Profile photo: 2010 prototype with floating bridge, ebony tailpiece & elevated fingerboard. Love the volume, tone & response.

The goal is to design & create a new and better classical guitar. Why be limited to what Torres developed?

Once you play a quality, custom-made classical guitar, it's hard to settle for anything less.

No US bombing in Syria: Why is it ok to kill rebels with conventional weapons, but not with chemical weapons? Killing is killing.

I have used different guitar finishes but I always come back to French polish. It's more work to apply, but sounds the best.

Visiting my son in Washington, DC. Went to see the Wright brothers' 1903 flyer. Not unlike a fine guitar. Spruce and wire. Both fly.

New cocobolo classical guitar body being French polished.

New tenor ukulele I finished. Ebony fingerboard, mahogany back, sides, neck. Spruce top, floating bridge.