Royden Moran is a professional architect who cashed in his set square (but not his computer) in order to build fine acoustic and electric guitars. After 18 years in architecture, 10 as Chief architect for Greer Galloway, he resigned, took the summer of 1996 off, and traveled to Big Rapids Michigan to study guitar repair and construction at Bryan Galloup's Guitar Hospital . Back from Michigan in the fall of 1996 and ready to just do it, he was introduced to Wayne through a mutual friend, local musician John Crown. The rest is history.