It's about Sound & Feel & Beauty

Build it Yourself:
More than just a vacation ~ It's an investment!

2009 is our second year of offering a great vacation package where you spend a week with us, work very hard, and leave with an unbelievable guitar that you built yourself; which is worth more than the cost of your vacation! We really enjoy opening our home to new friends along with providing a boardinghouse style vacation which includes 3 meals a day, a comfortable bed, and continuous conversation about guitars. Norm takes the time to teach you about what he did to prepare your guitar pieces, and carefully guides you through the process of carving your bracing, assembling your body, carving and attaching your neck and fretting over your fingerboard. A truly memorable vacation that ends with more than just photos and memories, it ends with the guitar you'll play for the rest of your life. Click on "Guitar Camp" at the left to see videos of actual classes.

New Classes for 2009 & 2010

We've added a Pre-Holiday class! December 6th - 13th, 2009. The base price is $3,780.

Teen Camp: By popular demand we're going to do our first Teen camp next year. The kids will put together and finish their own solid body electric guitars. This first camp will not be residential, sorry. We are taking 4 students. The base price is $2,980. We expect this to fill fast.

For 2010 our class schedule looks like:

• Presidents Day Week - February 14-21 - Base price $3,780

• Memorial Day Week - May 23-30 - Base price $3,780

• Summer Teen Camp - July  26-31 - Base price $2,980

• Labor Day Camp - September 5-12 - Base price $4,280

• Pre-Holiday Week - December 5-12 - Base price $4,280

The best deal: There's still room in our September 6-12, 2009, class - Base price $3,280

Designing your Dream Guitar 

Norm continues to take orders for custom guitars. His custom guitars are really custom, with inlay, body size, neck shape and wood choices all made to make your dream of the perfect guitar come true. His guitars are the instrument of choice at recording studios and are gaining well deserved international recognition. He enjoys working with each customer to design and build his/her dream guitar. Select "Luthier Services" at the left to learn more about making your dream guitar become reality.

Guitar Restoration & Repairs

When you have a guitar you love, or discover one under your Uncle Vern's bed that needs some tender-loving-care, there is no one better to bring it to than Norm Haight. He will carefully study your instrument, do any research necessary to provide you with up-to-date  values, and discuss with you what he will do to restore or repair your guitar.

Remember that we are ready to help in any way we can;  so call us: 480-609-6650.

     Sharon & Norman Haight

Norman Haight - master luthier

Norman Haight began his music career with the violin at age ten. He moved on to oboe, which he studied for six years. His passion for the guitar started at age fourteen and he began teaching at age sixteen. Norm started to build his first guitar in 1989, which he continues to use in his recordings today.

Now a seasoned luthier, Norm crafts quality steel-string and classical nylon-string guitars along with all manner of strummed stringed instruments, complementing them with a variety of original designs and inlays. He also repairs and restores any stringed instrument.

Norm loves to share his passion for the guitar and teaching is one of his favorite methods. He and his wife open their home several times a year for a special guitar building camp, 1 Week - 1 Guitar, where three fledgling luthiers get to build their own guitars under his tutelage. He also gives presentations about guitar construction and maintenance to youth groups and civic organizations.

Norm lives with his wife of 29 years, Sharon, and their son, Mikki (who is a student at ASU and an expert at inlay), at their homestead: Rosewood Weyr, in the beautiful desert region of Scottsdale, Arizona. Here they open their home as their showroom where they offer guitars crafted by independent luthiers, including the extraordinary instruments Norm makes. Norm's shop and teaching area are located here too. They also hold Acoustic Jam Nite every Tuesday evening.

Norman talks with Darla of AZ Outdoors

Member of:

Guild of American Luthiers   

 
Association of Stringed Instrument Artisans

Arizona Better Business Bureau

Visitors: reset April 2009.

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