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Let’s Catch Up with Steve Kinnaird

Let’s Catch Up with Steve Kinnaird by John Calkin Originally published in American Lutherie #154, 2025   You travel to several guitar shows. Do you feel they are important to your business? How often do you sell instruments at a show? It really has been not only good, but necessary to business. Of course, when […]

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Granddad’s Guitar

Granddad’s Guitar by Steve Kinnaird Originally published in American Lutherie #155, 2025   For my guitar #100 in 2014, I built a near replica of my granddad’s old white-oak parlor guitar. He bought it in the early 1900s, quite possibly as a mail order. With this he wooed my grandmother, and won her with “Spanish Fandango.” […]

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Acoustic Guitar Repair: Binding and Bridge Saver

Acoustic Guitar Repair: Binding and Bridge Saver by Alex Glasser and Brian Michael from their 2023 GAL Convention workshop Originally published in American Lutherie #155, 2025   Brian: Welcome, everybody. Alex and I worked together at Gryphon Stringed Instruments with Frank Ford for five years. A lot of our techniques stemmed from Frank’s techniques. Alex: Brian […]

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A Tale of Two Ditsons

A Tale of Two Ditsons or Trying to Make a Small Guitar Sound Big by Sjaak Elmendorp Originally published in American Lutherie #155, 2025   A colleague of mine, who purchased an all-mahogany Gibson L-OO copy from me a long while ago, is a frequent traveller and asked me to think about a travel guitar […]

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Thoughts on the Generation of Sound by Acoustic Guitars

Thoughts on the Generation of Sound by Acoustic Guitars by Sjaak Elmendorp Originally published in American Lutherie #155, 2025   The preceding article describes an attempt to create a small guitar that was loud, so it behooves us to wonder how sound is actually created by the plucked string. Assuming the string to be fixed […]

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