About Me

Hi, My name's bob and I've been playing guitar for 40 years and fixing and building guitars for the past 25 years, I've earned my guitar repair technician certification from the southeast guitar repair academy, and i'm also currently in the middle of working on my Master's Guitar Repair Luthier Certification! 

but let's start at the beginning. 

When I was just a wee lad back in 1984, a young man at the impressionable age of 12, I dreamt of being in Motley Crue, and it was then when I got my first guitar, a Mako Traditional TB-1 and being heavily influenced by Edward Van Halen, I immediately began to take my guitar apart and modify it, I still have that guitar today but only the neck is original, but it's still one of my favorites! So after a failed attempt at becoming a rockstar, I went north and stumbled into my dream job working at Flagstaff Music Center in Flagstaff Arizona! It's there where I got my first taste of becoming a guitar tech, and after a year of working as a tech doing basic setups and learning how to setup violins, cellos etc... I then moved back down to the Phoenix area to get a "real job" but I was bitten by the bug and so sometime in the mid 90's, I taught myself how to build guitars! I checked out "Make Your Own Electric Guitar" by Melvin Hiscock from the local library (you know, the building with books in it!) and I proceeded to build 6 guitars from scratch, managing to sell three of them! Unfortunately the cost of building was just too much as I was starting a family, so it fell by the wayside. I then concentrated on recording and I actually played on several indie records as a somewhat kind of "hired gun" while also recording my own album and somehow along the way, I ended up singing lead vocals on a song that appears in a horribly terrific B horror movie! (Hubcap)

But I digress...

I've now come back around and have made building and repairing my main focus again, I'm looking forward to bringing a much needed service to the Southeast valley