Question: What does your company logo represent?
Answer: The logo represents “Freedom Into Music”.  It is an Eagle’s claw piercing a sharp musical note.   It is protected by two angels.  The angels were hand-sketched in charcoal.  The reason I chose two angels was because when I was 11 years old I lost my mother after she battled an illness for 7 years.  The night she died she awoke and called us children to her bedside.  She told us there were two lady angels above her waiting to take her home.

Question:  Why are there clapping hands on the back of your guitars?
Answer: They are not “clapping hands” they are a full-scale representation of the Master Luthier’s hands. The original artwork was produced in charcoal.  I visited Helsinki, Finland a while back and took one of my guitars with me.  When I opened the case and showed them the guitar the first thing they noticed was the hands on the back.  They were very impressed and really loved the opportunity to see the hands that had built the instrument.  I would really love to have the opportunity to see Antonio Stradivari’s hands on the back of his instruments.  Wouldn’t it be nice to see the hands that produced the million-dollar violin?

Question:  Why don’t your guitars have a traditional bridge?
Answer: I threw out tradition completely because I don’t want to sound like any other guitar you can find on the market. The area under the saddle (about 3-1/2”) is glued wood-to-wood.  The ends of the bridge are held in place with special adhesive to allow the soundboard to move freely under humidity or drought.  At the same time it gives the instrument a full, rich sound.

Question:  Why do your fingerboards have extra frets and extend over the sound                      hole?
Answer: I designed the steel string guitars with two full octaves (24 frets) and 22 frets on the classical guitars.  I wanted to give the player more freedom, just as my logo represents, to have extra notes.