Mike Brittain began working wood in 1970. He was a GAL member from 1978 through 1984, building guitars at night while running a cabinet shop and raising a family. After selling the cabinet business in 2000, he happily returned to guitar making and the GAL with a more relaxed feeling of devotion.
▪ bio current as of 2008
2008
AL#95 p.57 read this article
Mike Brittain
▪ Brittain is a Florida luthier obsessed with hunting down the tonewood trees that came to his home state either as infestations or introduced ornamentals. It turns out there’s lots of Indian rosewood growing in Florida, and many trees that have to be removed due to “progress” or storm damage. We can’t let them go to waste, can we Mike? With 5 photos.