Using Your Work Space from the 1990 GAL Convention Lecture by Chris Brandt, Richard Brune, Jeffrey Elliott, Richard Schneider, Ervin Somogyi and David Wilson
A look inside the shops of six professional luthiers, featuring floor plans, tooling descriptions, notes on lighting and specialized machinery, and ideas about how work space can help (or hurt) your lifestyle. With a good Q&A segment.

Building the Prima Gusli by James H. Flynn
This instrument is a unique and graceful-looking Russian folk psaltery, a sophisticated version of the lap harp grade schoolers play by sliding numbered sheet music under the strings.

Prima Gusli: An Instrument Plan by James H. Flynn
This is a shrunken version of our full-scale Instrument Plan #31.

The Portuguese Guitarra: A Modern Cittern by Ronald Louis Fernandez
This instrument is a lovely looking cittern, sort of a big mandolin with 12 strings. The traditional tuners are unique, compact, and distinctly ungraceful, but they allow — indeed, encourage — the use of a wonderfully distinctive headstock.

An Interview with Hideo Kamimoto by Joseph R. Johnson
The famous repairman/author discusses his book, his history as a luthier, and his expectations for his own future.

Condit's Clamp-O-Rama by Michael Darnton
This is a humorous photo of some specialized clamps developed by Condit for violin repair.

A Day on Lost Mountain by Jonathon Peterson
Richard Schneider discusses his current work at "the most beautifully situated guitar shop in the world." The Kasha influence upon the classical guitar keeps evolving in the hands of this masterful builder/teacher.

Questions edited by Cyndy Burton
How does one learn lutherie? Here's a list of schools, programs, organizations and journals that can help. Also, a Rhode Island luthier offers his experience with water-based lacquers and the new polyurethanes.

Violin Q & A by Michael Darnton
Darnton explains how to disassemble a fiddle, and the effects of soundhole size on violin performance.

It Worked For Me
The column offers notes on steel scrapers, lining clamps, and a complete graduated chart of drill bit sizes using number, metric, fraction, and letter sets.

Review: The Fender Guitar by Ken Archard. Reviewed by K. Kobie.
The reviewer finds that this book is a well-written, useful reference about all Fender guitars.

Review: The Modern Classical Guitar For Friend or Builder by Donald M. Sprenger. Reviewed by C.F. Casey.
The reviewer finds this book to be an uneven rehash of other material with very crude drawings. It doesn't seem that he cared for it.

This issue is no longer available individually. Its contents are
included in The Big Red Book of American Lutherie, Vol. 3.