The Luthier's Workshop
School of Lutherie

Thomas Knatt, Instructor

The Luthier's Workshop explores the possibilities of new woods and designs for guitars, violins, and other string instruments. Thomas Knatt makes unique instruments, repairs difficult breaks, and teaches how to do these things.

Lutherie Links

• The Association of Stringed Instrument Artisans (ASIA) - lutherie resources, supplies and technical information, assistance in marketing and promotion, publication of informative newsletters and journals

• The Bold Strummer Ltd. - leading publisher of unusual books about the guitar and flamenco. Importers of books about Gypsies and music.

• Catgut Acoustical Society - application of scientific principles to the construction of instruments in the violin family

• Guild of American Luthiers - a quarterly magazine entirely devoted to stringed instrument making and repair

• Luthiers Mercantile International (LMI) - complete supplies for the stringed instrument maker

• The Musical Instrument Makers Forum - an interactive forum for the discussion of musical instrument construction, design and repair

• Stewart-MacDonald's Guitar Shop Supply - tools and supplies for building or repairing acoustic, electric and bass guitars, banjos, mandolins, violins, dulcimers and resophonic guitars

• Custom Luthier - Custom Luthier is a one-stop shop for hard-to-find luthier supplies. Custom Luthier offers ready-cut custom inlays and traditional inlays, CAD/CAM, CNC capabilities, Concept development and design, Prototyping, Full service production, Custom templates, Luthier tools, and Instrument components.

• Reith Guitars - premium custom electric headless guitars crafted by hand in the USA. Great sustain and warm tones. Manufacturer of Reith Sonic Block headless tuners and bridges, and reseller of Bartolini pickups, Seymour Duncan pickups, custom inlay Moses Graphite Necks, and D'Addario double ball end strings.

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