American Lutherie #116 Winter 2013 On this issue’s cover, Trevor Healy is preparing a mahogany neck blank to receive an ebony backstrap. Photo by Trevor Healy American Lutherie #116 – Winter 2013$5.00 – $7.00 Choose Membership Status Choose an optionMemberNon-memberClear American Lutherie #116 - Winter 2013 quantity Add to cart SKU: N/A Category: American Lutherie Additional information Additional information Choose Membership Status Member, Non-member Related products American Lutherie #113 – Spring 2013 $5.00 – $7.00 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 #130 – Summer 2017 $5.00 – $10.00 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page Beyond the Rule of 18: Intonation for the 21st Century from their 2011 GAL Convention lecture by Gary Magliari and Don MacRostie Gary Magliari is an engineer who has taken a close look at the math of steel string intonation. He has decided that to really do it right, you need to adjust the position of the bridge, the nut, and some of the frets. Don MacRostie is convinced that the improvement is worth the effort, and he takes over the talk to show how he recuts the fret slots on a mandolin. On this issue’s cover, Trevor Healy is preparing a mahogany neck blank to receive an ebony backstrap. Photo by Trevor Healy American Lutherie #116 – Winter 2013$5.00 – $7.00 Choose Membership Status Choose an optionMemberNon-memberClear American Lutherie #116 - Winter 2013 quantity Add to cart SKU: N/A Category: American Lutherie Additional information Additional information Choose Membership Status Member, Non-member Related products American Lutherie #124 – Winter 2015 $5.00 – $10.00 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page American Lutherie #115 – Fall 2013 $5.00 – $7.00 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page American Lutherie #114 – Summer 2013 $5.00 – $7.00 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page The back cover shows a comfortably cluttered workbench at Tom Cussen’s Clareen Banjos, with a large window looking out on the Irish rain. Photo courtesy of Rick Rubin Meet the Maker: William Eaton by Tom Harper Renaissance man William Eaton is a musician, composer, impresario, instrument designer, outdoorsman, and athlete. But he is probably best known to our readership as a lutherie instructor, having cofounded the Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery and taught there up to the present day. But he very nearly took an entirely different career path, one that would have seen him wearing nicely tailored suits. Read all about it in this issue. Carl Samuels: Lutherie Before the Information Age by Tom Harper The early foundations of the American Lutherie Boom were laid by a fascinating cast of unlikely characters, whose chance encounters and interactions have shaped the world we live and work in. Who is Carl Samuels, and why is he sending rats on acid trips? Battling Shop Dust by Robbie O’Brien As an instrument maker and lutherie instructor, Robbie makes a lot of wood dust. After a short review of the relative dangers of different sizes of dust particles, he goes on a quest to improve his dust collection system. He finds a compact and cost-effective solution. Dust Masks and More by Linda Stuckey Do you really need to wear a dust mask in a lutherie shop? What type should you buy? Are the expensive ones any better? Do they still work if you wear a beard? Is it OK to blow them out and use them again? Linda gets the information you need. The New England Luthiers’ OM Collaborative Build by Don Boivin Wouldn’t it be great fun to get together with a bunch of buddies and all make similar guitars at the same time? You could share tips, encouragement, and pizza along the way. Then you could get some good players and have a concert in which all the guitars were played. Yeah, let’s do that! And let’s make it an annual event. Meet the Maker: Tom Cussen by Rick Rubin Irishman Tom Cussen got the folk music fever back in the ’60s. He played the accordion as a kid, but when the squeeze-box broke he went for his brother’s banjo. He founded a popular folk band and has now become a banjo manufacturer. A cautionary tale for children! Flamenco Guitar Evolution by Mark Berry Mark Berry got a commission from a flamenco player to build a guitar that sounded and played like a flamenco and was built of traditional material, and yet did not have the traditional look. He produced a double-cutaway guitar with two soundholes. Have a look! Making an Archtop Pickguard by Nate Clark Nate Clark was restoring an older Gibson archtop and decided to make a new pickguard to replace the deteriorating original. He takes us on a closeup photo journey through the process, and it turns out pretty. The Mariachi Humpback by Fred Casey Those crazy-deep, two-piece vaulted backs are the distinctive feature of guitar-family instruments often used in mariachi bands. Every try to make one? C.F. “Fret” Casey dives in and gives it a try. Cutting the Scroll Slot on an F-5 Mandolin by Byron Spain That skinny little slot that forms the scroll of a Gibson-style mandolin presents a challenge: cut the back, block, and top separately and try to get them to line up when assembled, or assemble them first and then try to cut an accurate slot through a formidable chunk of material? Lefty Luthier Byron Spain shows us how he does it. Reviews: Technology of the Guitar by R.M. Mottola Mottola gives an enthusiastic review to this book, intended as a college text for students without advanced math skills. Letters from our readers In the Great White North, Glen Friesen is still teaching kids to make guitars in his public school shop class. You go, Glen! It Worked for Me by Eron Harding, January Williams, Jack Johnston, Mark Berry, and Paul Weaver Eron resurrects old potentiometers in a vintage lap steel guitar. January makes a simple gizmo to measure the height of a guitar brace through the soundhole. Jack rigs up a buffing arbor for a Shopsmith. Paul sings the praises of toothed plane blades. Questions edited by R.M. Mottola How do you get rosette tiles to fit? How does silking affect soundboard grading? Why are steel string guitar fretboards radiused? Can you still get Saf-T-Planers? Web Extras View photo gallery for this issue of American Lutherie. American Lutherie #135 – Winter 2018 American Lutherie #134 – Summer 2018 American Lutherie #133 – Spring 2018 American Lutherie #132 – Winter 2017 American Lutherie #131 – Fall 2017 American Lutherie #130 – Summer 2017 American Lutherie #129 – Spring 2017 American Lutherie #128 – Winter 2016 American Lutherie #127 – Fall 2016 American Lutherie #126 – Summer 2016 Journal
