April 2010

Dylan (Nova Scotia) Routing for pickup placement

This is Dylans Ukelele in progress

Jeff (Minnesota) working on his 5th practice neck

Tyler (Alberta) is working on the inlay on his fretboard

This is the headstock for Tylers guitar, he has just finished the inlay

Warren (New York) has figured out a way to use the extra wood by making
gifts for friends and family

Devon (Alberta) is on his 5th practice neck

Brian (Pennsylvania) is putting on the backstrip of his Acoustic

Justin (British Columbia) is working on his second electric guitar

Sigmund (Instructor at Summit School) working on an Archtop

Matt (Ontario) is starting his first practice neck

Christopher (Alberta) is making a neck template for the electric guitar
he is building as part of the One Year Master Program

Dwayne (Manitoba) making a bridge for his Acoustic

Charley (British Columbia) making a saddle for an Acoustic as part of the Repair portion of his course

Jimmy (Ontario) is starting in the repair department as part of his Six month program at Summit

End of March 2010

Matt ( Ontario) is drafting his electric guitar neck

Christopher (Alberta) is jigging up for building

Jeff (Minnesota) routing out a jig for the control plate

Paul (Ontario) is working on a practice neck for his electric

Dwayne (Manitoba) has his Acoustic guitar ready for spraying and has started his batman electric

Justin (British Columbia) is shaping his pick guard for his electric

Joshua (California) is working on Bass #3

Joshua is getting some instruction from Arlen

Joel (England) is going to use water base stain on his guitar and then finish with a nitro spray

Warren (New York) has just finished spraying his guitar

This is Warrens new project an electric violin

Devon (Alberta) is making jigs for his next project, an electric guitar

Tyler (Alberta) is putting on the center line for dovetail placement on his Acoustic

Brian (Pennsylvania) is seeing how his pickguard will look.

He has just finished spraying his guitar a couple of days ago

Dylan (Nova Scotia) is routing the rosette for his new project, an Acoustic guitar

Paul (British Columbia) is carving his Bass

"The Rock School" from Nanaimo visits our school

Thank you Todd and Manda for coming out with your Rock School Students (Headliners School of Performing Arts)to tour our Guitar Building and Repair School/ Recording and Live Sound Studio.

To contact the rock school go to:

165 Fraser St, Nanaimo, BC (beside Mrs. Riches) V9R 5C1
For more information about our programming, events, classes & room bookings please contact them at
Phone: 250-753-2323
E: skyhighproductions@live.ca
E: Headliners@live.ca

March 2010 - Week Two

Earl (British Columbia) with the Acoustic he is building

Joshua (California) getting ready to spray his Acoustic

Paul (British Columbia) has almost finished his Psychodelic guitar

Matt (Ontario) entertaining his fellow students

Jeff (Minnesota) working on a fret dress

Paul (Ontario) working in the repair department

Devon (Alberta) continuing in the repair department

Christopher (Alberta) also continuing in the repair department

Dwayne (Manitoba) routing out the dovetail for his Acoustic

Christopher (British Columbia) dressing the frets

Tyler (Alberta) clamping the back to the sides, so he can notch out the bracing before gluing it up

Justin (British Columbia) is jigging up for his next project, an electric guitar

His solid body electric guitar below is ready to spray

Joel (England) is working on his drop top - bolt on neck electric

Check out the quilted maple he has used......

Dylan (Nova Scotia) is working on the top for his Ukelele