FREE EMAIL COURSE
Beginner’s Boot Camp
Beginner’s Boot Camp
Everything I wish someone had told me before I built my first guitar, delivered to your inbox over eight lessons. This free email course covers the mindset shifts, design principles, tool decisions, and building habits that separate the builders who finish from the ones who stay stuck planning.
Your first lesson arrives right away. New lessons follow every two days. You’ll also receive my free weekly Art of Lutherie newsletter. Unsubscribe anytime.
What You’ll Learn In This Email Course
Lesson highlights:
The mindset that changes everything. Why your first guitar should be a prototype, and why that single shift removes more fear and hesitation than any amount of preparation ever could.
The three mistakes that trip up almost every beginner. I’ve watched thousands of builders make them. Once you see them, you won’t.
The one thing the strongest builders have in common. It’s not talent, money, or time. It’s the subject of the most personal email I’ve ever written.
How to choose your design, tools, and tonewoods with confidence. Not by obsessing over every option, but by understanding the principles that make the decisions simple.
Two daily techniques I still use after 30 years. One I learned from Ernest Hemingway. The other sounds too simple to work, but it changed how I build.
Why the first guitar is the hardest (and how to make it easier). The real obstacles aren’t technical. They’re the invisible rules you don’t know you’re following. This course helps you see them and let them go.
This email course will give you a real foundation. But there are some things email can’t do. It can’t watch you work and tell you what to adjust. It can’t answer your specific question when you’re not sure if you just ruined your top. It can’t walk beside you step by step from an empty bench to a finished guitar.
That’s what the Beginner’s Boot Camp Workshop was built for. It goes far deeper than this email course can, with video instruction, homework, and the personal support that makes the difference between builders who finish and builders who get stuck and give up. Here’s a look at what’s inside:
The Beginner’s Boot Camp Workshop is included with your Luthier’s EDGE membership, along with 18 other courses, monthly live Q&As, and a global community of builders.