News & Updates - Holiday Order Deadlines and More Fall / Winter IssueAMERICAN LUTHERIEBECOME A MEMBERMembershipBenefitARTICLESONLINEHARP GUITARSNew BookFUN STUFFDouglas Ching Slack-Key GuitarNEW PLANCLASSICAL GUITARS 2Anthology Book1972 - 2022CELEBRATING OUR50th ANNIVERSARYFLATTOP GUITARS 2Anthology Book Fall / Winter IssueAMERICAN LUTHERIEBECOME A MEMBERMembershipBenefitARTICLESONLINEHARP GUITARSNew BookFUN STUFFDouglas Ching Slack-Key GuitarNEW PLANCLASSICAL GUITARS 2Anthology Book1972 - 2022CELEBRATING OUR50th ANNIVERSARYFLATTOP GUITARS 2Anthology Book The Guild of American Luthiers is a nonprofit educational membership organization whose purpose is to facilitate learning about lutherie: the art, craft, and science of stringed musical instrument building and repair. Since 1972, we’ve been the foremost source of information for makers, repairers, and restorers of all kinds of string instruments. Guild membership and publications are open to all. Whether you’ve been making instruments for years, or have just acquired the lutherie bug; whether you live in Brooklyn or Bangladesh; whether lutherie is your livelihood or your passion or both; we invite you to join the Guild and learn more about the many ways you can benefit from and contribute to our information sharing system! Membership Benefits Member Discounts Members get discounted prices on our books, back issues, plans, and more. learn more American Lutherie Our respected journal American Lutherie is the main benefit of GAL membership. learn more Articles Online Members can read a growing selection of our articles online. learn more CURRENT ISSUE OF AMERICAN LUTHERIE American Lutherie #153 - Fall/Winter 2024 In our biggest-ever issue of American Lutherie, you’ll find detailed articles based on three presentations from our 2023 Convention: James Condino on the process and advantages of lamination, Barry Grzbik on the thought that goes into designing his electric Grez guitars, and an examination by Mark French of what we do and don’t know about making guitars. Then we rewind to the 2017 GAL Convention for the first installment of a three-part series on Robbie O’Brien’s classical guitar building course. Also included are a 1939 Martin 0-18 guitar plan, Steve Kennel’s cheap Stella Jumbo build, and lots more. Plus, two great encore articles: the archtop guitar building panel from our 2008 Convention, and John Calkin’s funky guitar resurrection project. See details in the AL#153 preview. The Fall/Winter 2024 issue will be mailed to 2024 members in December. New Instrument Plan 1982 Douglas Ching Slack-Key Guitar GAL Plan #81 Drawn by Tim Olsen July 5-9, 2023 Guild of American Luthiers 23rd Convention / Exhibition Tacoma Washington • See photos of our big event! • Looking for Something? You can search abstracts of all our articles. Pick a topic, pick an author, or search for a word. It’s fun! go to search page Resources Are you just getting started in guitar making, or thinking about becoming a luthier? Or are you an experience builder looking for an event or hard-to-find supplies? See our Resources page with links to lutherie schools, suppliers, organizations, events and more! browse resources
