Hello from San Diego
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2012 6:49 pm
I recently joined the forum and would like to introduce myself. I am a 52 years old and a cabinet maker by trade with a lifelong love of music. I play bass in a band with an old friend, his nephew, my son and the drummer from our church praise band (of which I'm a member as well.) I started out making fender style necks for my son's partscasters. This progressed into complete electric guitars and basses. A semi hollow PRS/ES335 build became the stepping stone to side bending and carving an archtop jazzbox. I have since built 2 steel string acoustics. I am completely self taught with, of course, much knowledge obtained from the interweb and forums like this. I particularly like to discover newer, more accurate ways of doing things with a small shop and limited expenditures. My upcoming build is a slightly rounded, modern dreadnaught. I found a beautiful piece of african mahogany with gorgeous beeswing shimmer. I like to use carbon fibre reinforcing in my necks and like to 'push the design envelope' just a little with each new project. I have great respect for tradition, but a little quest for innovation can be satisfying. I will try to post when I have something worthy to add to the forum. Thank you, Glen
