A good friend handed me a banjo a few years ago and I loved it. I’ve had some experience playing in open G tuning on a guitar, so that was a plus not having to learn a new tuning, and there were only four strings! (It was a tenor banjo). The same friend later loanedContinue reading “Adventures in Banjo Making – 01”
Author Archives: Michael Hampel
New Guitars – March 2023
It’s been a while since I’ve been here. I will try to do better.. I’ve recently finished three Koa Weissenborn type guitars. Two are all Koa, the top, back and sides, the third has Koa back and sides with a Red Cedar top. Almost all my work is with local/domestic woods, but I went exoticContinue reading “New Guitars – March 2023”
New Album by Al Pettaway
http://www.instagram.com/p/CCUJllsn7sI/ Al is a great musician, check him out at: https://www.alandamy.com/al.html
# 11
When I make guitars, I usually make at least two at a time. It doesn’t take twice as long, maybe half as long again as making two separately. I don’t have any inclinations to become a factory, but more then one at a time seems to work well for me. In 2018 I made four,Continue reading “# 11”
New guitars
Just finished two guitars which I’m pretty happy with. With the time I have to make guitars I can usually make two a year, sometimes I start and work on more then that, but realistically only two get done a season. These two are a couple I started last Winter, numbers 10 & 11. MyContinue reading “New guitars”
Michael Hampel Guitars
I make my guitars in my shop located in the Eastern Foothills of the North Cascades of Washington state. The wood I use is local or regionally harvested. My goal is to make a great playing and sounding guitars using wood from trees grown in the Pacific Northwest.
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