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Good morning coffee buddy. #gibson #flatwound #jazzguitar #butterncream #es125 #

Wow. A magical morning filming with the center of our 6 string galaxy, his excellency, Ledward Kaapana. I’ve been working on Led’s guitars for about 20 years going back to my days at the Santa Cruz guitar company when he would stop throug

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This is the Holy Grail when it comes to guitars made by the C.F. Martin Guitar Company, a 1941 D-45 Dreadnought. Hands down the most powerful, refined, and dangerous guitar I have ever had the pleasure to play and hear. The underlying architecture o

Matched pair Mandolin & Mandola made by Lawrence Smart. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the connection between the timbers we use to build our instruments and the character of the place from which they first come into being. The Koa i

#hawaiiantime #kamehamehaday

Restorations in the works! Big thanks to @yamviolins for all the help in the shop, it is needed! #luthier #vintagerestoration #fretboardjournal #mandolincafe #archtop @plecostomusporridge #gibsonguitar #kalamazoo #archtop #tonebars #workshop #repairb

How quickly could ‘ōlelo and Portuguese be learned if businesses started doing this? #graffititextbook #trilingual #’ōlelo #hawaiianlanguage #haumana #kekoliilii

Wow. Its not every day a new friend moves in to the neighborhood who remembers growing up in Kaka’ako with Gabby Pahinui and Eddie Kamae. Mahalo nui Richard a mean lean 85 years old!!

Queen Street looking mauka up Nu’uanu or “Fid” Street, 1890s and today. This street is where the first ‘ukulele and guitar luthiers set up their work shops, and where the early Hawaiian string ensemble styles took shape. #kaul

A quintet of Martins in on consignment!! Some serious played in tone here!! Its rare to see a 3/4 size Dreadnought, and even rarer to see one out of premium curly Koa!! #cfmartinguitar #martinguitar #adirondackspruce #slackkey #000-18 #00-18 #0-17 #

Happy to have my workshop at home, and extra happy to have a few closets full of restoration projects to be making my way through! 1950s Gibson Southern Jumbo, what a sound! Needs some tlc and some attention but its always amazing how ready these ol

Quarantine project #238 restore this C.F. Martin & Co. 000-18 made in 1928. #martinguitar #cfmartinguitar #luthier #adirondackspruce #oldisnew #6strings #flattop #ooo-18

Mahalo nui loa @kamuela_music me na haumana o Windward Community College i ka wala’au! #kcpstrings #martinguitar #dreadnought #mekiasmartin #royalhawaiiantroubadours #hawaiianmusic

This guitar has taken me to meet some fantastic new friends and some long running heroes on this trip. NYC Jazz guitarist Gabe Schnider and NPR producer Alex Ariff yesterday, and the incredible Mark and Maggie O’Connor, all of whom will be (fi

Mahalo @duanepictures for making this incredible adventure possible! It’s a long ways to come from Hawai’i, but this gang of musicians made it to the American String Teachers Association conference in Orlando Florida to share the work we&

Ua ho’oheno au i ka wala’au me kēia kūmu o na kaula, Chris Martin IV a me i ka kīkā o Mekia Kealakai! #kaulapiko #martinguitar #royalhawaiiantroubadours #nightofsovereignstrings #stringstories #magicbox #timetraveler @krstrings #kcpstring

Congrats luthier extraordinaire Steve Grimes - 1000 instruments! One heck of a GRAND party at Maui’s King Kamehameha Golf Club. #hawaiiluthiery #guitarmaker #archtop #fretboardjournal @grimesguitars @wild_cait @lorenkii

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