My instruments feature graceful, elegant, mathematically pure lines with a unified design sensibility exhibited throughout. My work is featured in Custom Guitars: A Complete Guide to Contemporary Handcrafted Guitars, published in the fall of 2000 by the String Letter Press.
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I introduced my True North Guitars at the 1999 Healdsburg Guitar Festival and displayed at the 2003 Healdsburg Festival as well as the 20 ASIA Symposia in Nashville. In addition to my woodworking experience, I also have over fifteen years of experience as a product engineer and product manager for a semiconductor equipment company (where my products DID actually operate with submicron precision) and in both product management and program management for a renewable energy company. In addition to my custom cabinetry and design work, for several years I ran a crew of talented finish carpenters for a custom design/build company specializing in unique high end passive solar homes with unusually complex details. During my woodworking career I created many happy customers and developed a reputation among other woodworkers as "the man with the Angstrom-unit tape measure". At the same time I started a career in high end woodworking, which included sophisticated custom cabinetry which flowed around walls, freestanding spiral staircases, artist studios, creative store spaces, etc. My journey into guitar making began when I bought my first book on the subject back in 1971. I love what I do, and I would be honored to work closely with you to design and build your dream instrument. I am totally committed to building the most advanced instrument possible.
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Since then I attended numerous ASIA Symposia and GAL Conventions, refined my technique through master classes and further study of individual aspects of guitar making, developed my inventory of master quality tonewoods and materials, completed my guitar studio in northern Vermont, and made guitar making my full time profession. I have been a member of the Association of String Instrument Artisans (ASIA) since 1994 and the Guild of American Luthiers (GAL) since 1995, the same year I studied under Charles Fox at the American School of Lutherie. My work has now evolved to encompass all styles of playing, both flatpick and fingerstyle, in standard and open tunings. In 1994 I established my lutherie business, focusing on high quality steel-string guitars for fingerstyle players favoring altered tunings.
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I am an MIT graduate and master woodworker who has played and worked on guitars since the early 1970s. You can reach me by email at or by phone at 80.
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Please feel free to contact me should you have any questions or if you would like to discuss a possible instrument.
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Greetings! And welcome to the True North Guitars website - I invite you to spend some time here to get to know my work better.