Hi,

My name is Mike. I'm an acoustic and electric guitar and bass builder based in Northern Virginia. My focus is mostly hand tool work, although I do use those newfangled tools in the electric guitar builds.

I also am prone to actually build just about anything else that comes into my head. I look forward to participating here.

Here are some of my recent projects.

And an in progress build.

Beautiful work, Mike! Way above my skill level. Welcome to the site; great bunch of guys here. Just ignore any requests for donuts!

Hi and Welcome! That is some awesome work! Thanks for posting it I' looking forward to seeing more.

I hope @difalkner stops by to see your work!

Thank you, gentlemen. Much appreciated.

Looks like good builds, Mike.  How many have you built and do you have a website?

Welcome.  Those are some nice looking guitars.

Thank you gentlemen. I have built around 10 or 12 electric guitars. I have been building for 12 years or so. This is the one that you see on my bench is only my second acoustic guitar. I do have a background in repair as well that I've been doing for 14 or 15 years.

You luthiers amaze me. Those builds are awesome, Mike. 

Hey Mike, welcome again. Great to have you here and to have another luthier on-board. I envy your talent and gift. Awesome work. We do love pictures here. Looking forward to your ongoing participation with us. I'm sure you'll agree, best woodworking site on the internet. BTW, you get bonus points for already knowing @steven newman. 

 

I think someone has already mentioned donuts? So, speaking of donuts on behalf of the team, new guy provides donuts for the group. Already have tomorrow covered by @Gordon so your day is Thursday. Just leave them in the breakroom. I'll announce their arrival.

Way above my skills Mike. Hope you stick around. A great group of guys here.

Edited August 20, 20241 yr by Al B

To answer another question I forgot to answer, I do have a YouTube channel, but if I read the rules correctly posting links to that would be self-promotion and breaking the rules of the forum. I am way more interested in being a part of this community than having anybody come look at my YouTube channel from this site

1 hour ago, Handfoolery said:

This is the one that you see on my bench is only my second acoustic guitar.

I'm also on my second acoustic build.   Here's my first and the thread on #2  

 

I asked about the YouTube channel so we can hear these you've built.

Edited August 20, 20241 yr by difalkner

Welcome to the forum. That is some very nice work

57 minutes ago, Handfoolery said:

To answer another question I forgot to answer, I do have a YouTube channel, but if I read the rules correctly posting links to that would be self-promotion and breaking the rules of the forum. I am way more interested in being a part of this community than having anybody come look at my YouTube channel from this site

@John Morris

1 hour ago, difalkner said:

I'm also on my second acoustic build.   Here's my first and the thread on #2  

 

I asked about the YouTube channel so we can hear these you've built.

If I can link a link to the videos where I demonstrate the instrument the finished instruments then I will. I think in the rules they allow you to post links if someone is directly asking for information, as long as it is directly relative to the question. So when I get to the house I will post those. Worse comes to worst they'll take it down and tell me not to do that again hopefully. And I will definitely check out those build threads

Edited August 20, 20241 yr by Handfoolery

1 hour ago, Handfoolery said:

To answer another question I forgot to answer, I do have a YouTube channel, but if I read the rules correctly posting links to that would be self-promotion and breaking the rules of the forum. I am way more interested in being a part of this community than having anybody come look at my YouTube channel from this site

Welcome Mike, I should review our rules and see what that actually means, post away your links to your channel, we'd love to see what you do, others here have channels too and we love seeing them.

I think what we do like to stay away from is promoting any services and links to websites for services. It don't appear you are doing that, post away Mike!

And thanks for joining us sir!

@Handfoolery, you can also share individual videos here as well, just copy paste your "share" link into the post and it'll auto populate the video.

John, thank you very much. I will. I'm building right now so as soon as I get a break from that I will post away!

48 minutes ago, Handfoolery said:

I will post away!

Widescreen video preferred, btw, like our monitors.