DESCRIPTION - Offered is a Magazine Back Issue. The item has been lightly read. See publisher website for details.
Cover photo of a Gibson Monarch Guitar (an elaboration of the J-200) built in the Gibson/Montana custom shop.
Jay Lundell offers tips on how Guitarmaker can better serve its readership.
Each author talks briefly about his luthiery. With 4 photos.
Each author talks briefly about his luthiery. With 6 photos.
AB Acker offers corrections to his fret spacing program from issue 24 and comments on John Ryon's criticisms in issue 25.
A detailed look at the relatively new Custom Shop at Gibson/Montana told in an interview with John Walker, Supervisor. How it started, how it works, why it has succeeded. With 8 photos.
Canadian luthier Threet gives her biography and a shop photo-tour. 18 photos.
Representatives from Martin, Taylor, Gibson, Guild, and Fender discuss wide-ranging topics in guitar manufacturing: supply, inventory, personnel, business culture, tooling, finishing, marketing, schooling, innovation -- everything! 19 pages. With 4 photos.
Verner visits the 1995 National Association of Music Merchants show in Anaheim California.
Carter ultimately describes the "Gibson Guitars: 100 Years of an American Icon" as a must have.
The Luthier's Workshop announces a seven-day intensive steel string kit-building course taught by Thomas Knatt and Alan Carruth in Waltham Mass.
Kitakis gives pointers for good customer relations. With 1 photo.
William Cumpiano and Ivon Schmukler announce the start of One Cottage Street School of Fine Woodworking. Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery announces their 1995-1996 class schedule. William Cumpianl wins a National Endowment for the Arts grant for the "Puerto Rican Quatro Project." The Craft Center in Smithville, Tennessee offers a dulcimer making workshop. ASIA announces Jimmy Bruno to perform at Symposium 95. ASIA notes the passing of Bob Alenko of Nashville.
La Plante shows how to modify a common Sears bit to make a bearing-guided binding bit from. With 1 drawing.
The Cantebury Shaker Village hosts an annual woodworking celebration. In 1995, musical instrument making will be among the featured crafts.
Taylor kicks off a series of columns with a tooling philosophy, sources for ideas, and some details for drilling jigs. With 5 illustrations.
Questioning tradition enough to allow for improvements in guitar making.
Currier discusses adding retail merchandise to your business mix.
Photos of two guitars by John Reuter. One is a double neck 6- and 12-string acoustic. The other if a koa resophonic cutaway.
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