Informed and inspired by a 20 year friendship with James L. D'Aquisto, Eric Miller has been building, repairing, and customizing instruments, working one on one with players for 17 years. He has taught guitar repair and construction courses at Boston's Berklee College of Music and the Evergreen State College.

     Eric is best known for impeccable craftsmanship, extreme attention to clients' needs, and an almost clairvoyant ability to bring out the best in an instrument. Meticulous fretwork is done using tension jigs for ultimate accuracy, and Eric has pioneered fingerboard preparation and finishing techniques that enhance tone and playability as well as duplicating the look and feel of the finest vintage patinas.

     He is a dealer of Tom Anderson, Morris, Robin, Gretsch, Dean, Stromberg, Everett, Larrivee, Rainsong, Breedlove, Garrison and D'Aquisto instruments as well as crafting his own Eric Miller Custom Guitars. Eric offers and is extremely knowledgeable about most brands of aftermarket pickups, both electric and acoustic. Hands on Guitars also carries designer pedals by Roger Mayer, Zachery Vex, and Frantone and maintains a large inventory of guitar specialty products such as fossil ivory wooly mammoth nuts, saddles, bridge and endpins; Tone Pros locking bridges, tailpieces and studs; and Virtuoso Guitar Cleaner and Polish.