1986 Bill Monroe at 75 - the man who made bluegrass

Features: Bill Monroe at 75 - the man who made bluegrass; The Holy Grail of Mandolins - Bill Monroe's 1923 Gibson F-5; Monroe's music - 5 super solos; The Delicate craft of inlay; Are you ready for MIDI?; The Unexpected music of Martin Simpson; Simpson transcribed "Garryowen"; more

1986 September Frets Acoustic String Instruments Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1986 Remembering Guitar Legend Clarence White

Features: Remembering Guitar Legend Clarence White; The White Albums -an annotated discography; Clarence White's Musical Legacy; Elegant Inlay - the luthier as artist; National picking champs speak out; Inside MusicFair Frankfurt; more

1986 July Frets Acoustic String Instruments Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1983 Frets Vintage Acoustic String Magazine - Sound Equipment: why you need it, how you use it.

Features: Sound Equipment: why you need it, how you use it; PA Components; Soundspeak -a glossary; Using your system; The First Aid Kit; How far will $500 go?; Sound Equipment sources; Lutherie's Main Man - Ron Pinkham; Bill Harrell; Repair Shop - putting the wreckage of a snapped peghead back together; Workshops: Buying your own PA system; Chet's "Superlick" - the lick that leaves them gasping; Chin Up - handling on the job depression; more

1983 June Frets Acoustic String Instruments Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1985 Hot Mandolin Styles - nine mandolin giants - Bill Monroe, Jesse McReynolds, David Grisman & more

Features: Hot Mandolin Styles - nine mandolin giants - Bill Monroe, Jethro Burns, Bobby Osborne, Andy Statman, Sam Bush, Jesse McReynolds, David Grisman, John Reischman, Doyle Lawson; Leon Redbone "Ain't Misbehavin"; Harp for the new age; Studio Craftsman; Lighting up your act; Readers Poll top acoustic artists; Gallery of the Greats - acoustic music super-achievers; Dulcimers, Lutes, and Air-bag guitars - Guild of American Luthiers annual convention; more

1985 January Frets Acoustic String Instruments Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1985 Frets Special Lutherie Issue: Getting into Lutherie

Where Luthiers go to school; Apprenticeship Today; Luthier, teach thyself; Equipping your shop; Power and the Professional; The Many Faces of Lutherie; Fix it again, Sam; Repair Shop Nightmares; A Livelihood or a losing cause?; The Bottom line on endorsements; How to rate your luthier; Special Luthiers directory; The Boxes that Sing - a look at the magic of the luthier's art through the eyes of player / collector David Lindley; more

1985 September Frets Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1987 Frets: Tony Rice - new dimensions in taste and tone

Cover Story: Tony Rice - new dimensions in taste and tone; Features: Rice Unit Lieutenant Jimmy Gaudreau - matches Tony note for note; Robin Williamson - A Celtic Heritage; Classical Mandolin revisited; Michael Doucet's Bayou Fiddle Recipe; Review: Givens A-6 Mandolin; Lutherie: Truss Rod Basics; Workshops: Chet Atkins - a dreamy melody for fingerstylists; Dan Crary - create you own flatpicking licks; more

1987 September Frets Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1989 Frets: Johnny Cash - The Legend talks guitar

Contents: Hello, I'm Johnny Cash - Guitar wisdom from the man in black; Drastic Classicists - three revolutionary string quartets are shaking up the black tie and tails set; Photo Gallery - Athens, Ohio celebrates American lutherie; Five Petals make a Blue Rose - quintessential players unite for an all-star album - Marcy Marxer, Cathy Fink, Sally Wan Meter, Laurie Lewis, Molly Mason; Fleetwood Mac Fingerstyle Masterpiece - "Never Going Back Again" transcription - an acoustic guitar gem from Lindsay Buckingham; Music: Guitar: Rhythm Licks; "Never Going Back Again", "The Plains of Waterloo; Banjo: "Which Side Are You On?", "The Virginia Boys"; Fiddle: Examples; more

1989 March Frets Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1981 Frets Magazine: Stradivarius - the legend and the legacy

Cover: Artist conception of Antonio Stradivari seated in his workshop in the late 1600s; Contents: Antonio Stradivari - Stradivarius - study on his life and work; History of Cremona; The Voice of the Strad; Detecting a fraud Stradivarius; Frets Visits luthier George Kelischek; Playing live on the air; Taj Mahal - bluesman, folk artist, bandleader; more

1981 August Frets Acoustic String Instruments Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1981 Stephane Grappelli - vibrant spirit of jazz violin

Cover: Stephane Grappelli at the Paul Masson Vineyards; Contents: Stephane Grappelli - vibrant spirit of jazz violin; Stephane Grappelli Music; Frets visits luthier John Monteleone; Odetta - follow her rise as a legendary folk artist; Frank Wakefield - mandolin maverick; Instruments of Japan; Competitive Flatpicking; Autoharp Styles; Frets Repair Shop - how to reproduce a flat-top guitar bridge; more

1981 April Frets Acoustic String Instruments Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1981 Guitar Player - Insights from Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top

Contents: Billy Gibbons - insights from ZZ Top Lone Star blues rocker; Dusty Hill - Rock-solid bassist for ZZ Top; Sam Chatmon - at 82 one of the last of the Delta bluesmen; Kittyhawk - Daniel Bortz & Paul Edwards; The Business of Lutherie - an overview, making a living in the 1980s; Product Specialists - alternative careers for professional guitarists; Vic Juris - on the jazz end of the jazz-rock spectrum; more

1981 February Guitar Player Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

Classic Guitar Construction - Irving Sloane, 1966 First Edition Book

Diagrams, photographs, and step-by-step instructions.

