Greetings, I want to welcome you to something special. We are Charlie Mike Guitars. A small guitar building company. The venture started in 2019, when I was looking at buying a guitar. Looking at the prices and such, I looked at them and thought, “those wouldn’t be that hard to build”. I started with looking at just building a single guitar for myself. I looked at kit guitars to start. I spent countless hours looking at various manufacturers. So, I thought, they wouldn’t be hard to make these myself and skip buying the kit, after all I was going to be discarding the electronics and using my own upgrades. I then shifted gears to researching building them.

Through this, I met two guys that have inspired much of how and what I do. Matt and Chris at Texas Toast Guitars have been such a huge help in getting me going. In early 2020 as Covid was just about to hit, I visited them for the first time. I spent a week there, helping them build their new paint booth, seeing how they themselves had just made the move from a shop in a garage, to a full-time location. In the coming couple years, I would spend several more weeks with them. Even taking one of their classes they offer.

When Covid took the country down, I took advantage of it and started with the plans of what would become Charlie Mike Guitars. I built my first scratch build guitar for the 2020 Great Guitar Build Off – Unofficial. I gained many followers on my social channels through this. In the coming couple years, I purchased many machines for building my guitars, including a Jet Pin Router! My prized machine procurement.

My wonderful wife Tammy continues to support this project, through buying me machines or letting me buy them. I am about done with machine I need, and about to start with upgrading the needs, and even buying the wants. The wants are machines that will make certain processes faster and easier

I look forward to sharing the goings on in the company through this blog. I also plan on sharing helpful information that people will find valuable, not only builders, but players as well.

Thank you and have a great day!!!

-Doug