About Paul
Paul Willett, True Fret Guitar
After 40 years in the computer/IT business, With the support of my loving wife (who is by the way also my best friend), I am finally following a path which is my passion.
I have been around music from an early age – In the D.C. area at 11 years old I started with drums, Drums introduced me to rock bands, The Washington Redskins Marching Band, and led me to college as a Percussion Major. I had taught myself to play the guitar through the years, I was taught the first three chords by Jimmy Barnett. Of course those three chords were to Gloria which was a very popular song that we played together in our old 60’s Maryland area band “The Missing Links”. Jimmy is now playing his same quality music up in heaven allowing Jesus to Rock. Though I was a Percussion Major at the University of Maryland I ended up enlisting in the Navy and took my first cruise to Vietnam. Stayed in the Navy for over 8 years and to this day I still love those who served in the military, and those who are serving!
I married my wife Sharon in 1999. Sharon recognized immediately that I had a passion for music. Sharon promotes my hobby/habit. I have collected several guitars and have become a much better player, with the urge to keep improving. On January 30th, 2009 I have made a “Quantum Leap” from a “Secure” IT job into my own guitar repair business “True Fret Guitar” in Milton, Wisconsin. Included in my leap was attending and graduating from one of the premier guitar luthier schools in the U.S. – Brian Galloup School of Luthier in Big Rapids Michigan. Though I had experience in guitar repair and electronics I wanted to add “The school of Luthier” to my resume. After research I found that Brian Galloup was a great choice!
This is just an introduction of myself, which doesn’t really happen on most websites, this is my business and I honestly look forward to meeting musicians at all levels!
