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About Meeting Robert
Robert began studying the guitar at the age of nine at the new England School of Music, and by the age of thirteen he was playing in a16 piece dance band, a trio and a quintet. After a stint in the military during the Korean conflict he attended the Rhode Island School of Design under the GI Bill and majored in a two year commercial art coarse which covered everything artistic from painting water and oil colors, designing interiors,fabrics and the study of color chemistry. But it was the study of how a color will enhance a design and the same design degraded by the use of a different color and how certain shapes make you feel either comfort or discomfort. His creative juices began to flow in a bundle of various directions as long as they were creative he began to invent products and ways to make things easier. He came to California with his music and his background in art. His grandfather taught him how to build things out of wood, bricks,blocks and Cement. His Uncles taught him how to make paint and how to use it.
He became an excellent carpenter and cabinet maker, and developed the art of furniture making,veneering and fine custom finishes. He will only make an Item once and never a second one, he excels at restoring crushed guitars. He has a passion for healing what is broken whether it is living or inanimate. When he arrived in California
he worked at numerous creative jobs one being for a large well known Dept. store and
headed the carpentry and painting shop in the engineering division for the display dept.For extra income he began to teach the art of playing the guitar. It lasted 14 years. However he will still take young children to teach, but only if accompanied by a parent and in the home of the parent.
Robert learned the art of the luthier by serving an apprenticeship with a renown
German violin and bass viol maker, who would not let him touch an instrument until he made his own tools, like tiny wood planes of hard maple the size of his finger nails and cutting knives of steel. After having used them to the satisfaction of the teacher he was given a violin to take apart and told not to worry about doing that since it was an old good for nothing violin to practice taking apart and it wouldn't matter if I broke it. But, I had to be careful taking it apart and being careful was the part of learning how to be careful. It turned out later to be a Stradivarius. What wisdom that man had ! !
As a result, Robert has developed the ergonomic guitar neck that takes the strain out of playing, that beginners go through.These replacement necks are for Fender Stratocaster and Telecaster guitars, hopefully to become available soon, Or your original neck can be converted into one. It doesn't have to be a Fender it can be any bolt on neck Keep checking this site. Robert will be making himself available to answer questions about guitar making and repairs that anyone wishes to do themselves. Also Robert is planning to teach basic guitar making step by step on DVD, if time permits in a simple easy to understand common sense way.
