American Lutherie #108 Winter 2011 This issue’s cover shows steel string guitar bridges under construction in the shop of longtime GAL member Kent Everett, whose highly efficient and prolific one-man operation is legendary. Photo by Kent Everett American Lutherie #108 – Winter 2011$5.00 – $7.00 Choose Membership Status Choose an optionMemberNon-memberClear American Lutherie #108 - Winter 2011 quantity Add to cart SKU: N/A Category: American Lutherie Additional information Additional information Choose Membership Status Member, Non-member Related products American Lutherie #133 – Spring 2018 $5.00 – $10.00 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page American Lutherie #107 – Fall 2011 $5.00 – $7.00 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page American Lutherie #116 – Winter 2013 $5.00 – $7.00 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page Workshop Evolution from his 2011 GAL Convention lecture by Kent Everett Kent Everett has worked in several different workshop spaces over his 35 years as a highly productive one-man operation. He walks us through the many changes and presents floor plans of six different workshops. This issue’s cover shows steel string guitar bridges under construction in the shop of longtime GAL member Kent Everett, whose highly efficient and prolific one-man operation is legendary. Photo by Kent Everett American Lutherie #108 – Winter 2011$5.00 – $7.00 Choose Membership Status Choose an optionMemberNon-memberClear American Lutherie #108 - Winter 2011 quantity Add to cart SKU: N/A Category: American Lutherie Additional information Additional information Choose Membership Status Member, Non-member Related products American Lutherie #130 – Summer 2017 $5.00 – $10.00 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page American Lutherie #131 – Fall 2017 $5.00 – $10.00 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page American Lutherie #126 – Summer 2016 $5.00 – $10.00 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page The back cover shows Kent Everett’s latest work. Photo by Kent Everett Meet the Maker: Stan Werbin by Roger Alan Skipper Stan Werbin started a guitar store called Elderly Instruments about the same time that the Guild of American Luthiers got going. He has become a major player in the vintage instrument scene and has been running a large and capable repair shop for decades. And he has consistently been a GAL member. Inside the Elderly Repair Shop by Roger Alan Skipper with Joe Konkoly A lot of fine craftspeople have passed through the Elderly Instruments repair shop over the years. Joe Konkoly is the current head honcho. He shows us a few cool tools that the Elderly staff has devised, and then shows us a recent major mandolin restoration. 1982 D’Aquisto Nylon String Guitar by James Condino Jimmy D’Aquisto was well known for his archtop guitars, to say the least. But he also made other instruments, including three nylon-string flattops. James Condino had the chance to study one of them and make a full-scale plan drawing of it. GAL Instrument Plan #65. GAL Instrument Plan #65: 1982 D’Aquisto Nylon String Guitar Drawn by James Condino Reduced plan image appears in article. For more information on the full-scale instrument plan, see GAL Instrument Plan #65. Legend of the Veneer Saw by Federico Sheppard The really good veneer has always been sawn, not sliced. It's rare these days, and veneer saws are relics of the industrial revolution. But there are still a couple of shops in France producing highest-quality sawn veneer on antique equipment. Our intrepid globe-trotter Federico Sheppard sought them out and brings us a photo essay. This article appears in our anthology book Tools and Jigs. Salvador Ibáñez Guitar Restoration by Sue Johnson This is one of those eye-popping stories about the sins of hobbyist guitar “repairers.” Sue Johnson opens up a family heirloom to find Bondo and enormous solid linings under nailed-on back binding. A Lower-Tech Ukulele Side Bender by John Calkin Calkin has been working out his bender chops for quite a while now both in his own work and as a part of the Huss & Dalton team. Here he shows us a form that is easy to make, and a simple process using a heat blanket, a couple pieces of sheet metal, a pistol-grip clamp, and a cheap thermometer. This article appears in our anthology book Tools and Jigs. Bridge Mask by R.M. Mottola Here’s an easy and reliable way to mask off the area of a soundboard where the bridge will eventually be glued. Mottola prints it on a peel-and-stick sheet, and includes useful marks for aligning it correctly to the fretboard. This article appears in our anthology book Tools and Jigs. Product Reviews by Roger Alan Skipper You want to cut clean and reliable neck dovetails with a router. Do you get the expensive aluminum jig, or the much more affordable plywood one? Skipper runs two commercial neck jigs through their paces. Read his detailed and lavishly illustrated review, then you decide. This article appears in our anthology book Tools and Jigs. Reviews by John Calkin, and Michael Darnton Reviews of Bogdanovich’s 10-DVD set on making a classical guitar; Everett’s DVD on setting up a steel string guitar; and that massive book on the conservation, restoration, and repair of stringed instruments. You know, the one from the Canadian arm of the International Pernambuco Conservation Initiative. Questions edited by R.M. Mottola Should a solera be domed all the w ay to the edge? What is mastic? How much do chemists really know about classic Cremona varnish? What’s the tension of a set of gut guitar strings? Why are plastic binding strips too short? Is kiln drying bad? These questions and more are answered in this issue. In Memoriam: Joseph Wallo by Mike Ashley (with help from Robert England, Richard Brune, David LaPlante, and Charles Vega) In 1962, Joe Wallo published a slim volume called “How to Make a Classic Guitar.” That makes him one of the granddaddies of the Lutherie Boom. Here’s a fond remembrance of a straight-shooting lutherie pioneer. Read his memoriam. Web Extras View photo gallery for this issue of American Lutherie. 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