An 8-String Lap-Steel Guitar Prototype

Greetings friends and family,

I’m sorry for the long hiatus from this blog. I’ve been assembling a guitar workshop, trying to get it ready for next year when I will be retiring from the “day-gig” and beginning to work full-time at ‘music’. All kinds of musical adventures are anticipated including, building musical instruments, playing more live shows and hiring my bass and other instrument skills out to local bands and studios.

I’ve had to learn some new skills along the way. I’ve always been good with design and tools. When I began buying guitar parts to assemble my own ‘parts guitars’ (it costs a lot less to build it yourself) and found I was pretty good at assembling and customizing a normal guitar into something special, I became confident that I could build a guitar ‘from scratch’. I found some exotic wood suppliers and researched the tools I would need to build a guitar from a slab of wood. I’m now refining my working methods and making the inevitable mistakes while prototyping my own designs. So far, it’s working out. Sometime next year I will be able to hang my shingle out as a luthier who builds custom electric guitars, basses along with doing repairs and customizing services.

Thanks for reading and love to all,

David T

Here’s one of my first designs: