Biography

Sen Goh has been building guitars part-time since 2007, mainly specialising in building classical guitar.

Beginning

Sen started off making guitar mainly learning from books and videos and with a kit from the LMI (famous Online Luthier Supplies Site but closed for good).
As time passes, Sen also managed to learn lutherie insights from various luthier forums and from experienced other luthiers friends like Alexandru Marian from Romania, David Chin from Australia; acquiring valuable knowledge such as how to tune the guitar sound board to achieve a good sounding guitar .
By adopting mainly scientific method of building, Sen aims to achieve a good sounding guitar consistently.
Sen has since built guitars of different styles including Torres, Simplicio, and Bouchet and incorporated new modern features to his guitars like sound ports and elevated fingerboard.

Philosophy

The main objective Sen hopes to achieve in each guitar is one with great projecting trebles with a controlled bass.
This can be achieved by controlling the bracing pattern and the guitar resonances.

Repair

In recent years, Sen has also help many local guitarist to repair and restore their guitars, ranging from as simple as guitar setup by adjusting the saddle height or repairing cracks for guitars that had unfortunate accidents.
Sen has also restored many other types of related string instruments such as oud and baroque guitars.
The most notable repair being restoring a baroque guitar which was crushed and the back was repaired by painstakingly piecing back all the small pieces like a zig-saw puzzle.

Community

Sen has participated in many guitar forums around the world sharing the joy of guitar making to the guitar communities.