This is Steve Mosher of Moses. I was born in a then-sleepy beach town in
southern California on April 23, 1952, being raised with an awareness of
design and detail fostered by an architect father who was a disciple of
Frank Lloyd Wright. As a teenager, I was a later 60's rocker / beach kid
who designed and constructed furniture, mosaic windows, surfboards,
hydrofoil belly boards, and automatic fish food feeders.

During the 1970's, I attended the architectural school at Arizona State
University in Tempe, Arizona, received a BLA in landscape architecture
from the University of Oregon, for a time became fully immersed in the
counterculture of rural Oregon, played the blues professionally with Blues
singer Curtis Salgado and singer/guitarist Robert Cray, and ended up
playing jazz and latin music professionally from 1976 through 1983.

In 1980, I produced my first carbon graphite neck while striving to
improve the performance of my '64 Fender Precision bass. Then in 1981, I
showed my first handmade fretless teardrop bass to a young bassist, Brian
Bromberg, at the Blue Parrot in La Jolla, California. After continuing to
develop composite necks during the 1980's, I received U.S. patent
#4,846,039 covering construction of carbon graphite necks. Moses, Inc.
was incorporated in 1989. That year Moses Graphite exhibited at our first
trade show, Winter NAMM, Anaheim, California. Moses has consistently
exhibited at both Summer and Winter NAMM shows since that time, along with
periodic attendance and exhibition at other regional and International
shows, such as Musik Messe, Frankfurt, Germany.

In the years since the inception of Moses, Inc., I have led the
development of and produced numerous carbon graphite innovations. These
have included commercially viable musical instrument necks for guitars,
basses,violins, banjos and mandolins, manufactured in the United States
using Moses' patented technologies. Moses has made the KP Series electric
upright basses, one exhibited in and a part of the permanent collection of
Paul Allen's Experience Music Project Museum, Seattle, Washington. EMP
curators stated that these basses "represent the cutting edge in creative
thinking". Of note, Moses constructed the first four all-composite Les
Paul guitar neck-through-body beams and shell bodies for Gibson Guitar, in
2003 and 2004. Additionally, Moses has produced various acoustic guitar
parts, including fingerboards, bridges, pick guards, and tailpieces, and
parts for classical stringed instruments, including pickups, bridges,
tailpieces, chin rests, shoulder rests, violin bodies, and fingerboards.
Moses-produced instruments and components have been exhibited in the
Boston Museum of Fine Art and the National Music Museum.

Through 2008, Moses has produced parts for Gibson/Steinberger, Fodera
Basses, Zon Basses, Rainsong Guitars, Chysalis Guitars, Soloette Travel
Guitar, Palm Guitar, Goldtone Banjo, NS Design, Stick Enterprises,
Breedlove Guitar, Tacoma Guitar, Steven Grimes, Alvarez /Yairi acoustic
guitars, Lemur Music (stringed instrument fingerboards), Scott Ambush and
numerous mid-size and small luthiers.

I still have a great deal of fun both running the Moses business and
messing around the shop, both dreaming up, developing and making stuff.

Examples include:
an adjustable height nut
a dial-in tailpiece
corrugated pre-forms
press tubes
tapered folded tube
folding body wings
the Moses style of Air Coupled Sensor pickup
a collapsable guitar shoulder hanger
various inlay techniques
cellulosic bio-composites
pivoting forked foot
pivoting bout
a cam bridge-tuner block
a golden mean spiral speaker enclosure
computerized sculptural carve tops
fiber optic lighting

Keep your mind and heart open...

Cheers.

Steve