Thursday, April 19, 2012

And the award goes to....

A few months ago I was asked to design and build a trophy for the Montreal Guitar Show Tribute Award.  Here's what I came up with....


And here's what I built....


And here's the album I listened to while finishing it...


(it's Led Zeppelin's "Presence")


So who does the award go to?  I have no idea, but the past winners have been George Benson, Paco de Lucia, and Jeff Beck!  

Monday, April 9, 2012

It's April?!

Apparently, it's April.  I'm at a bit of a loss as to how this happened, but it appears that the inexorable march of time is, well, inexorable.  (Don't worry I just looked up inexorable too)  As per usual, shop life has been humming along quite nicely with all sorts of activity.  The guitars shown in the previous post are much closer to being fully finished and strung up.  As proof, here are a few shots of the wee tenor taken at some unknown point in March (though now it's a whole lot shinier and has neat little elevated neck eagerly waiting to be attached) ...





Do these pictures look familiar?  If so, congrats!  You are well on your way to receiving the full internet assault of the Indian Hill Guitar Company!  These pictures were previously posted on my facebook page which can be found..... here.  But wait!  There is also the little know Indian Hill Guitar Company youtube page (here) where you can see videos of my guitars in action as well as lots of videos from our in-shop concerts.  Let the internet domination begin!