With the complexities of an automated life, too often the serious working at a craft - whether as a livelihood or in one's spare time - is given only superficial coverage. Thus, too often the materials written to guide one in such a craft (if they exist at all) are inadequate.

Irving Sloane has addressed himself to filling such a need in the craft which interests him most: the making of classic guitars. He has been making them for ten years and while writing this book, Mr. Sloane made two guitars. He has written about each step of the process with lucid and thorough prose, and he has illustrated each step with exceptionally clear and professional photographs and drawings.

Besides being the only such book in its field, Classic Guitar Construction is a book by a craftsman, written with sensitivity and careful attention to detail. It is an illuminating discussion of the techniques of making a fine guitar that will inspire the novice guitarmaker and delight all friends of the classic guitar.

Correction: page 45, fifth paragraph, last sentence (specifying thickness to which the face of the head should be planed), 1/2" should be 11/16".

1966 Classic Guitar Construction - Irving Sloane First Edition Book available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1971 Guitar Player Magazine Special Guitar Issue

Contents: Leo Fender - pioneer of the solidbody; Klaus Roder - West German luthier; Pros on Axes -survey; Woods -a dialogue with Richard Schneider and Fred Gerlach; The Martin Factory -take a tour; Guitar Comparison Charts: Acoustic Steel String, Acoustic Nylon String, Acoustic/Electric, Solidbody Electric, 12-String, Steel Guitar, Bass Guitar; more

1971 September Guitar Player Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1973 Pete Drake - Nashville top pedal steel guitarist

Contents: Pete Drake - Nashville top pedal steel guitarist; Pat Martino - a new approach to jazz; Guitar in high school? - getting it into the curriculum; The Frap Pickup - meet its inventor; N.A.M.M. - equipment preview for '74; Frank Beecher - pioneering with Bill Haley; "Guitar Explosion" - guitar concert extraordinaire; Luthier Apprenticeships - want to study guitar building?; more

1973 September Guitar Player Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1972 Dick Betts of the Allman Brothers

Contents: Dick Betts of the Allman Brothers; Hall of Fame - Nashville Tribute; Jack Marshall - Clubs to TV scores; Juan Pimentel - famed Mexican luthier; Buddy Fite - Kind of fed-up; "Alman" - transcription from 16th Century Scottish composer Robert Johnson; Ralph Gleason - the critic on guitarists; more

1972 October Guitar Player Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1974 Larry Coryell - Young Jazz Master

Contents: Larry Coryell - an in-depth interview; Thumbs Carllile - unorthodox isn't the word; J.W. Gallagher - country music luthier; Michael Allsup - of "Three Dog Night"; Barry Olivier - a folk guitar scholar's opinions; more

1974 December Guitar Player Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1986 Al Di Meola - a radical shift

Contents: Al Di Meola -a leading light of hard-edged fusion turns 180 degrees. Includes Soundpage recording and Private Lesson on his picking techniques; Elliot Easton; Robert Cray; Mario Maccaferri - Luthier / Visionary; G.E. Smith; Bassist Jerry Peek; Chris Proctor's Acoustic Elegance -a national fingerpicking champ tells why he chooses tone over speed; more

1986 February Guitar Player Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1962 The Guitar Cult in the Courts of Louis XIV and Charles II

Cover: 18th Century French Engraving Interior of a Luthier's Atelier by George Giusti

Contents: Articles: The Guitar Cult in the Courts of Louis XIV and Charles II; A Note on Francesco Corbetta and his tablature; In Search of Sor; Catalogue of Fernando Sor Compositions; The Guitar on discs; Published Music for the guitar; Music: Tombeau de Mr. Franciscque Corbette - Robert de Visee, transcribed by Richard Keith; Prelude, Allemande and Gigue from "La Guitarre Royalle" by Francesco Corbetta, transcribed by Deric Kennard; more

1962 June Guitar Review #26 Classical Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1965 The Guitar Maker and his techniques

Contents: Articles: The Guitar Maker and his techniques; A brief discussion of the construction and assembly of guitars by Non-Spanish Luthiers; more

1965 May Guitar Review #28 Classical Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com





Left: Guitar by Carlo Guadagnini, 1812, Turin, Italy; Right: Guitar by Johann George Staufer, 1830, Vienna

1986 Billy Sheehan - Best Rock Bass

Contents: Billy Sheehan, this year's Best Rock Bassist, now with David Lee Roth, talks about his groundbreaking style; Pro's Reply - Steve Morse; Jamie West-Oram of The Fixx; Guadalcanal Diary; Segovia Master Class '86; Big Guitars from Austin; Christmas Soundpage Record - jazz variations on "O Little Town of Bethlehem" for 6 & 7 string guitar, includes solo transcriptions and chord-melody tips; Robert Lee's Elegant Marquetry -a look at a California luthier's visions in wood; Nashville's Marty Stuart; more

1986 December Guitar Player Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1986 Jimmie Vaughan of The Fabulous Thunderbirds

After 12 years on the road, the Texas blues-rockers have hit the airwaves with a vengeance. The story of their leader/guitarslinger includes his list of guitar idols. Plus an exclusive Soundpage recording teaming Jimmie with Duke Robillard.

Contents: Jimmie Vaughan of The Fabulous Thunderbirds; Free Soundpage recording teaming Jimmie Vaughan with Duke Robillard - "Cookin"; Zeno Roth's Debut; Glenn Branca, Composer Extraordinaire; On Bass - T-Bone Wolk; Russ Barenberg; Pete Anderson; Peter Sprague - Bebop visionary; J.W. Jones, Luthier; more

1986 July Guitar Player Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com