Welcome to charlotteguitars.com!
About the builder:Brian R. Irwin spent my late twenties and early thirties as a finish carpenter in Corvallis Oregon. A guitar player for about twenty years I decided to build my first guitar and after three months of toil to my amazement emerged what appeared to resemble a guitar. Albeit a big heavy clunky thing, it played remarkably well and stayed in tune. I play it to this day. But for all its design and aesthetic flaws it proved to me that I could be a luthier! Thus, with each successive guitar built the improvement curve remained steep and I decided to give it a go full time. My goal is to build about eighteen instruments a year. I build one at a time in my 10x10 shop. They are all handmade one of a kind instruments. Entirely finished via French polish method. My hands are the only ones that ever touch the guitar before its new owner takes control of it.
