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Bob Cefalu alais "The Zootman"
Married 44 years to Rosie. Proud father of 4 children,
7 & 2/9 grandchildren
Retired Senior Engineer
Pusher of Tonewood Zoot
Lousy Guitar Player
Guitar Builder when I have time

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Beautiful and unusual tone woods at a reasonable price.
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The Zootman
1109 Military Rd.
Kenmore, NY 14217
(716) 874-1498

Arnt Rian, Trondheim Norway
40 yo, father of 3, husband, architect.

Guitar and mandolin builder since 2000.

Proud, paying member of the OLF!

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Grant Taylor
melbourne, australia

-Full time mister mum w/- 19month old son
-and also with a partner who loves to go to work and who's complaining...
-worked in guitar manufacturing for 7 years
-finished building a workshop now just need to start on the interior...workbench is first cab off the rank ..tomorrow
-hobbies:- wasting far to much time on the internet

My names Doug Fir, I live just outside of Colorado Springs in Colorado. I live right next to a ranger station which is cool. Some people call me blue but not many.

   I really HATE woodpeckers! Nasty Bas**rds! I don't really have internet access but I look in the window of the ranger station and can only post when somebody leaves the computer on. It's difficult anyway. In the winter the windows normally closed, so I post in the summer!

I was born in 1910, Yup! William Taft was president! I don't really do much, just sway in the breeze, but I really enjoy that a lot! Do any of you sway much?

How about those Broncos? Football starts in a week doesn't it?Doug Fir38933.2386111111

Well, i love that expression : sway in the breeze", especially by a 90 some y/o- kid at heart! You're an inspiration to me Doug, the good air from the mountains huh?

Way to go sir!

Serge

Gary Lee
Philadelphia, PA
Biochemist
Classical guitarist
Tennis player
Married
Golden retriever shop assistant

John Watkins
Brew City, Wisconsin

CNC guy
Golf addict

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John Watkins
CNC Guitar Parts

Anthony James Karol, loving husbnad of Marion, 18 years coming up in December. 2 wonderful kids, Jonathan and Alexander, 8 - yes twins !!!! Emma the brown lab, also referred to as the 4 legged stomach. 2 fish, who shall remain nameless, makes the tombstones easier.

Retired from the telecom industry in 2001, Network Engineer and Sales Engineer. Thats what I can call it now, then they called it showing you the door - twice. Started building more, and became Mr Mom too.

Built first electric body (Explorer !!) in 1978, first acoustic in 1999. Full time builder and teacher of all things six string, or seven or eight, sometimes twelve. Used to build tube amps and cabs as well, the kind that scare people .... hahahaha - LOUD. ZZ Top RULES. Like Billy says, just turn her up to Patent Applied For...

There is truly no life like it ..... living my dream. well OK, dream was to BE Willy G, this is second best. Had to give up big aspirations when Marion said NO beard !!!!

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Tony Karol
www.karol-guitars.com
"let my passion .. fulfill yours"

Mark Anthony Tripp
Helena MT
Software Engineer/Project Manager
Bluegrass Guitar Player
Fly Fisherman
Italian Chef
Single
Share house with Gunther - 78 lb. German Shorthair Pointer

Builder of Dreads and Mandos

-Mark

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Pullman, WA

The more I know, the more I know I don't know.

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Larry Presnall
Collierville, TN
Husband of 1, (22 years today! )
Father of 2, (18 1/2 and 17 girls)
Captain to a failing airline
Soldier in the only lasting army (ask and I'll tell! )
Luthier who doesn't deserve to be in the company of most luthiers on this forum!! (Though you've all been most gracious!)

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Russ Wren
American lost in Amsterdam.
Currently longing for the Rockies.

Oh...and builds some guitars as well.

Mark Wallace
Indianapolis, In.

Day Job: Environmental Specialist for a pharmaceutical company.
Other Job: Guitar repair shop owner (15 yrs.)
Married for 17 yrs.
Father of 4 boys.

Coe Franklin
Pleasant Mills IN
(South of FT. Wayne)
Maintenance Tech, part time residential sub-contractor
Just made Grandpa status this spring,
STILL trying to get #1 OM completed. Oh the details...

