As a guitarist fascinated by the acoustic jazz of Django Reinhardt's "Hot Club de France" quintet, Michael developed an interest in the Maccaferri guitar and the technology of the interior soundbox-reflector. His aim is to maximize the sound-projection abilities of the instrument, while preserving it's authentic "Django" tone.  He constructs his guitars to be balanced and responsive. The personal touch and technique of the player determine the sound of the instrument, because a good guitar responds in different ways in the hands of different players. 

       In our era, the term "hand-made" is applied, as often as not, to guitars produced by a sizable workforce assembling identical parts made by computer-controlled machinery.
Michael tunes an individual soundboard and select all it's adjacent components to match that tuning. Hence, no two instruments are exactly alike.  Maximum output from any given set of parts, personally selected, assembled and tuned is what he strives for, not standardization.