James Blilie

Barbarossa Guitars

Twenty-one-year GAL member James Blilie builds steel string and classical guitars, plus a few violins, resonator guitars, ukuleles, and Weissenborn-style lap steel guitars. He enjoys playing fingerstyle guitar and playing/singing folk and rock music. He has been a structural/mechanical engineer for over thirty-one years, working for Boeing, the FAA, Northwest Airlines, and Boston Scientific Corporation. He also enjoys muscle-powered fun in the outdoors with his family, and good food, wine, and beer.

▪ bio current as of 2018

By the same author:
  1. Questions: Glue Joint Clamping Pressure
  2. More Stiffness and Density Data for Lutherie Woods
  3. It Worked for Me: Wood Accent Ring for Rosette
  4. More Glue Strength Testing Data
  5. It Worked for Me: Fretboard Radiusing Jig
  6. A Large New Set of Stiffness Data for Lutherie Woods and a Proposed Standard Test Method
  7. Proposed Standard Glue Strength Testing Method
  8. Letter to the Editor: Leonardo Guitar Research Project
  9. Wood Stiffness: An Analysis of a Substantial Sample of Woods of Interest to Guitar Makers
  10. Letter to the Editor: Robert Simons letter on soundport listening test
  11. Letter to the Editor: Typo in AL#100 in his article
  12. The Guitar as a Structure and Some Practical Information on Bracing
  13. Letter to the Editor: Circles in Classical Violin Design