Mike Doolin

Mike Doolin

After sixteen years of full-time guitar making, thirty-one-year Guild member Mike Doolin retired from professional lutherie to play music full time. This doesn’t mean he has quit building guitars, it just means that now he gets to keep them all.

▪ bio current as of 2023

By the same author:
  1. It Worked for Me: Nut Filing Guide
  2. Ken Parker’s Uncut Personal Take on the Genesis of the American Archtop Guitar as told to Mike Doolin
  3. Making Solid Linings for Guitars
  4. Meet the Maker: Ken Parker
  5. Review: Acquired of the Angels: The Lives and Works of Master Guitar Makers John D’Angelico and James L. D’Aquisto by Paul Schmidt, third edition
  6. Review: The Master’s Bench by Paul Schmidt and Arian Sheets
  7. Review: 34 Iconic Guitars in Life Size
  8. Questions: Floating Fretboard Extension
  9. Questions: Pinless Bridges
  10. Molding Plastic Humbucking Mounting Rings
  11. A Summary of John Greven’s Voicing Method
  12. Product Reviews: MaG-ic Probe
  13. A Springless Magnetic Thickness Gauge
  14. Meet the Maker: Mike Doolin
  15. Anodizing Aluminum
  16. It Worked for Me: Kerfed Linings
  17. Harp Guitars: Past, Present, and Future
  18. Intonation in the Real World
  19. Herr Helmholtz’ Tube
  20. Modern Approaches to Adjustable Neck Joints
  21. Letter to the Editor: Catalyzed Polyester Finish
  22. Amplifying Acoustic Guitars Update
  23. Meet the Maker: John Greven
  24. Cutting a Fanned-Fret Fingerboard
  25. Calculating Guitar Side Height
  26. Dedicated Binding and Purfling Routers
  27. Questions: Gibson Firebird Plan
  28. Get Bent! A Versatile Shopmade Side Bender
  29. Motorized Dish Sander
  30. Waterborne Solutions
  31. Pantograph Neck Shaft Duplicator
  32. Questions: String Compensation
  33. Heed Herr Helmholtz (or How I Built My First Guitar Twice)