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Peter Marreiros
Cornerstone Guitars
Westminster, California

Wife, 4 kids (not counting myself!) and a big dog!

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Peter M.
Cornerstone Guitars
http://www.cornerstoneukes.com

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*10 year sufferer of HRS (house renovation syndrome).
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Hey that's a new one to go along with WAS, TAS and GAS...cool, and it's a perfect acronym Hrs and Hrs and Hrs.

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My Facebook Guitar Page

"There's really no wrong way, as long as the results are what's desired." Charles Fox

"We have to constantly remind ourselves what we're doing....No Luthier is putting a man on the moon!" Harry Fleishman

"Generosity is always different in the eye of the person who didn't receive anything, but who wanted some." Waddy Thomson

Rich Barbera ~ SF Bay Area

~painting contractor of 35 years
~husband to an artist & wonderful friend
~father to 1 handful of a daughter
~grandfather to a 2 year old grand-daughter who owns me!
~full time babysitter to blind yellow lab
~cycling enthusiast
~been playing guitar since early 70's
~strat & tele clone builder & repair in general
~trying to build my 1st acoustic...almost there!

Found this place to be the most informative & intimidating of all forums...Thanks all!

Rich Altieri
Amsterdam NY (Near Albany)

Father of 4, ages 20 - 29, grandfather to another 4, ages 2 - 10 and married for 33 years (to the same patient woman)

Day job: Sr. Manager Business Solutions for PPG Industries. Guide development of training and consulting services for collision repair businesses.

Started building 5 years ago as a way to cut back on workaholic tendacies and now tendacies have transferred to guitar building. Have enough wood to last through retirement (which is still 10 years away) but cant stop buying more!!!!!! Have guitars in every corner of my office, on the walls, in the cellar and cant stop building!!! Some finished, some partially finished, some I sawed in half because they were so bad (during my early learning phase). Thomas Edison once said "I have failed 1000 times at this experiement but now I know 1000 ways this wont work and I am getting closer to the answer" That is how I feel about my guitar building skills.

Carlton Macksam
Muskegon, Michigan (on the Lake Michigan coast)

Middle-aged slacker.
Been thinking about building guitars since the mid-seventies. Do you think it's TIME?

Also, singer/songwriter, guitar player (if I practiced more), visual artist (if I practiced more), amateur actor, and former Public Radio announcer.

Dean Bayles
Leucadia, CA, ( Scott-1 mile to Legoland at La Costa)

Furniture designer/builder since 1972
Looking to slow down and build acoustics.
Have a wife of 27 years, 2 daughters, 19 & 23
O yes, I'm an official old fart newby.
Been lurking a long time.

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Dean

Steve Courtright
Evanston, IL

Patent Agent for 20 years, Musician for 40 years, Husband for 20 and Dad for 18. Good with my hands. Nothing funny to say, but I love to laugh, and am laughing now at all the clever folks here.   

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"Building guitars looks hard, but it's actually much harder than it looks." Tom Buck

Lance Kragenbrink
Vandercook Lake Mi, south of Jackson, about 5 miles from Michigan State Prison

Data processing manager by day, Luthier by night
Two kids one wife of 17 years.

Oh, and Moderator of the best guitar building forum on the internet

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Mike Spencer
White Oak, Texas located about 2 hours east of Dallas, 1 hour west of Shreveport, Louisiana a small town close to Longview, Texas.

Day Job: Retiried Banker now Design/Engineer - Southern Aquascapes, specializing in Commercial & Residential Water features, work in a 7 state area designing for about 90 Contractors. Actor, Singing Cowboy & Rambo Lookalike.

Married 33 years to Debi, two children Stefani 32 and Sean 29, 4 grandkids ages 6,5,3,and 2.

Interests: Horse Ranching, my personal Petting Zoo, and guitar building

Favorite Forum: OLF

Todd Rose
Danby, NY, in the hills a few miles south of Ithaca

Husband, Papa of one daughter, fledgling guitar designer/builder, musician, writer, music educator, homesteader

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Todd Rose
Ithaca, NY

https://www.dreamingrosesecobnb.com/todds-art-music

https://www.facebook.com/ToddRoseGuitars/

No argument on that last comment by Lance-----------

Paul Harrell - Custom Furniture maker and guitar builder, married with two children( one daughter in HS and the other at IU in Bloomington) one dog and one cat. Tolerent but unrepentent 60's radical.

                    Paul Harrell paul harrell38932.9256944444

Jim Kirby
Newark, DE

By day - academic oceanographer

chinacat.coastal.udel.edu/~kirby/

(yes, and a deadhead in case no one picked that up)

By night and weekend - newbie who couldn't start and finish just one.

