Instruments

When I was in high school, in 2003, I started a band. The band, called Colligan, started out as a school band but soon grew to be much more, for us in the band at least. We did a lot of cool things together, such as play at a festival in Tirana, Albania, and perform […]

The second lap steel and case I built. Tulipwood with curly maple top acacia burl bridge and inlayed acacia burl fretboard, both with ebony and maple veneer purfling border. Vintage teisco pickups. Through body strings. Duesenberg z-tuners. Pickguard made out of an old vinyl record. Finish is French polished shellac.

This is the first lap steel guitar I built. It’s made out of red meranti with a curly maple veneer top.  The hardware is mostly stuff I had lying around, like a telecaster bridge and bridge pickup and some old Ibanez humbucker. The fretboard is maple with inlayed strips of stained veneer. I made the […]

This is the first guitar I ever built. It’s a regular old telecaster. It has an alder body and a maple neck with a rosewood fretboard. It has GFS pickups, and I screwed the bridge pickup right into the body for an extra fat tone. Sounds great! The body is finished with hand rubbed shellac, […]