September 2009

Kjel (a former student) came back for a visit. He and instructor Mike Jarvis visit while he changes the strings on his grandfathers mandolin

Kjel and Joe hamming it up for the camera

Nathan is working in the repair department as part of the three month program

Joel (England) is starting the one year master program


Dylan (Nova Scotia) doing set ups , he has started the one year master program

Cody (Saskatewan) has started in the repair department as part of the six month program

Lewis (Texas) is drawing up plans for a solid body guitar as part of the four month program

Wyatt (Washington) making jigs for his solid body guitar

Brad (Ohio) starting his bass as part of the one year master program

Patrick (Manitoba) is working on his Acoustic guitar as part of his One year master program

Josh (California) is contouring his bass neck

Pat (Ontario) routing the neck pocket on his solid body guitar

Joe is working on his Macafarian Acoustic

HS (South Korea)

Warren (New York) is putting on the hardware on his solid body guitar

Ian (British Columbia) carving the dovetail joint on his Archtop

Willy (British Columbia) working on his guitar neck

August 2009

Ian (British Columbia) is bending the sides for his Acoustic




Warren (New York) is routing out the channel for his truss rod

Pat (Ontario) is finishing up with Repairs and will move on to building an electric guitar as part of his Eight Week Program

Pat (Manitoba) is working on the sides for his Acoustic

Darryl ( Ontario) is finishing up his Archtop and The One Year Master Program here at Summit .

Paul (British Columbia) is making jigs for his Acoustic.

Josh (California) has just started the One Year Master Program

HS ( South Korea) is checking out the bracing on his Acoustic

Joe (Ontario) is working on the binding of his Acoustic Guitar

Willy ( British Columbia) has his guitar sides clamped into the jig he built

Michael Trelenburgh who was a student here at Summit three years ago drops in to say hello. He has been working for the last two years in Kamloops, both Building and Repairing guitars.

July 2009

Niall (British Columbia) has just completed his Mandolin and the Four Month Course here at Summit

Sigmund Johannessen (Instructor at Summit) is showing Doug (Alberta) how to do the recurve on his Archtop.

Tom (Regina, Sask) is a Music Teacher who spent part of his summer holidays learning guitar repairs from instructor Mike Jarvis

Eric (Memphis) is on his way home once this month is up, he has been here for the One Year Master Program and has completed the Buzz Feiton Program.

Jordan ( British Columbia) is doing Buzz Feiton and Repairs.

He is here for four weeks

HS (South Korea) seems happy to be moving on to his Acoustic

HS (South Korea) is working on his solid body guitar as part of the One Year Program

Warren (New York) is doing nut work and a fret dress as part of the Repair Course

June 2009

Willy (British Columbia) gluing the back on his Mandolin

Patrick is checking out the piece of wood he foraged from the woods here on the island

Nick is finishing his Archtop and the 10 month course here at Summit

This is Nicks design for his headstock

Joe (Ontario) has done Four Months of Repair

Eric (Memphis) working on his Archtop. He is in the 11th Month of the One Year Master Program.

Darryl is carving the back of his Archtop, He is in the 10th month of the One Year Master Program

H.S. (South Korea) is starting the one year master program

Doug (Alberta) is in his last month and is finishing up his Archtop

May 2009

Nick (California) is wet sanding his Acoustic. He is finishing up the One Year Master Program here at Summit. He will do his final month in Japan, at Atsushi' shop.

On a personal note** Thank you for rescuing those wonderful kittens, we have two of them and they are great. You are very kind Nick.

Side view

Back view

Front view

Jeff (Ontario) is just about finished his Acoustic. Jeff will be finished the Five Month Guitar Building and Repair Course at the end of this month.

Nick has been busy carving his Archtop

Kjel has finished the program and returned to Alberta, but I liked this picture of him fitting the dovetail

Eric (Memphis) doing some finishing work on his electric guitar

Stephen also finished up the program last month, but I thought this was a good picture of him shaping the body of his neck through Bass

This Acoustic Guitar in process belongs to Doug
(Alberta)

Arlen (Instructor at Summit) hand built this solid body electric:
It has a Spalted Maple drop top, Alder body,
Maple neck, Rosewood fingerboard, Hand wound bridge pickup and a TV Jones Filtron neck pickup

another pic of Arlens Electric Guitar