Peter Coombe Luthier – maker of fine hand made mandolins, mandolas, octave mandolins, tenor guitars, and steel string and classical guitars Source: Peter Coombe Mandolins and Guitars Hand made mandolins, mandolas and guitars, made in Bega NSW, Australia. There are some really handy sequences of photos describing his processes for building mandolins (NOTE: his specialty …
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Olivia Pelling – Fine Strings
A Luthier Fine Strings is celebrating its 10th year of business in Ottawa. Olivia’s stepfather, Seigfried Wagner, was a… Source: Olivia Pelling – Fine Strings
: Guitar Bracing – Designing Balance
Source: : Guitar Bracing – Designing Balance
Luthier on Luthier: Jordan McConnell – Fretboard Journal
Jordan McConnell (McConnell Guitars) is one of those rare luthiers who is also a professional musician (Jordan spent 10 years touring with The Duhks). On today’s podcast, he tells us how he manages to successfully navigate both careers at the same time and about his current musical projects and guitars. Jordan has had quite the …
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Michael Greenfield shows how he makes sure that the sides have no bumps or waves in them. Hint: it’s a piece of spring steel with 80 grit on one side and 120 grit on the other. He uses .020″ spring steel for the larger curves, and .008″ spring steel for the waist curves.
Podcast 229: Mark Stutman of Folkway Music – Fretboard Journal
This week, we’re joined by Folkway Music founder Mark Stutman. Over the years, Stutman has earned accolades from guitar collectors around the world as one of the finest repairmen around, especially when it comes to vintage Gibson acoustic guitars from the ’30s and ’40s. But he didn’t start out wanting to fix 70 year old guitars: …
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Paul Hostetter, luthier – bowed and fretted instruments – welcome to my home page
Source: Paul Hostetter, luthier – bowed and fretted instruments – welcome to my home page Paul Hostetter, luthier – bowed and fretted instruments – welcome to my home page As quirky as it is, it is actually a treasure trove for amateur luthiers. The late Paul Hostetter [1945 – 2019] was a legend in his …
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Acoustic Concepts
Daniel Brauchli describes his concepts around the use of carbon-fibre bracing (he calls it “full-phase”) and the theory that supports it. There is also a fair bit of info on the use of fluorocarbon strings. He is of Swiss extraction, grew up in Alaska, then moved to Australia when he was 13 Source: Acoustic Concepts