A Renovation for Melissa Etheridge
During the fall of 2020, I was contacted by a guitar collector, Dan Bain, to renovate a small guitar that was to be gifted to Melissa Etheridge. He learned of me from a Melissa Etheridge Cruise we had both been on earlier. Dan hired me to renovate a 1969 Stella by Harmony acoustic guitar that […]
Building Acoustic Guitars: A Woman’s Journey
It all started with a cigar box guitar I made with no intentions of taking the craft any further than just wanting to make something fun to play, but ended up, only a few years later, having Melissa Etheridge’s signature on a unique acoustic guitar I built for myself! This creative drive has been […]
The Origin of the Name “Crazy Cat Luthiers”
Crazy Cat Luthiers-what kind of a name for a custom acoustic guitar building business is that anyway!? Well, let me tell you the story. We have always been cat lovers and our first was named Madeline. She was a quiet cat, never really meowing although she was a pretty typical cat in her mannerism. When […]