GAL News & Updates BECOME A MEMBERCurrent IssueAMERICAN LUTHERIEFLATTOP GUITARS 2New BookCLASSICAL GUITARSAnthology BookTerz GuitarNEW PLAN BECOME A MEMBERCurrent IssueAMERICAN LUTHERIEFLATTOP GUITARS 2Anthology BookCLASSICAL GUITARSAnthology BookTerz GuitarNEW PLAN 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 Premium Web Content Members can read a growing selection of our articles online. learn more CURRENT ISSUE OF AMERICAN LUTHERIE American Lutherie #145 - Spring 2022 Michael Bashkin makes ornamented pegheads and end grafts, using marquetry combined with veneer lines. Jeffrey Elliott reviews three of his major classical-guitar restorations. New York guitar repair guy Matt Brewster is interviewed by Evan Gluck. Mark French visits The Musical Instrument Museum in Arizona. Roger Haggstromm makes a simple hand-powered jig to accurately radius a fretboard without using power tools. Sjaak Elmendorp builds a piccolo balalaika. C.F. Casey makes two successful instruments from a single softwood two-by-four with a knot in it. R.M. Mottola precisely describes his process for slotting a guitar nut, using a laser-printed template. John Calkin steps us through his straightforward, no-nonsense process of routing control cavities in solid guitar bodies. Optimizing a verticaly-mounted electric bending iron. Reviews of RM Mottola's new book Building the Steel String Acoustic Guitar plus a deep video on Inlay Techniques with Larry Robinson. Plus In Memoriam, the "Worked for Me" column, Lutherie Curmudgeon, Letters, and more. New Instrument Plan Terz Guitar GAL Plan #80 Drawn by James Buckland RESCHEDULED Guild of American Luthiers 23rd Convention / Exhibition Summer 2023 - Tacoma Washington • See more information here • 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