Custom electric
carter | August 19, 2018
Hand carved, curly rock maple top cap; shop made, hand wound P-90 pickups; modified Kay Kraft body shape. This was a fun project.
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Kay Kraft style mandolin in finish
carter | August 1, 2018
Smooth shadows.
carter | March 7, 2017
Custom electric sunburst
carter | February 8, 2017
Mandolin plates
carter | January 24, 2017
Rough carved F-5 top and back. Adirondack red spruce and curly rock maple.
Necks in finishing.
carter | December 6, 2013
Red Beans & Rice’s new cd reviewed!
carter | April 21, 2011
Check out the write-up we got from Will Gottlieb of the Coastal Journal:Â http://www.coastaljournal.com/website/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2472%3Amondays-meat-review&catid=41%3Areviews&Itemid=100060 If you want to follow his advice at the end of the article, here’s how: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/redbeansrice1 Cheers!
Spring come early
carter | March 3, 2011
Here’s a phone photo of the carving on the neck heel of a baritone ukulele I’m making for my wife. It’s a dogwood pattern I developed, and I bleached the petals to show them off a little better. Think she’ll like it? I hope so.
L-27 in Monkeypod sold
carter | February 8, 2011
Recently finished this guitar and delivered it to its new, happy owner. This guitar is patterned after a Gibson L-1 from the late 1920s (like one that Robert Johnson is pictured with), and made with South American monkeypod for the back and sides and Sitka spruce for the top.  This is the guitar that goes […]
Hops and Vines
carter | December 6, 2010
I have just recently finished a bit of heel-carving on a commissioned instrument I’m building. This is my Hop Vine pattern, designed after — you guessed it — my hop garden.
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