How SixStringers and Wild Plectrum came to be:

I don't think making guitar picks is something anyone aims for as a career. It happens through an evolution of experimentation and passion to get the most play and sound from the guitar. Next thing you know... people you know are asking for the picks, their friends too... and they are telling you make them for sale because they believe in them enough to pay you for the picks you make. And so it goes, one step follows the next.

How FretMaestro came to be:

A different point of view: When a task is especially difficult to do it means it can be done better to make it easier.
The old school way of leveling and profiling frets is very difficult, it requires the patience of a saint, and the skills of a guru luthier to get it done right. Look at the old school tools... flat and straight tools for doing radius work is no different than forcing a square peg into round hole. It's counterintuitive... how is that the right way? That is the thinking taht led to FretMaestro: Making it right.