Eight-year GAL member Andy Birko started making instruments as a hobby back in the mid-’90s, but when neither electrical engineering for the auto industry nor medical equipment sales really panned out, he turned his high-tech CNC hobby into a full-time business. Now Andy is the owner/operator of Birkonium LLC which manufactures many items for luthiers such as necks, inlay, and tools.

▪ bio current as of 2019