Article in American Lutherie No. 144

For the past year, I have been working on an article where I describe my GammelGura, the ribs, the stable plate in spruce, plugs, segmented stable legs and the oversaddle intonation. It all resulted in a lot of pictures and enough text to fill 17 pages in the next issue of American Lutheran. Not only that, my special tool for measuring…

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GG185; European parlor, ca 1910

The second to finish in the batch is an unusually cool and curvy European parlor. It is a little nicer than usual with beautiful mother-of-pearl inlays around the sound hole and a wooden binding around the bottom. Behind the dark and worn spirit varnish is also a beautiful tiger striped maple at the bottom and side. Original fretboard was thin and flat, but…

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