"Whether you are an amateur woodworker or a professional, here’s where you can get quick, personal help with any finish problems. If you have questions about dye or pigment stains, sealers, waterborne finishes, lacquer, shellac, polyurethane, spray guns, or even sandpaper and masking tape, we can answer your questions."

Prepare to be challenged. Visit his beautiful Chrysalis Guitar website. But only enter if you have an open mind.

My good friend John Mickelson has developed a line of precision-made guitar fittings made from 10,000 year-old tusks of extinct alaskan walruses and pachyderms. This is an valuable opportunity for luthiers like me to be able to offer once again the notably distinctive and refined "ivory sound" on their guitars without fearing retribution from customs agents or animal-rights activists, or for that matter, our own consciences. The fittings are beautiful to look at and a great conversation piece (what else can you own that is 10,000 years old?) besides. A lot of interesting stuff on harvesting this beautiful and rare material also. Visit John and his rare tusk fittings here.