New Works
http://ellieguitarstwo.blogspot.com/
Where my new work is posted since my web geeks haven't had time to update the web site. |
Musical Instrument Makers' Forum
http://www.mimf.com/
You have lutherie questions? The answer is here. The best resource on the Web -- vast archived resources and a vigorous and numerous community (check out the totally unrelated & unaffiliated Icons of the Forum page to see a few.) Sysop Deb Suran keeps it all civil, helpful, and orderly. |
Homemade Steel
http://www.geocities.com/lapsteel.geo/
My friend Pat Webster, the Resophonic Girl. She builds beautiful and often ingenious guitars and other stringed instruments (like this resolin.) |
New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/news/
Great news source. |
Maricopa Guitar Company
http://www.maricopaguitarco.com/
Mike Dotson, aka "Maricopa Slim" ("Live to slide, slide to live."), builds and plays the slide instruments. (Here's a sneak preview of a recent one.) |
Stewart-MacDonald
http://www.stewmac.com/
Comprehensive guitar builders' supply shop. Some of the products are overpriced, but the excellent service goes a long way. |
The Guitar God
http://www.j-walk.com/music/aboutme.htm
A true genius. |
Stringed Instrument Repair
http://www.stringedinstrumentrepairs.com/
Musical instrument repair shop, run by Amy Hopkins and Jeff Hostetter, two of the sweetest people you'd ever meet. |
Promethean Guitars
http://www.promethean.net/
Tucker Amidon is a guitar builder and college English professor. |
Brad's Page of Steel
http://www.well.com/user/wellvis/steel.html
Excellent reference site for all things lap steel. |
Tin Ceiling
http://www.tinceilingmusic.com/
Local acoustic Americana dust-bowl mournful whipsmart jammin' kind of band... with yours truly on lapsteel, mandolin, guitar, and Sinister Mind Powers. |
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Girlbrand Guitars
http://www.girlbrand.com/
This guy James Larson is my hero (along with Ry Cooder and Xena Warrior Princess, of course.) He makes electric guitars that really damage the envelope. |
Gallery Hardwoods
http://www.galleryhardwoods.com/
Top source for lutherie & fine woodworking woods. |
Nerve.com
http://www.nerve.com/
because you have nerve endings... |
Steel-String Palace
http://www.markswansonmusic.com/
Mark Swanson -- friend, musician, fine luthier, good guy. Helped me build my first acoustic. |
Daily Rotten
http://www.rotten.com/news/
Another, arguably greater, news source. |
Rhinehart Guitars
http://www.fishguitar.com/index2.html
Way cool carved art guitars, whimsical but with teeth. |
Bunnybass
http://www.bunnybass.com/
Sort of demented (in a Hello Kitty way) worship site for bass guitars. Lots of photos of interesting bass guitars, lots of discussion. |
Mark Morford
http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/morford/
SF Gate columnist who goes off on glorious rants. Life-affirming, sex-positive, infused with a dread of our insane government. |
Sean Michael Dargan
http://www.seanmichaeldargan.com/
Singer-songwriter with great songs and great hair. |
Lollar Guitars
http://www.lollarguitars.com/
Jason Lollar builds great guitars, and is an excellent source for pickups (and for supplies, if you like to roll your own like I do.) |
Baltimore Mandolin Orchestra
http://www.mandolincafe.com/cmsa/groups/baltimore.html
What can I say? All that eight-string madness restrained within classical formalism... Seriously fun and very good. |
The Randy Cliffs
http://www.therandycliffs.com/fromtheroad.asp
Hillbilly hootenanny band from Madison, WI. Display a thorough & thoughtful devotion to the concept of Reversible Brain Damage. |
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