Taku Sakashta' Unicorn & Mustang brand mandolins are available with scrolls running clockwise or counterclockwise, your choice. See this issue's cover.
In Memoriam: Robert Lundberg
Lute maker and GAL author Robert Lundberg passed away in March of this year. We present remembrances by family, friends, and collegues.
Meet the Maker: Harry Fleishman by Ken Goodwin
Fleishman has been a guitar and bass designer/builder, a teacher of lutherie and writing, a longtime member of the GAL, a frequent contributor to AL and its current product reviewer. Harry is as well-known for his outrageous sense of humor as for the outrageous instruments he creates. Read all about it in this issue.
A Bridge for the 21st Century by Scott van Linge
The author has some unique ideas about how bridge and brace shape and weight effect the volume and tone of flattop guitars. His ultimate guitar bridge is going to make a lot of traditionalists nervous, but it is pretty in a minimalist fashion and should be a winner if it does what he claims.
Meet the Maker: Sebastian Stenzel by Greg Hanson
Sebastion Stenzel is an up-and-coming maker of classic guitars in Germany. He shares his thoughts on guitar design, learning lutherie, woods, and the German government's process of certifying craftsmen.
Conical Fretboard Radiusing Jig by Mike Nealon
Mike Nealon shows us how to make a compact router jig which will mill a compound radius onto the surface of a fretboard.
Meet the Maker: Taku Sakashta by Jonathon PetersonTaku Sakashta is an inventive young guitar maker who moved to the USA from Japan ten years ago after working as a prototype developer in a large guitar factory and an instructor in a lutherie school. We meet him in this issue and look at some of his archtop, flattop, and electric instruments.
Wet Inlay by John Calkin
Wet inlay. In architecture they call it terrazzo. You set a gravel of turquoise or other soft mineral with epoxy in a routed cavity, then grind it off flat. You get cool inlay effects that would otherwise be impossible. John Calkin runs us through a number of variations.
Vincente Tatay and His Guitars by Steve Newberry
Steve Newberry was a teenager in 1943 when he began to hang around the shop of classic guitar maker Vicente Tatay in New York City. Mr. Tatay was not very friendly, but Steve learned a lot in any case. That's Steve in the photo, not Vicente.
Kit Review: Musicmaker's Hurdy-Gurdy by John Calkin
John Calkin reviews the hurdy-gurdy kit from Musicmakers. Of course that means he built it, and he treats us to a quick step-by-step.
Product Reviews by Harry Fleishman
Harry Fleishman reviews masking tape. Actrually, it's the brown paper tape that is great for gluing on binding.
CAD Notebook by Dana Bourdeois
Dana Bourgeois continues his CAD column. In this episode he is drawing the outline of a dreadnought.
Plus book review, letters, Q+A, and more!
