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Historical Lute Construction: Practicum Part Fourteen by Robert Lundberg
The GAL lute meister reaches the end of the line. Here he makes the nut, ties on the frets, and completes the set up. With a string tension formula, nut spacing diagram.
Fe, Fi, Faux Fender from a 1992 convention lecture by Dan Erlewine
How do you make a new electric guitar that looks like it spent forty years in the bar wars? Erlewine uses two finishes with incompatible shrink rates, rope, the concrete floor, you name it! Creativity can be harsh, but his Tele certainly looks vintage.
Segovia's 1937 Hauser: Top and Back Thicknesses by R.E. Brune
Brune made a map of plate dimensions using a new (and expensive) gizzy called the Elcometer. Then he decides that plate thickness probably isn't so big a deal. Well, at least you have a model to guide you.
A Look at Lutherie in Bubenreuth, Germany by David Riggs
Sometimes German instruments can look downright, well, German! Not the ones that Riggs captured on film, though. Perhaps the whole world is now one big melting pot.
Meet the Maker: Nick Kukich and Jeanne Munro by Jonathon Peterson
The folks from Franklin Guitars are outspoken and articulate. Are steel string makers really the "bottom feeders" of the guitar world? Kukich was there at the rebirth of the OM guitar.
The Ukranian Bandura: A Distant Relative of the Harp Guitar by Francis Kosheleff
A typical bandura looks like a melted acoustic guitar with about a hundred extra strings spread across the body. Okay, not that many. A lot, though. Kosheleff knows these Russians well.
Sullivan's Super Sander an interview with John Sullivan by Jonathon Peterson
Sullivan built a maximum performance thickness sander for $800 and 100 hours time.
Long Live King Koa! by Bart Potter
Harvesting wood in Hawaii, conserving it for the future, and looking at koa's working properties.
Heed Herr Helmholtz (or How I Built My First Guitar Twice) by Mike Doolin
Anyone willing to dismantle their first guitar deserves a lot of credit, especially if it came out cosmetically pristine the first time. Doolin replaced the top of his first guitar to bring the bass up to spec. With nine photos and a lot to think about.
Making Flat Cases by John Calkin
How to make hard-shell, vinyl-covered, fur-lined cases for instruments that won't fit into a stock case.
Product Reviews by Harry Fleishman
Fleishman has made himself an expert in the field of amplifying the acoustic guitar. Here he examines the Transducer/Mic Combo, from Dana Bourgeois Guitars, and decides that it is a "real bargain".
It Worked For Me
GAL members offer advice and tips about nut files, making dulcimers from scrap wood, silencing the hum of cheap acoustic guitar electronics, buying hardwood cut-offs, the Ryobi oscillating drum sander, checking for high or low frets, Olson & Silk abrasive drums, nut and saddle spacing templates, the Hurricane Blower, abalone and epoxy headstock caps and rosettes, heat sealing irons, and tuning peg tapers.
Sayonara, Sitka Spruce! by Larry Trumble
Trumble forecasts the future for one of lutherie's staple woods.
Questions edited by Cyndy Burton
Reader-supplied info about Canadian tonewood sources, shipping fretwire to Sweden, and a source for unusual strings.
Violin Q & A by Michael Darnton
Advice about making musicians happy with your work and dealing with student-grade instruments.
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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