Guild of American Luthiers
American Lutherie #84 Extras
Winter Issue 2005


Page 6 - 19th-Century Rosette Marquetry for 21st-Century Guitars by Gregory Byers

Here's Greg Byers' website. http://www.byersguitars.com/


Page 18 - Meet the Maker: Del Langejans by Mark Swanson

That's Del in the middle, with his customer Earl Klugh on the left. Del's customer Thom Bresh has some interesting information about the double-neck, double-top guitar. Click on his picture to see it. You want to click on the link that says "The Super Dualette".

Page 28 - Manuel Reyes: Guitarrero by R.E. Bruné

Peghead of
1959 guitar
Rosette of
1963 guitar.
Front of
1970 guitar.
Back of
1970 guitar.
Peghead of
1970 guitar.
Rosette of
1970 guitar.
Label of 1970 guitar. Bridge of 1970 guitar.

Author R.E. Brune has an informative website: http://www.rebrune.com/main.html

The 2003 Reyes Flamenco Guitar plan was drawn by Tom Blackshear. He also has a nice website: http://tguitars.home.texas.net/Web%20frame%20opening.htm

Also check out the website of Chris Kamen, the dealer who owned the guitar at the time it was drawn by Tom Blackshear: http://www.classicguitar.com


Page 57 - Product Reviews by Keith Davis

Keith Davis reviewed The Luthier's Friend, a sanding attachment for a drill press. Here's the website for The Luthier's Friend: http://www.luthiersfriend.com/


Page 58 - Reviews by James Condino, Randy DeBey and John Calkin

Our Reviews column featured four publications. Here's a link for each:

Setup and Repair of the Double Bass by Chuck Traeger - http://www.henrystrobel.com

Baxter's Database of Violin and Bow Makers (CD-ROM) - http://members.aol.com/violinmakers/violinmakers.html

Build a Steel String Guitar with Robert O'Brien (DVD) - http://www.obrienguitars.com

Building an Acoustic Guitar (VHS) - http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Video,_DVD,_software/Acoustic_guitar_building/Video_Building_an_Acoustic_Guitar.html


Page 64 - Questions edited by Cyndy Burton

And this web-based machine shop was mentioned in our Questions column: http://www.emachineshop.com


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