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Big Red Book of American Lutherie Volume 4

Big Red Book of American Lutherie Volume 4
Guild of American Luthiers

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SKU AM4179
Author Various
Format Book
Notation Text
Publisher Guild of American Luthiers
 
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This new volume contains about ninety articles from American Lutherie issues #37-48, published 1994 through 1996. Packed full of information based on the firsthand experience of over fifty luthiers, highlights of this volume include: D'Aquisto archtop guitar construction; Erlewine on vintage Fender finishing; Galloup resets a guitar neck; hammered dulcimer making; Manzanero's antique guitar collection; Ruck on tailoring classic guitar sound; Rabut's innovative violin design; nitrocellulouse lacquer finishing; flattop guitar manufacturers' forum; neopolitan mandolin; lattice bracing; classic guitar intonation; flattop guitar brace shaving; and meet makers Nick Kukich, Eric Meyer, Henry Strobel, Leo Fender and Doc Kaufman, Jim Williams, Jess Wells, Manuel Velazquez, Michael Gurian, Sol Koll, Don Overstreet, Geoff Stelling, Marc Silber, John Mello, and more. Plus product reviews, a ton of book reviews, dozens of short how-to pieces, and Michael Darnton's Violin Q&A column. Each volume in The Big Red Book of American Lutherie series is a quality hard cover book of over 500 pages with sewn binding, gold stamped with the GAL logo. These are books that are built to last, built to be used, and built to lie open on your workbench. The Big Red Book of American Lutherie Volume Four will be a indespensible part of your lutherie reference library for years to come.

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