CONFESSIONS OF A LUTHIER...
Let’s make this clear from the outset: I am a wood addict, a self-confessed ‘dendrophile’. 13 years of guitar making has made me this way compounded by an already unhealthy addiction to playing and collecting guitars, so maybe you’ll be able to relate to my obsession with hoarding timber, too.
As someone who runs two businesses, both making guitars and teaching lutherie, keeping a healthy stock of materials is essential. times this month, one of which happened when I was contacted out of the blue by my old design and technology teacher from secondary school, offering some slabs of maple for a price that we both knew I wasn’t going to resist.
