Thanks for stopping by, friends! My name is Joseph Hemphill. I am a husband, father, and a child of the King! I have a beautiful wife that puts up with all my 1,137 hobbies, three amazing kids that are equal parts precious and wild, and an amazing church family in Christ For The Nations Church (Come visit us if you are ever in the Nashville area!). The Lord has been so good to me, and I am thankful! It hasn’t always been easy, but He is good!

I have always loved the guitar and musical instruments in general! Even as a teen I was enamored with the construction of guitars. I had all kinds of books, spent WAY too much time online researching lutherie, and had even connected with a few builders on spec’ing out custom guitars that I was NEVER going to be able to afford. Let’s be honest…I just wanted to chat with them.

One fun story about my lutherie journey. Family vacation…I’m probably all of 14 or 15 years old, and we are traveling through VA. I beg my parents to stop at this small custom guitar shop. Miraculously, they agree. I give them the address…Staunton, VA. We pull up to the building…me, my two sisters, and my mom and dad. I knock on the door. Mind you, it’s a Sunday afternoon. No one opens the door. My parents tell me “Joe, we gotta go, it’s Sunday, no one is working…” I knock one more time. This young dude opens the door (He’s an intern and cleaning the shop up) and is like “Hello? Can I help you?” I respond by saying something to the effect of “Hey man, I love the guitars y’all are making, any chance I could see the shop?” That dude was so gracious and spent the next 3 hours of his life showing me and my family EVERY process and letting me play a batch of guitars that were heading out to clients…I’ll never forget you Huss & Dalton. Someday I’m gonna track that dude down and buy him lunch! I was hooked.

Fast forward to 2014…my wife and I were talking about how we wanted to be available to the Lord in whatever and to wherever he called us. Guitars just made sense, so here we are!