About Me

My name I Jeff. I live in Nebraska, I used to be an auto mechanic but that career was cut short.. I am recovering and guitar has been my rock to stand on to weather the storm. I LOVE Guitars. I am training to be a Luthier even and since Guitars were what saved me I appropriately call my Custom Build and Repair Shop, Salvation Guitars. It is just getting off the ground, there is so much to do website and getting your name and guitars out there, and getting the shop set up, and so on. But it will come in time, I have completed 5 courses in Lutherie so far, Guitar Physics, The Art of Guitar Design, Fretwork Part 1, Jig Making, and most recently Inlay and Engraving. I particularly like to restore instruments, vintage ones sound so good. I am currently working on a 1966 H615 Silvertone Acoustic, a 1948 H605 Silvertone Parlor, and I am building from scratch a custom Tele Style guitar but nothing Fender about this baby. I also love family and have gotten my nephew involved in guitar and playing with me on a Red Mini Strat I bought him, but he did not want to stop their and we are building him a custom 3/4 size SG from spare parts around the shop, Not only that but my niece, his little sister, wanted to learn to play too, so I picked up an old First Act I am going to give her but it needs some modifications first. I have 5 playable guitars at the moment. I love Epiphone, I think you get a lot of bang for your buck and I have an Epiphone Dove Pro Acoustic Electric, An Epiphone Les Paul, A Fender Acoustic from the 80’s that I learned to play on, it’s about to get a pickup in it, a MIM Fender Strat, and a Squier Strat that I been working the bugs out of but I think the last will go to my teenage daughter.