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Jim Kirby
kirby@udel.edu

Probably should have mentioned what I actually DO hehe

Web Developer
Graphic Designer
User Interface Developer
wannabe Industrial Designer

and now I'm being summoned to help the wife make truffles. Duty calls!

Robbie O'Brien

Guitar building instructor and author of instructional DVD's. Guitar builder by day and night. Classical guitarist, acupunturist, married 15 years, father of 3 year old son with a baby girl due at the end of September. Proud member of the OLF!

Steve Kinnaird,
Nacogdoches, Texas, the oldest and most un-pronounceable town in the state. (At least we don't live in Natchitoches, LA!)

Pastor, husband of 30 years (just last week), and steel string guitar maker.

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From Nacogdoches...the oldest town in Texas.

http://www.stephenkinnaird.com

Ronald Coates
Trinidad Guitars
High speed data transport tech for THE phone company.
Father of three 13-7-5 Husband to the best wife on the planet... sorry guys I got her! My tag line says it all.

Trying to build three or four guitars a year hoping that they will be classicals, but people keep asking for steel string guitars... Barbarians!

Wow! Look at all the new folks! Welcome!

JJ Donohue
Winona Lake, IN

- Father of 3 great sons

- Medical Device Researcher, Entrepreneuer and company starter-upper

- Guitar builder hobbyist and avid golfer

- OLF and zoot addict

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JJ
Napa, CA
http://www.DonohueGuitars.com

Walter Kiralla
Las Vegas, Nevada

Disabled Medical Technologist.
Proud father of 2 daughters. And married to a wonderful lady of 36 yrs.

Have been making guitars for about a year. I still consider myself an amature and just maybe I will consider myself a seasoned Luthier someday.

I enjoy and learn something evertime I tune in to the OLF. I also consider myself lucky to be associated with such a gathering of wonderful people in the world.

Ron Wisdom
Beebe, Arkansas (probably the finest state between Texas and Tennessee)

Math and science teacher for 36 years (high school and college). Semi-retired, they let me teach half a day.

Married to Pam for 33 years (retired science teacher). Two sons: one is a statistician the other teaches chemistry and physics. Two granddaughters, ages 4 and 1 1/2.

Play guitar, banjo, jaw harp, and kazoo too. Builder of all things wooden, but a newbie at lutherie. My best moments are sitting in the swings on the front porch of our log home and picking the banjar or guitar.

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OLD MAN formerly (and formally) known as:

Ron Wisdom

Somewhere in the middle of Arkansas......

Wes McMillian
Santo, TX (45 minutes west of Fort Worth)
Christian, Husband, Father, bluegrass picker, singer
Power Plant Operations Supervisor
Recently finished build #1. Ready to start on #2 as soon as I get my new shop set up. Completely hooked! Recently moved and am right in the middle of my own battle with HRS that's taking up all my spare time, though!westex9338933.0195949074

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Wes McMillian
Santo, TX
http://www.wesmcmillian.com

Anthony Zlahtic
Toronto, Ontario (that's Canada eh)
Married - 14 years (this past Mon)
Father - 2 daughters ages 8 and 9
Manager, Business Development for Canadian based pipeline company
Golf, Ski (badly), avid collector of wood.

Started building at roughly age 16 -- built 3 solid bodies by age 20....took about 23 years off. I've been building Archtop guitars....about to try my first flattops this fall.

Can I call my soon to be complete Archtop my 30th Anniverary Model

GD Armstrong
Yamhill OR
Father of 3 boys, 1 girl, grandfather of 2 girls
housekeeper for Sid Viscious (cat)
Owner of Newberg Music Center
Live on 97 forested acres in the Coast Range
fan of single malt Scotch, micro brews & good pipes
I've been building & repairing instruments on & off since 1956. My retirement plan is to be found face down in the sawdust someday.
GD Armstrong38933.0956134259

Tom Morici
Wilsall,Montana
off and on Acoustic Instrument Builder
repair, and restoration since 1971
I built my first guitar in 1969
Ran my Own construction and woodworking
company most of my career.
2006 retired to build Acoustic Guitars
and mandolins Full Time. It is the best
job I have ever had. I love it.
My 10th year in Montana.
I agree this is the best forum, great group
of people here. Thanks to all of you for that.

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http://www.moriciguitar.com

Mike Variano
Concord NC, 20 minutes N of Charlotte,,
Gypsy, 3 homes since November and working on #4
Shop is in boxes so i just read olf.
Father of one beautiful 15yr old girl, Tara.
Process Eng in circuit board manufacturing company
Hobbies: practicing guitar, Paragliding, moving and quite a few more.
And first to say Welcome Tom, you will like it here