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Talk About Archtops: an interview with Steve Andersen, Steve Grimes and Ted Beringer by Jonathon Peterson
This informal roundtable discussion delves deeply into the background, influences, and work of three builders at a time when the archtop guitar was just coming into its own for the second time.
Logging Luthiers by Steve Banchero and Janet Toon
as told to Cyndy Burton A collection of violin and cello makers harvest spruce in the national forest.
Voicing the Steel String Guitar transcribed from a convention lecture by Dana Bourgeois
This is perhaps the strongest article ever published in American Lutherie about voicing the top and bracing of the steel string guitar. The fall-out from this piece has been very wide spread.
Graduation Marking Device by Michael Darnton
Darnton's contrivance marks the finished thickness on violin plates that have already been carved to within 1mm-2mm of final tolerances, and it is simple to make.
Meet Ivo Pires by Jonathon Peterson
America (and indeed, the world) is so deep with people who have had a meaningful life in some phase of lutherie that we should cease being surprised to discover an unknown person who has already racked up thirty or forty years of experience. Pires is one of those folks, and his story is charming and illuminating. The cream seems to rise wherever it may be.
A Low Cost Bass by Frederick C. Lyman, Jr.
Lyman builds a bass with a lauan body and a top of quartersawn 2x4s, and is quite pleased with the outcome. There are only two photos, but a lot of text. Lyman's conventional basses are in the hands of many well-known musicians. He certainly knows the difference between good and bad instruments. Part 2 follows in the next issue.
Low Cost Bass: An Instrument Plan by Frederick C. Lyman, Jr.
This is a reduced version of our half-scale blueprint: GAL Instrument Plan #29, which also includes a full-scale body outline.
Working With Koa by Bob Gleason
A Hawaiian guitar maker passes on some of his tricks for the successful use of an indigenous wood. With four photos of his sidebending procedure.
Historical Lute Construction: Practicum Part Six by Robert Lundberg
This segment deals primarily with veneering the neck and getting it fitted and glued to the bowl. This series is 19 episodes in length.
Violin Q & A by Michael Darnton
Details include cooking varnish, finishing necks, causes of neck cracks, and adjusting a peg shaper to match your peg reamer.
Try Cherry! by John Calkin
Calkin encourages the use of alternative tonewoods. He offers advice about choosing cherry boards and methods of finishing cherry instruments that he has found attractive.
It Worked For Me
A new column offers quick advice about many aspects of the business. This time mixed materials are used for a steel string saddle to balance the signal of a transducer; a piece of snare drum head is used as a mask while doing fret work; a heat lamp is partially suspended from the ceiling for convenience and space saving.
Questions edited by Cyndy Burton
The column offers information about electric guitar wiring diagrams, a new guitar making course, and a source for hurdy-gurdy plans.
Review of 10 wood books. Reviewed by Nicholas Von Robison.
Buy these books if: wood mystifies and intrigues you; you want to know how to use a species; you want to identify a species; you want to know where a species grows; you want to try a new wood for a specific purpose; your curiosity is making you crazy.
This issue is no longer available individually. Its contents are
included in The Big Red Book of American Lutherie, Vol. 2.
(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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