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Give me 50 cents worth of regular.
Check my oil too, if you don`t mind,,,

Husband, singer, songwriter, dreamer, business owner( so I do EVERYTHING).
Build guitars and ukes when I'm not too exhausted.vpelleri38933.4167361111

Wayne Clark
Driftwood, TX - about 20 miles SW of Austin.
Technical marketing manager, 18 years in the semiconductor industry.
Married for 22 years.

Finished my first (an LMI kit) last year. Working on #2 and #3 right now.

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[QUOTE=Sam Price] Samantha Price
Wife, Christian, Mamma, Guitarist, Artist, Craftsperson, woodcarver...
Tutor's assistant in a craft college by day...hoping to get back into teaching soon..
Somewhere near the border of Wales but on the English Side... [/QUOTE]

Wow, Sam I have to apologize, I thought you were a guy!
I'm pleasantly surprised that we have another lady around here.
You and Jeanne are helping to make this place a more well-rounded forum!
I think we've only had maybe a half dozen women here through the years, and it is about time we had some balance here!



Don Williams38933.4349884259

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"I want to know what kind of pickups Vince Gill uses in his Tele, because if I had those, as good of a player as I am, I'm sure I could make it sound like that.
Only badly."

[QUOTE=GD Armstrong] GD Armstrong
Yamhill OR
My retirement plan is to be found face down in the sawdust someday.
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George, may I adopt your philosophy? That's funny. But it may well be true of any of us. Yesterday evening about nine pm, I decided it was time to get the bubinga dust off of me since it was beginning to burn in like cocobolo. Just when you think you've found a safe wood, you realize you haven't.

Bruce Dickey
Married to Kay, 34 years, two boys, one married to Lauren, last month, yea!
Guitarmaker and woodseller on the bay.
Retired teacher, electrician, single engine land pilot, homebuilder.
Adopted the day after Christmas by a Rat Terrier named Annie, who blessed me with six grandpuppies two weeks ago, Buck, Pete, Buster, Annie2, Cookie, and Candy.
Seeking the kingdom.
www.dickeyguitars.com

Kirt Myers
Horton, Michigan

Married 27 years.

One daughter who just graduated college and will be teaching high school History in Yuma, Az. This was her first week.

I previosly designed machinery on CAD.
Now I design Industrial hydraulic systems.

Currenty looking for a way to retire early, or at all.

Been wanting to build guitars since 78. Finally started one in 90. Finally finished it last December.   

Working on #2 & #3.

I'd do this full time if I could find a way to pay the bills.

Cheers

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Horton, MI

Darrin Oilar 35 y/o
Redding, CA
Chiropractor
Married, one daughter 6 y/o

Just starting with first acoustic. Built an electric last year. I dont play worth beans so i dont know how i'm going to be able to tell about 'voicing', 'tone', etc.    Actually with my first one, i'm using scraps and really dont care how it sounds. I just want to go through the construction and see how it all comes together.

[QUOTE=Steve Kinnaird] 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.[/QUOTE]

Nak-a-doe-shish I know MichaelP38933.5984490741

John Cavanaugh
St. Paul, MN

54 years old, married, two children (ages 22 & 17)
Professional nerd (networking software engineer)

I built a couple of dulcimers about thirty years ago and am just getting started on my first guitar, an LMI OM kit.

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John Cavanaugh
Saint Paul, MN
"What could possibly go wrong?"

Pete Harrington
Seattle, WA

Married almost 4 yrs to Heidi Jo

Raybender by day (Optical Designer)
Woodbender by night

Trying to finish the first one before starting number two!

My goal is to see REK in Texas!!
Dog's name is Shiner


Pete

Wade Sylvester
By day, a Special Effects designer for the Hayden Planetarium at the Museum of Science, Boston. And builder of Stringed instruments just about the rest of the time.
Happily married 17 years to Jeanie Boyadjian(the best jeweler in Boston) and co-care giver to a bouncing 80something year old Mom-in-law.
Other hobbies are gardening, hiking, traveling and cleaning up my shop..
Looking forward to the day there is time to do everything I’d like.
Meantime, not a bad world we have here.
If I won the lottery, I’d try to make it better. Really.

All the Best!

Wade

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Wade
Nashua, NH
http://www.wadefx.com

[QUOTE=Pete Harrington]
My goal is to see REK in Texas!!
Dog's name is Shiner
Pete[/QUOTE]

I do believe you qualify to be an honorary Texan.

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