Official Luthiers Forum!

[QUOTE=stan thomison]
Apprentice Bill Moll Moll Custom Insturments[/QUOTE]

Congratulations Stan. I was wondering what you've been up to.

Roy Ott
Kona, Hawaii
Swiss decent
Married for (almost) 15 years to only woman who ever understood my sense of humor
player of ukes and occasionally a guitar
currently working on uke #3,4 and 5

Steve Hamlin, Warwickshire, UK

Oracle Developer by day.

Building mandolin family instruments to my own Vega and LH inspired 'Ridgeback' design (from piccolo to bass) and (soon) Vega cylinderback repros.

Enjoy using tools without plugs where it doesn't negatively impact the result.

Always learning new stuff, which is as it should be.

Hi Steve, welcome to the OLF!

I'll be building 2 F5 soon and i'm very interested in seeing your work so i'll check your website attentively!

Good to have you here!

Serge

    I'm glad to be a part of this great community. It is THE guitar discussion stop on the internet....and it doesn't hurt that it's made up of the finest folks around either.

Thanks for letting me in,
Kevin Gallagher/Omega Guitars

John Sydenstricker
Oscoda, MI
Aircraft Maint. Inspector
Married.Father of two beautiful children.

Still working on getting my shop set up. I've been reading a few guitar making books and lurking here to prepare for my first build.I'm hopeing to start before the end of the summer. I'm glad this forum is around to help us newbys.

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John S.

Like John, I'm STILL trying to get set up to build!
Anyway, 36, lifelong (all but first 9 mo.) resident of MI, two yrs. @ Ferris State (A.A.S.,Machine Tool Tech.), 4 yrs. in die shop, 4yrs. in sheet metal, last 8yrs. in......now brace yourselves.....wood chipper/recycler industry (currently as a welder). I hate to think how many potential instruments I may have prevented from singing! But kids got to eat! Speaking of kids, I'm proud of my two boys, 12 and 10 (11 in a few weeks, and a teenager come Nov., YIKES!) Proud to be the son of Alice and the late Edward Spayd (10/46 - 5/04)............and Shell, my partner, spouse, inspiration, tolerater of 15 years (H.S. sweethearts in '86, so longer really), the best Mom to our boys, great teacher looking for a classroom, and my better half!!!!!!!!

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DES - Shepherd, MI

[QUOTE=hogan] Jeff Hogan...
Mechanical draftsperson, cnc programmer, wood worker.
I play guitar, piano (beginner) and squareneck slide guitar (dobro).
I have built one dobro from mahogany and am nearly finished with my second dobro. It is cherry. The mahogany sounds great, but the cherry is beautiful.
I am beginning a walnut guitar, my first attempt at a real guitar. [/QUOTE]

Hey Jeff, we have a lot in common! Except I've been trying to learn to play the squareneck I built, but dang it's harder than it looks.

Don Williams
Pawtucket, RI
Married 22 years, no kids, 4 Scottish Fold cats.
Into building guitars, and enabling other people's Wood Acquisition Syndrome.

[QUOTE=Don Atwood]Occasional dart throwing beer drinker (sounds dangerous, eh!) and addict to Sci-Fi friday night. [/QUOTE]

While I don't drink beer, I do have a really nice dartboard in my family room. When I throw the darts, my cat DK will watch them and chatter like a machine gun. It's totally hysterical.

Friday night SciFi....I'm totally addicted to Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis....

A good Friday night is throwing darts, watching my cat chatter, and watching the Stargate shows...

I'm also getting into that show "Surface". Cool stuff.
Don Williams38936.5834259259

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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."

John Elshaw
3 GREAT kids, and 1 awesome wife!
active duty Air Force officer...
current assignment as Ph.D. student, Purdue University
other assignments: nuclear missiles, space satellites, special ops, psycho ops
been playing since I was 8, building since 33 (now I'm 36)
My obsessions: guitars, boating, golf

Charlie Ward
Sooke British Columbia Canada
Happily not married to the same woman for 13 years,
perpetual shopbuilder, tool, and jig maker = aspiring luthier
confined to chair for now = also perpetually broke
AWOL OLF member recently = sum sum summertiiiiiime!
Cactus enthusiast + guitar player = sore fingers.
Love you all + see you soon = I promise
Cheers
Charlie
PS Hi to all the new members I see popping out of the - eh hem", woodwork.
                  

[QUOTE=John Elshaw]...active duty Air Force officer...
other assignments: psycho ops [/QUOTE]
So, joining the OLF was part of your day job, huh?

