I first picked up a guitar in the basement of my Grandfather.  I used to watch him sketch, listen to him sing and play the guitar and harmonica.  He also built furniture, most of which was gifted to family and friends.  He had a Cherry Gibson ES335 that he bought in 1967 that I fell in love with.  He picked up the violin in his sixties, and continued to play with a band around his hometown until he passed at age 80.  My grandpa found a saxaphone at a garage sale that I started playing in grade school, and though formal lessons never really suited me, I continued on my own.  I finally found a guitar of my own when I was 14, a budget friendly Yamaha acoustic that is still owned by a friend of mine.  It wasn't enough and I had to know what an electric guitars was all about, so I purchased a Epiphone and a small Crate amp.  I always had my eye on a custom Gibson like my Grandfather had, but well I just couldn't afford such a beautiful instrument.  As the years ticked by I formed many different bands, traded and purchased many different instruments, I taught myself mostly, and eventually picked up the bass and drums.  It was always a passion playing, singing, writing and performing.  I spent many hours writing poetry, music, and sketching all sorts of things, and spent time with my Father in his garage watching him pursue his passion via my first car a 1968 Mustang Fastback.  I helped him restore that car to an utmost classic beauty.  My Father is the renaissance man, he does it all, and he does it the right way the first time.  He is a avid tool collector, and if a job calls for it he'll have it or buy it, and he knows exactly how to use each and every one with utmost precision.  We spent many hours on so many different projects around his house, that its hard to name them all,  but thats where I inherited the do-it-yourself attitude, and my eye for detail.  So after I left home and started working full-time I kinda had this empty feeling, that I wasn't going anywhere, and I moved home and put myself through college.  I became a Medical Technologist.  I loved the detail-oriented recipes of how each test in the medical laboratory worked, and the fact that I could draw blood from a person and relate to them, then run specific testing in a detail setting, and relate the findings to disease which leads to treatment.  It is this all encompassing aspect that gets me, the bigger picture.  But passions never die, and I always returned to my electric guitar.  Which lead to a sort of awakening for me.  I'd always wanted a Gibson Double Cut Les Paul, something high-end, but yet unique, and well I just didn't see any other way than to create my own guitar.  Of course I enlisted my Father to sort of lay out how it would happen, he had a decent set of tools, that I thought we could make work.   I spent time sketching a full scale design, read countless hours on the subject, really examing the electric guitar, and started working on what would be the start a a life-long passion and endeavor that grasped at the core of my soul.  That first guitar turned out excellent, and I played it with my band Gracious Jones.  Almost as soon as that first guitar was done, I had my design for a second which turned out to be quite exceptional, it is my main guitar to this day, and it turned me on even more to the art of luthiery.  I then built a guitar for my Grandfather as a Christmas present.  He really wanted a new lap steel, did I mention he played that too, so I just had to build him a double neck lap steel, because well what good is just one neck.  It was this lap steel that was the turning point for me.  I named that guitar after my Grandfather's old nickname "Little Wolf."  I found that I could create and design guitars for the individual, give the guitar itself its own attitude, name, birthdate, and create a truly unique instrument that will inspire and give life to another artist.  It was an epiphany.  So from then on I decided to push forward, and spent most of my time and energy into what I call my true artform. 

Hand-made Electric Art.  

Over the years I've built for several musicians, and I continue to push the boundaries of design and function while maintaining that 'classic' look and feel of the electric guitar.

Solid, hand crafted, simply beautiful, custom designed electric art.