The Beginner’s Boot Camp Workshop
A workshop to help you get unstuck and finally begin building your first guitar.
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*The next cohort begins on April 13th. Join before then to get started.
The Beginner’s Boot Camp Workshop
A workshop to help you get unstuck and finally begin building your first guitar.
Watch The Trailer
*The next cohort begins on April 13th. Join before then to get started.
33 Video Lessons
Self-Paced Access
Community Group
Printable Certificate
What You’ll Learn
For years, I’ve watched talented, motivated people get stuck before they ever build their first guitar — not because they lacked ability, but because the fear, the overwhelm, and the indecision felt impossible to get past.
The Beginner’s Boot Camp Workshop was built from four live interactive sessions where we worked through those real obstacles together.
Understand why most beginners get stuck — and how to move past it
Adopt the Prototype Mindset that removes the pressure of perfection
Find your direction — what guitar to build, what tonewoods, what blueprint
Learn to start with what you have instead of waiting for ideal conditions
Build real momentum that fits your actual life and schedule
Join a community of builders going through it alongside you
Course Trailer
Course Outline
Permission, Mindset & How to Begin
Your first guitar doesn’t have to be perfect to be valuable. In this session, we work through the Prototype Mindset — learning to treat your first build as a teacher rather than a test. We talk about the difference between reversible and irreversible decisions, how to lower the pressure, and how to replace fear with curiosity. This is where most people feel the weight start to lift.
Design, Blueprints & Tonewoods
One of the biggest reasons people get stuck is not knowing what to build, what path to choose, or how to trust their own instincts. In this session, I help you think more clearly about direction — how to gather inspiration, think about guitar design and blueprints, choose your tonewoods, and begin shaping a path that feels meaningful and personal to you.
Tools, Workspace & Order of Operations
You don’t need the perfect shop, the perfect budget, or the perfect collection of tools to begin. This session helps break that belief. We talk about resourcefulness, phased tool buying, and flexible workspace thinking — and how to start where you are instead of waiting until everything is ideal. It’s one of the most liberating shifts a beginner can make.
Building Rhythm & Momentum
Starting matters. But continuing matters just as much. In this final session, we focus on rhythm, consistency, and protected time — practical ways to build momentum, protect your energy, and keep moving even when life is busy. Small, steady steps carry you much farther than most people realize.
In January 2026, I gathered a group of Luthier’s EDGE members who were all stuck at the same place. People who had wanted to build a guitar for years but couldn’t seem to get started. Over four sessions, we worked through the real reasons people get stuck. Not the technical stuff, but the fear, the overwhelm, the indecision, the feeling of not being ready.
What happened was something amazing…
People got unstuck and started moving forward.
Not because I gave them a checklist, but because they finally understood what was actually holding them back, and they didn’t feel alone in it.
A course teaches you how to do something.
This workshop helps you become someone who does it.
That distinction is at the heart of everything you’ll find inside. The sessions are self-paced, so you move through them on your own schedule, but you won’t be doing it alone. You’ll have access to a dedicated community group where students share homework, ask questions, and build momentum together. And as you complete each session, you’ll receive a personal follow-up from me with key takeaways and encouragement to keep going.
The Beginner’s Boot Camp Workshop
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The sense of relief it gave me about starting my first build. I learned to take my time, plan, enjoy the creative process and the challenges it presents. I’m not just building an inanimate object, but an instrument that will become a living thing in someone’s hands.
For me the Boot Camp was empowering and a driving force to continue with the guitar I’m making. I love the 10-minute trick. It helps me to start making something, even if it’s a small thing.
What I loved about the Boot Camp was the emphasis on developing the right, open-minded, realistic, resourceful, prepared-to-troubleshoot-and-learn, in-for-the-long-haul approach to diving into and settling into the craft.
I was really enlightened by your artistic approach to guitar building. I’ve been more of a paint-by-numbers guy, actually afraid of changing anything on a guitar. Your approach has opened up my thinking.
You Won’t Be Doing This Alone
One of the most powerful parts of the original live workshop was the feeling of not being alone. That feeling is built into everything here.
The workshop is directly connected to a dedicated community group inside Luthier’s EDGE where students share homework, post progress photos, ask questions, and support each other through the journey.
It’s a safe, beginner-friendly space, a place to work through the process together,
not show off finished guitars.
This means the workshop is not just something you watch. It’s something you participate in.
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