I have just discovered an article published in the Windsor Magazine Vol. XVII in 1903 about a mandolin workshop in the UK. The author describes the steps used for making a mandolin in the workshop of J. G. Winder. Winder had started the making of mandolins in the UK. He is also known as a […]
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This is a great video about the construction of a classical guitar: Classical guitar making. My 24th guitar build Highlights from making my classical guitar featuring the builder playing the finished instrument. www.booneguitars.com The back and sides of this guitar are Indian rosewood. The top is western red cedar. The neck is Spanish cedar. Fret
I have just bought a new mandolin, a used Weber Yellowstone mandolin. This mandolin sounds great and I cannot stop playing it. This is a album with some pictures of this instrument: http://www.mandoisland.de/album_weber_yellowstone Bruce Weber was one of the master luthiers at the former Flatiron site after Gibson had bought Flatiron. Gibson built mandolins in
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I have just written about the guitar construction movies by Tiyoto Kanaka which show the construction of a guitar in many detailed steps. Some time ago I have found the following video which shows the construction of a classical guitar using time laps in little more than 5 minutes. The guitar was built within 10
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I have discovered the facebook profile of Kiyoto Tanaka, a Japanese luthier who builds romantic guitars and other instruments. Kiyoto Tanaka has documented the construction of his guitars in very detailed videos. It looks like magic how he uses his Japanese woodworking tools to take some wood and make a beautiful guitar out of it.
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Martin Seeliger has started to build steelstring guitars in Germany in the earl 1980s. Today his brand Lakewood Guitars is known as a source for great guitars for fingerpickers, and many great artists are playing Lakewood guitars. On the website of the German guitar magazine Akustik Gitarre you can find a very interesting video with
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I have just found an article on LaGuitare.com with the presentation of a mandolin built by luthier Hervé Coufleau. This mandolin is highly decorated with mother of pearl inlays – a very special and beautiful instrument. The mandolin is is also shown on the myspace page of Hervé Coufleau: More picures and an article about
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This week I have a beautiful guitar on my Alfred’s Guitar Calender, so I thought I should find out more about this guitar and its maker. Is a Helliver F guitar, built in a small workshop in Münster in Germany. Only about 25 guitars are built every year. A slideshow of many guitars built by
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Jupiter Creek Music was an Australian company that produced electric mandolins and ukuleles. In 2012 Rob Dick who owned the company passed away. On the homepage of Jupiter Creek Music you could find a lot of information about the building of electric mandolins and ukuleles. A virtual workshop tour showed, how electric mandolins and other instruments
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Joe Brent and Brian Dean have developed a new mandolin, the Grand Concert. The first videos played with this mandolin are available at youtube, and I think that there will be some discussion about this new type of a mandolin. Brian Dean has made a video with pictures from the construction of this mandolin, with
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