| I've always had an incredible passion for acoustic music, and acoustic guitars specifically. I've appreciated quality instruments since the beginning. Six years ago I decided to take a vacation and go out and build a guitar. It was really an experiential thing at the time. After doing that I came back, and I couldn't get it out of my head. I called Joe and said, "Let's build some guitars."
The passion is the same as I have for music. You realize you can build for your whole life and still have lots to learn.
The thing that probably makes our guitars unique is the variety of woods we use. We have over 70 different exotic woods from all over the world. We focus on coordinating these woods for beauty, color and sound.
I will probably spend the rest of my life playing and building guitars, and I don't think there's anything I can do about that.
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When I was young my dad told me, if you are going to do something, do it right. These words have done me well. The work I have done, the work I am doing and the work I am going to do will always be done to best of my abilities. This goes the same with my partner Larry. Both of us are perfectionists. We don't only push ourselves, we push each other to get to the point of perfection.
When one starts doing something, like building guitars, one's best is not good enough. The first guitar Larry and I tried to build is hanging over the door of the shop. The other ones that were not good enough, and there were a number of them, were tossed in the fire.
Larry and I build guitars to be played. The three main factors in a playing guitar are sound, playability and structural integrity. If any guitar does not have those three factors, no matter how pretty it may be, we will scrap it.
Finally, it's not what we say about our guitars that define them. It's what you say about the Crow River Guitars that define them.
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