We had a great time at the Alamo City Guitar Bazaar. There were so many great vendors and attendees. Joseph Alvarado and Robot Monster Guitars did an amazing job putting the show together. We are already looking forward to next year.

 – We are getting ready for the Alamo City Guitar Bazaar on Feb 23rd and 24th at the El Tropicano Hotel in downtown San Antonio.  Our booth will host instruments from 9 local builders.   Neil Peterson • Steven Wurgler • Rolando Casias • Mark Piper • Jamie Roadman • Leonardo Bosquez • DC Olson […]

We had a  great demonstration on using and sharpening scrapers by Carl Simpson.  Carl is an amazing violin builder with a long family tradition in woodworking.  He brought out a wide array of scrapers and the tools he uses to maintain them.       

We had a chance to visit Neil Peterson today at his shop in Bandera. He gave us a tour and showed us some of the guitars he is working on.   Neil has recently been harvesting the soundboards from old, unusable upright pianos to use as tops – giving them a second life making music. […]

We had a great time at the San Antonio Area Vintage Guitar and Instrument Show.  We saw many old friend and met many new ones.  Thank you to everyone that came out. ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]

For our June meeting we went up to Austin to take the Collings Guitars factory tour. To say it was impressive would be an understatement. They make incredible instruments and it was an amazing experience to see the craftsmanship and attention to detail that goes into making each one. Thank you to everyone at Collings […]

We had a great meeting at The Cove this month with a discussion about guitar neck construction.  Jamie Roadman talked about compression truss rods and using heat to address neck problems.  Jerame Edwards talked about the affect of string break angle over the nut.  There were a bunch of great questions and input from the […]

We had an amazing visit with Mark Piper maker of Redentore Guitars. He was kind enough to host the San Antonio Luthiers Group at his shop and share knowledge about spray finishing. ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]  

We had a great February meeting with presentation on workshop humidity control and general shop maintenance by Jerame Edwards.  He had great advice for monitoring conditions, things to look out for, and strategies for correcting imbalances.  It is easily overlooked but very critical for the stability of instruments. ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]

We had a great January meeting with an excellent presentation on spirit varnishing violins by Bryan Duckworth of The Duckworth Violin Shop.  Bryan brought examples of the dizzying array of resins and gums used in formulating spirit varnishes and demonstrated the varnishing process.   ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]