In Memoriam: Ted Beringer by Bruce Harvie
Long-time GAL member Ted Beringer recently passed away. He was making guitars when we baby boomers were in diapers. We offer a fond remembrance by wood dealer Bruce Harvie.
Double Top Guitars by Randy Reynolds
Randy Reynolds shows us step-by-step how he builds a double-top guitar soundboard out of layers of spruce and Nomex honeycomb.
The Imperator: Revisiting the Lyra Guitar by Alain Bieber
Alain Bieber looks at the history of the lyra guitar and places it in the context of the neoclassical fad of Napoleonic Europe. He built a lyra guitar of his own design, and he reports encouraging results.
The Universal Vacuum Island by Charles Fox
Lutherie legend and jigmeister supremo Charles Fox is a true believer in vacuum for holding guitar bodies and gluing things together. He describes his vacuum island, a self contained unit that can function in even a tiny lutherie shop.
Meet the Maker: Benoit Meulle-Stef by Jonathon Peterson
Jon Peterson interviews French harp-guitar maker and scholar Benoit Meulle-Stef.
Rapid Prototypes of the Flattop Guitar by R.M. Mottola
Would you believe that you could slap together a quadrangular guitar with a screwed-on back and a Formica top, and actually learn something about what a spruce-topped, curvaceous guitar of that size would sound like? R.M. Mottola says that you can, and that it is an efficient and effective R+D technique.
Meet the Maker: Jose "Pepito" Reyes Zamora by Fred Casey
Jose "Pepito" Reyes Zamora is a leader in the movement to restore the Puerto Rican tiple to its former level of cultural prominence. Fred Casey travels to Puerto Rico to meet him.
A Different Way of Defining Body Shapes by Mark French
If you are a big, powerful CNC milling machine, "numerical" is your middle name. And those numbers have to come from somewhere. Math prof Mark French shows us how they might profitably come from equations graphed on polar coordinates.
Product Review: Klumper tools by John Mello
John Mello reviews the edge vise, head slotter, and rosette cutter from Chris Klumper's Luthier Tool Company.
Lutherie Under Glass by Ervin Somogyi
A group of luthiers in Northern California were invited to mount an informative display in a public art gallery space consisting of a long set of windows on a city street. Ervin Somogyi tells us all about it.
It Worked for Me
Make your own sanding blocks to any radius. Marco Del Pozzo shows us how in this time's "Worked for Me" column.
