bridge plate.


A view of the inside of the body of #30.


A front view of #30, completed: "bearclaw" Sitka spruce top, Indian rosewood back and sides, mahogany neck, bubinga binding, rosewood fretboard with satinwood inlays. Owned by Jim Ferris.


A back view of #30.


A closeup of the rosette from #30.


A front view of #25: close-grained redwood top (taken from a house built inside a hollow redwood tree when the owners decided to add a door, so I'm told), Indian rosewood back and sides, mahogany neck, maple binding, rosewood fretboard with satinwood inlays. Owned by Joe Mahoney.


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