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108 Monticello Road, Suite 400,
Weaverville NC, 28787
Store Hours: Mon-Fri 9am-4pm EST
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Showroom (by appointment only):
108 Monticello Road, Suite 400,
Weaverville NC, 28787
Store Hours: Mon-Fri 9am-4pm EST
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My name is Chris Ensor. Guitars have been a part of my life from a very young age. I have enjoyed playing for many years now. My journey into lutherie began in high school. I have always had a do-it-yourself sort of mentality. So when I didn’t see what I wanted on the guitar store shelves anymore, I figured I would just build a guitar myself. My very first experiment was extremely unplanned. I decided I could build an acoustic guitar in a weekend- not knowing anything about how they were constructed other than what my eyes could see. My materials were a 2×4 and some plywood. Needless to say, I didn’t get a very good result.For my next attempt, I decided to take a more educated approach to building. I read a book by Bob Benedetto a couple of times through and then took a stab at building a jumbo archtop guitar. When the dust had all settled, I had made just about every beginner mistake in the book. But, I had also learned a lot, too.From there, my building education took me to Canada. Taking a suggestion from my father, I enrolled in a guitar building course under master luthier Sergei de Jonge. The course taught building from raw materials all the way through finishing. I finally had a guitar I could be proud of. Sergei taught me how to build practically- with out the use of CNCs. Most of the methods he taught implemented hand tool and simple jigs.I came home from Canada with a fire burning inside me. I guess you could say I got bit by the lutherie bug. And yes, it is contagious. I now build in my own climate controlled shop in Springfield, Missouri.