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Top portion of the body, showing the "R" and "N" cutouts.
Close up of the tailpiece that I designed for this machine. It is made from
solid Ebony. If you look closely you can see the spun aluminum cone beneath the
black cover plate.
Back of the headstock showing the figure in the wood and the sweet Grover
rotomatic tuning
machines.
When I took up playing the "Dobro" (resonator guitar) I could not find one, or
modify the ones I owned, to make them sound like what I heard in my head. So I
re-designed the instrument significantly. This guitar is made so that the body
compliments the shape of the spun aluminum cone which makes the sound in this
instrument.
Closer view of Rachael's harp showing tuning machines and sharping levers.
This is a harp I made for my oldest daughter Rachael when she was six or seven.
She is now seventeen. Rachael became quite good on the harp and played a lot of
beautiful music but has grown weary of it now and seldom plays. Much to my
dismay.
This is a close up of the leaf table top.
This is a table I made for a friend of mine, Dan Finnegan, to sit next to his
rocking chair, giving him a place to sit his tea cup.
A 22 string harp I made for my daughter Rose who never really took to it. The
English walnut in this harp is very beautiful.
In this photo you can see the three piece neck, rosewood, ebony, rosewood. The
5/16 thick ebony strip runs through the entire length of the neck. With the
rosewood/ebony neck this is a fairly heavy guitar but the sound is quite crisp
and the sustain exquisite.
Headstock of classical guitars showing nice gold plated Schaller machines and
some very old strings!
This is the third classical guitar I made. It is Indian rosewood with sitka spruce
top, ebony fingerboard, ebony and rosewood neck, Brazilian rosewood
headstock and finally, an ebony bridge. The rosette was by some famous guy I
have long forgotten. It sounds and plays beautifully and now belongs to my
son Aaron.
Bottom of the classical guitar showing ebony inlay.
