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My name is Will Bright, and I've been a musician for over twenty years. I grew up in New England and moved to Santa Cruz, California after graduating from Wesleyan University in Connecticut.
I began playing guitar in grade school, followed quickly by the bass, and have studied rock, jazz, classical and fingerstyle. I also attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston for a summer program when I was fifteen. Over the years I've picked up the four and five-string banjos, and a little mandolin.
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As a young player, I had a small collection of inexpensive electric and acoustic guitars and basses.
My father had a work shop over the garage, and whenever anything went wrong with one of my instruments (and sometimes even when nothing was wrong with them) I would work on them out in the shop rather than pay a professional repairperson. During this time, though I had no formal training, my love for lutherie was born.
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Me sanding a 6 string bass neck.
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With Victor Wooten.
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I began my professional career as a Luthier at Sylvan Music in Santa Cruz. There I did setups and repairs on all types of stringed instruments; guitars, basses, banjos, mandolins, the entire violin family, and some more exotic world instruments such as charrangos, ouds, guitarrons, and vihuelas.
Working in the repair shop presented plenty of fun problems to solve, but it didn't always fulfill my creative drive, so I began building mandolins at home on a workbench I built in the corner of my laundry room.
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I've since moved to a new, larger shop, and have diversified into much more than mandolins.... Visit my Gallery.
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