STGuitarworks

i am a guitar builder, a player since '94, and former fulltime repairer (2007 to 2018); STGuitarworks. Ï will Predicate Particular Sole Proprietorship.

I worked at the repair department for the Godin Guitar Company from 2004 to 2006.

In 2003 I attended the Summit School of Guitar Building and Repair's Masters Course on Vancouver Isl., BC, with one month at Sweden Guitarworks in Umeå, Sweden.

In 2004, 2006, 2008, and 2011 I attended the Guild of American Luthiers conventions held in Tacoma, WA.

Lee Valley / Veritas Tools / Leigh Tools

I was employed at the Lee Valley / Veritas Tools Woodshop as a CNC Operator ll starting January 2018, and Team Lead starting August 2021.

I set-up, operated, and maintained CNC machines including turning centers, horizontal mills, a vertical mill, and a robot arm. I operated CNC machines to produce precision parts according to engineered drawings and specs. I read and interpreted CNC programs, and technical drawings, worked closely with quality control personnel, with CNC programmers, and participated in continuous improvement projects. I maintained accurate records of machine settings and inputs; tool data, offsets, feeds and speeds, workhold configurations, measurement cycles, and production reports. I safely made target-quality parts in large quantity; torrefied maple wood parts for chisels and planes, and products from Baltic birch plywood, high-pressure laminates, acrylics, and other materials. I executed industrial flap sanding, manual rotary sanding, buffing/wax, router-table split-fence work, drill press, wood blanking, table sawing, jointing, planing, and final sharpening on select gouges, chisels, and particular carving sets.

April 2024 to May 2024, Veritas Tools - Machine Shop in the Leigh Business Unit. I machined parts from extruded aluminum used on the Leigh FMT Pro, D4R Pro Dovetail Jig with VRS, RTJ400, and Super Jigs.

May 2024 to September 2024, Veritas Tools - Machine Shop on the F.M.S. (Flexible Manufacturing System): an Automated-Modular-Pallet-System-Stacker Crane with 20 pallets (tombstones) connected to two 4-Axis Horizontal Mills, machining iron castings into Shooting planes, Plow planes, Combination planes, Router planes, Bench planes with Bevel-Up and Bevel-Down, Skew-Rabbet planes, Jack Rabbet planes, Box-makers, and aluminum castings into Dowel Makers.

September 2024 to January 2025, Veritas Tools - Manufacturing Associate II (MA II).

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