Luthier/Musician, Bruce Roper of Sons of the Never Wrong is using reclaimed wood from our old barn doors and cherry wood from trees on the farm to make a guitar. Check out the progress below.
6/2/24 Pulling down the barn door for the guitar top
Spruce and Cherry being loaded up
Paul showing Bruce the old barn
6/4/24 Here is the top pine board for re-gluing
6/4/24 Here is the cherry board cut to make the neck blank…
6/4/24 Here are those cut outs being glued up to make the complete neck blank
6/4/24 I’m re-sawing the pine board
6/4/24 The re-sawn pine
6/4/24 Re-sawing the cherry back board
A look at the cherry back under the form
Bruce Roper Luthier/Musician
My name is Bruce Roper and I have been repairing and building guitars for about 35 years. I owned my own retail guitar store for 10 years, and have for the last 20 years been doing all the string instrument repair for the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, a venerable organization known nationally with over 6000 students a week in all the folk arts.
In my one man shop I average between 400 and 500 repairs a year… add to that, I try to build a few guitars each year. I started teaching guitar building in 2001.
I have also been playing the guitar and singing professionally with a small national touring folk trio called “Sons Of The Never Wrong“. Sons have been together for 21 years and have recorded 9 critically acclaimed CD’s