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CITES Paperwork Update by R.E. Brune
If you attempt to move across international borders any artifact containing wood from a CITES tree (which includes Brazilian rosewood) you may risk confiscation if first you don't fill out the right forms and pay the proper fees. It's a slow and expensive process, and Brune's forecast for the future is even scarier.
James L. D'Aquisto: Building the Archtop Guitar: A Brief Overview by Tim Olsen
Nobody built a better archtop than D'Aquisto. Olsen outlines the procedures and peculiarities of a famous luthier's work.
James L. D'Aquisto: Building the Archtop Guitar: The Soundboard by Tim Olsen
Olsen travels from the general (in the preceding article) to the specific. He zeros in on D'Aquisto's soundboard work for a detailed examination.
Meet the Maker: John Koster by Nicholas Von Robison
How does a man become conservator to a famous collection of stringed instruments, and just exactly what does he do after he's there? Koster maintains the collection at the Shrine to Music Museum.
Violin Setups, Part Two by Michael Darnton
And you thought you knew all there was to know about making that fiddle play. Darnton continues his instruction from American Lutherie #35. This time he tunes and fits the bridge, strings, tailpiece, saddle, and end button.
Historical Lute Construction: Practicum Part Thirteen by Robert Lundberg
Lundberg cleans, scrapes, waxes and oils the various parts of the lute that will not receive French polish treatment. With two recipes for lute wax. Also included is a guide to all 19 installments and plans of this series.
Cutting Michigan Maple by Elon Howe
Another luthier turns woodcutter, and maple isn't the half of it. With photos and a diagram for sawing logs into "bastard cut" mandolin wood.
Floyd by Nicholas Von Robison
Local color and good humor are key ingredients of this peek at an independent-minded violin maker. Arizona rosewood? Manzinita tuning pegs?
Ash Varnish: A modern Alchemist's Recipe by Keith Hill
Hill cooks up a varnish that resembles the fiddles in the early paintings, not those same fiddles three hundred years later. A hundred years from now he expects his violins to be prettier than anyone's.
Questions edited by Cyndy Burton
Burton assembled a list of plans for all the instruments she could find, and a list of sources for those plans.
Getting down to BASSic's by Frank Bolger
The Bay Area Society of Stringed Instruments Craftspersons puts on its first exhibit. This organization is now called NCAL
Product Reviews by Harry Fleishman
Fleishman spent a month doing all his repairwork on The Apprentice, an instrument holder from WidgetWorks, and declares that he can't give it up.
Violin Q & A by Michael Darnton
Darnton reflects upon bass bar design and tap tone pitches for viola and cello.
Electronic Answer Man by Rick Turner
Turner's column is all about the essential electronic measuring instruments for the guitar shop.
Review: The History and Artistry of National Resonator Instruments by Bob Brozman Reviewed by Ron Lira.
The reviewer says, "I'm so impressed with this book I could just bust!" Apparently America now has a National heaven.
It Worked For Me
Reader tips about carving instruments with a chain saw disc on a grinder, clamping violin fingerboards, making waterproof hide glue, deep-throat sockets and nut wrenches, making templates from computer print-outs, and cutting ceramic nuts with a diamond file.
This issue is no longer available individually. Its contents are
included in The Big Red Book of American Lutherie, Vol. 4.
(excluding any of the Historical Lute Construction articles by
Robert Lundberg which are available in a book by the same name)
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