Retired Air Force Officer--21 years
Currently teaching AFJROTC at local High School
Plum, PA (near Pittsburgh)
Owner of SKCUSTOMGRIPS.COM, custom grips for discriminating shooters, Giraffe bone, Ivory and presentation grade domestic and exotic woods.
Aspiring acoustic guitar builder thanks to this site!

Bob Kursar
Charlotte, NC
Full time cog in the wheel at a major bank.
Husband to a wonderful wife, Sheryl, for 13 years.
No kids, but "father" to my wife's 3 cats and 1 horse.
For those that may not know:

(TAS + WAS + GAS)*100 < HAS

The good news is that I have carte blanche in my hobbies, the bad news is that my wife has a horse.

[QUOTE=MichaelP]

Nack-a-tish... I lived there for 6 years
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Oh, that's right! I remember that, now.
Ok, so you're already the most popular guy at parties, aren't you?   

Steve

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From Nacogdoches...the oldest town in Texas.

http://www.stephenkinnaird.com

[QUOTE=MSpencer] Steve,

Nack-a-tish

Do I win the Ambrosia Maple Guitar?????

Mike
White Oak, Texas[/QUOTE]

Sorry, Mike. It's gone.
Soon to be residing in its new home in Malaysia!
Can you believe that?

Steve

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From Nacogdoches...the oldest town in Texas.

http://www.stephenkinnaird.com

O heck, guess I'd better brush off my html then

Thank you for the welcome. I've mostly just lurked here, but have been most appreciative of time and effort taken by all maintaining fora such as this and by those willing to take the time to help, no matter how elementary or obscure the question from an ab initio.

18 months ago I could barely sharpen a chisel, let alone use a plane. Now, thanks largely to the online lutherie community I'm obsessive about woods, sharp shiny things and perpetual improvement - hmmm, may be a good thing I'm single

It's interesting to gain a little more insight into one and all.

Artist/illustrator/production supervisor by day at an advertising agency.
Default IT person because I've been here so long (started with 1 computer
and had to figure out how to make the first one talk with the 2nd).

Husband to Jeri for 38 years. She may not be perfect, but she's as close as
humanly possible.

3 grown children:
Daughter Jennifer, married, 1 beautiful grandson, Jack

Twin sons Christopher and Geoffrey -- Chris is married, another beautiful
grandson, Riley.

Like many of you, luthier at any other moment I can find, starting 35
years ago.

Living in Norwood, MA, 10 miles outside of Boston.
Craig Sullivan

[QUOTE=Serge Poirier]
And i thought i had seen it all by moving 50 times by the age of 35!
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Serge, I didn't see as much as you! 50 times by 35, where did you live, on a boat?

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now known around here as Pat Foster
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http://www.patfosterguitars.com

Mike Mahar
52 years old
Software engineer since 1977. I still like it.
Wife- Clo (19 years)
Son- Steven (15 years)

I dabble in many things. Woodworking, Songwriting, Contra Dancing, Drawing, Golf, Fencing, Science geek, and trying to learn everything before I die.

I play guitar, banjo, mandolin, and lately fiddle. Don's right. The Dobro is hard to make sound good. My few attempts have been a disaster.

I've made 3 guitars, two mandolins, and a bass kalimba. I've helped some others get started building. If I were a bit better at it myself, I'd like to teach.

Brian Hawkins
44
4 kids
Virginia Beach, Va

Married 3 women with the same first name.....it took that many times to get the right one to go with the name---we have been together 12 good years and counting....I hope she doesn't see this!


profession: Sales and wood-o-holic

No Pat, on a snowmobile!

Chris Koos
Normal, IL

Bike Shop Owner
Running Store Owner
Mayor

Wondering why I don't have more time to build.

Total Tyro To Try Tap Tuning

(just registered this morning)

David Barnett
SW Florida

Goldsmith
Jewelry artist-designer
Gem faceter-setter
Sculptor
Furniture maker
Glass caster (pate de verre)
Pianist
Ocassional classical guitarist
Blah blah blah

Charles Freeborn
Recently re-located from the SF bay area and now living debt free in the
Mecca of Acoustic guitar building (Portland, OR).
Recently re-married (no longer a widower).
Full time furniture maker for the last 25 plus years, part time guitarmaker
for all of them.
Agnostic, Liberal, Taurus, Dvorak keyboard user, & all round nice guy.
-C

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