Cincinnati, Ohio, Don’t Fret Guitars, Devin Cherry and Spooky

Email   Facebook    Instagram    Reverb Don’t Fret Guitars is a husband and wife team who believe anything - and anyone - can make music.  Devin and Spooky have been building a life together as well as building one-of-a-kind stringed instruments since 2019.  Devin, a high school science teacher, started building guitars after his Science Olympiad team needed to build an instrument for a competition.  His students, determined to build a guitar, pushed him to find instructions to build a simple three-stringed box guitar.  After building that prototype, they would go on to build a six stringed acoustic guitar and take first place!  Devin was hooked. Spooky, a recording artist who used to work as an auto mechanic, joined the project after the first few builds. Since then, Devin and Spooky have together built over 100 instruments and counting.  They specialize in fretless three-string guitars built using cigar boxes, shovels and even boat paddles.  However, their growing list of builds incl