About the Luthier:

      My name is Seth Miller.  I am 29 years old, and I live in Sioux Falls, SD, with my beautiful wife, Jessie, our new beautiful baby girl Laila, who was born on Feb 2, 2007, and our two dogs Snoopy and Tigger.  I have been a professional luthier for about 9 years, but a musician and woodworker for as far back as early teens.  I started my career out doing small repairs and setups for friends in high school and in college.  I worked as a carpenter with my father for many summers and learned the art of woodworking.  I became real interested in guitarmaking my freshman year in college.  From there, I knew what I wanted to dedicate my life doing.  I quit college and worked for a year, then attended Luthiers International in Atlanta GA, to learn guitarmaking and to get into the guitar repair game.  After recieving my luthiery certificate, I went on the work at Mars Music in Cherry Hill, NJ for a brief time as the guitar repairman, then at Mars Music in Omaha, NE as their repairman.  I was there for about a year until they went bankrupt and closed down. 

     I moved back to South Dakota  in 2001 to marry my girl and to continue in my guitarmaking career.  I  got really into the classical guitar, and decided to dedicate all my efforts into creating the most beautiful guitars in the world.  I took a full-time job at a small custom cabinet shop  to strengthen my skills in woodworking and also they let me use some of the power tools that I don't have and can't afford. In early 2007 I took a simliar job, but it is a lot more flexible so it's more condusive to guitar building and my family.

     I also have been active in doing guitar repair work on the side, when I'm not too busy building guitars. I became a member of The Guild of American Luthiers in 2005.  I also stay busy doing little woodworking projects here and there for family.  I put some pictures of some toyboxes I've made for my niece and nephew and a few others up on the website, I am taking orders for those too.  Just recently Guitar Center came to Sioux Falls, and I'm doing all their repair work, so I'm busy with that and also busy getting authorized by all the manufacturers to do warranty work. In February, my wife and I had our first child so we are excited and also staying busy. Hopefully soon enough I'll be able to build and fix guitars full-time at my shop at home, and have more time with the family. That's me in somewhat of a nutshell but I hope this helps in finding out a little about me and where I'm coming from.

                                                                       Seth Miller