Liutaio Mottola Lutherie Information Website
Back when he had what his testy creditors so callously refer to as “a real job,” R.M. Mottola was an engineer. He now spends his time turning expensive wood into heaps of expensive sawdust, out of which emerges the occasional musical instrument.
▪ bio current as of 2002
By the same author:
- Review: The Caldersmith Papers
- Steel String Guitar Nut Slotting Using a Stick-On Template
- Letter: Response to: Seeking plans for Scaled-Down Classical Guitars
- Recent Research: Short Summaries of Recent Scientific Research Articles from Savart Journal
- Drawing the Traditional Acoustic Guitar Pickguard
- Question: Consistent Impulses for Frequency Response Data
- Questions: Coating on Brass Hardware
- Letter to the Editor: Correction to Measuring Scale Length in AL 136
- Resurrection and Modification of an Inexpensive Old Factory Guitar
- Questions: Bradley Signal Generators
- Recent Research: Short Summaries of Recent Scientific Research Articles from Savart Journal
- Questions: Positioning Quarter-Tone Frets
- Measuring Scale Length of Fretted Instruments
- Meet the Maker: Mark French
- Questions: Compensation Angle
- Letter to the Editor: Guitar Compensation Experiment at 2017 Convention
- The “Mysteries” of Panormo
- In Memoriam: Jim Mouradian
- In Memoriam: Peter Kyvelos
- Drawing Acoustic Guitar Body Outlines Using Traditional Techniques
- Questions: Where can I get my wood heat treated or torrified?
- Was the Rule of 18 Good Enough?
- Questions: Flattop Cases
- Aligning the Bolt-on Butt Neck Joint
- Recent Research: Short Summaries of Recent Scientific Research Articles from Savart Journal
- Recent Research: Short Summaries of Recent Scientific Research Articles from Savart Journal
- Questions: Threaded Inserts in #101 Mottola Article
- Product Reviews: Garrett Wade Versatile Vise
- Questions: Guitar Acoustics and Related Topics
- Recent Research: Simple Modeling of Acoustic Guitar Low Frequency Behavior
- Recent Research: A Geometric Approach to Drawing the Classical Guitar Body Outline
- That Fine, Fake-Old Finish
- Reviews: Guitar Making in Nineteenth Century London: Louis Panormo and his Contemporaries by James Westbrook
- Questions: Banjo-Style Guitar Neck
- Reviews: Technology of the Guitar
- Recent Research: Short Summaries of Recent Scientific Research Articles from Savart Journal
- Questions: Gibson Manufacturing Molds
- Meet the Makers: Bruand School Class of 2011
- Questions: Phenolic Resin Fingerboards
- Fretboard, Top Plate Geometry of the Flattop Guitar
- Meet the Maker: R.M. Mottola
- Reviews: Contemporary Acoustic Guitar Design and Build: by Trevor Gore with Gerard Gilet
- Recent Research: Short Summaries of Recent Scientific Research Articles from Savart Journal
- Bridge Mask
- The Binding Frame
- Questions: Acoustic bass
- Letter to the Editor: announcing Savart Journal
- Questions: Everclear
- About Alcohols Used As Solvents In French Polishing
- A Method For the Design Of the Guitar Body Outline Part 3: Compound Radius Curves
- Testing Threaded Inserts
- Parametric Models of Guitar Cutaways
- Questions: String Tension and Pure Tone
- A Method for the Design of the Guitar Body Outline
- Questions: Jig for Oval Rosettes
- Fretboard Slotting with a CNC Router
- Blind Listening Evaluation of Classical Guitar Soundports
- Quick Cuts: Chris Pantazelos’ 7-String Classical Guitar
- Constructing the Middle Eastern Oud with Peter Kyvelos, Part Two
- Questions: Scale Length
- Constructing the Middle Eastern Oud with Peter Kyvelos, Part One
- Questions: Thickness Measuring Tool
- Questions: Radius Gauge
- Sustain and Electric Guitar Neck Joint Type
- Construction of the Colombian Tiple
- Optimizing Playing Surface Geometry
- Questions: Crownless Frets
- Rapid Prototypes of the Flattop Guitar
- Parametric Solid Modeling Software for Stringed Instrument Design
- Questions: 17″ Scale Length String
- Alternative Headstock Decoration and Truss Rod Adjustment Access
- Questions: Guitar Rib Depth
- Rib Depth of Guitars with Spherically Domed Plates
- Questions: Typical Instrument Dimensions
- The Helmholtz Resonance
- The Helmholtz Formula
- Review: Left-Brain Lutherie by David C. Hurd, PhD
- A Savart-Style Upright Bass
- GAL Instrument Plan #50 Savart-Style Upright Bass
- An Enhancement to the Outside Mold
- Desktop CNC Machines
- A Lightweight Electric Bass
- Questions: Fret Shape and Tonality
- Fingerboard Radius Gauges
- Product Review: Colorado Soft Cases
- A Cheapskate’s Sampler
- Questions: Glued Vs Floating Bridge
- Plywood
- Questions: Archtop Bass
- Dot Marker Position Gauges
- Product Reviews: Asturome ES/RV Detail Spray Gun
- Product Reviews: Grizzly Pneumatic drum Sander
- Audio Spectroscopy
- Another Method for Calculating the Area of a Plate
- Letter to the Editor: CAD Software
- A Method for Specifying Contours of an Arched Plate
- Constructing an Under-Saddle Transducer
- Product Reviews: Ameritage Cases
- Questions: Online Lutherie Info
- Review: Music, Cognition, and Computerized Sound; An Introduction to Psychoacoustics edited by Perry R. Cook
- The Bassola
- It Worked for Me: Adding Table Space