Responsive instruments, built deliberately.

Craft, patience, and the quiet details.

Churchill Street Guitars is a small-shop lutherie practice focused on handcrafted acoustic instruments — built slowly, carefully, and with intention.

Every guitar begins with the wood. Each set of tonewoods is selected for its acoustic properties, its visual character, and the voice it might produce. From there, the work is deliberate: hand-shaped bracing, careful voicing, refined joinery, and modern appointments that balance visual presence with structural integrity.

I come to this craft from an unexpected direction — twenty-five years as a Technical Artist in the games industry, solving three-dimensional problems on screen. Lutherie translates that same spatial thinking into the physical world: analyzing stiffness and mass in a soundboard, shaping a neck profile that disappears in the hand, dialing in setup tolerances measured in thousandths of an inch.

The name itself reflects a personal geography. Churchill Street is where I grew up, in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. The mountain in the logo is Rainier, seen from Seattle, where I've lived for the past fifteen years. Two places, two sensibilities — the precision of an engineer, the intuition of a maker.

I'm currently building under the mentorship of Marcus Bailie of Bailie Guitars, a luthier with more than fifteen years of experience. His guidance has been instrumental in developing my understanding of what makes a great acoustic guitar.

My current focus is the small jumbo body, with plans to move into a Grand Auditorium style — my preferred playing platform — and additional body styles beyond that.