When not making guitars and museum-quality jigs, twenty-year GAL member Géza Burghardt and his wife Tini like to canoe the wild Canadian waters. Géza used to build canoes back in Hungary.
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Constructing a Double Bass Part 2- Inspired by a 1760 Giovanni Baptiste Gabrielli
2011
AL#107 p.22
Geza Burghardt
▪ Exhaustive pictorial building of a double bass. From 2004 and 2006 GAL convention workshops.
GAL Instrument Plan #64: Double Bass Inspired By a 1760 G.B. Gabrielli
2011
AL#107 p.36
Geza Burghardt
▪ A full-scale instrument plan. See the GAL website for a low-rez preview.
Constructing a Double Bass Inspired by a 1760 Giovanni Baptiste Gabrielli
2011
AL#106 p.16
Geza Burghardt
▪ Burghardt shares his experience of fulfilling his dream of constructing a double bass. From his 2004 and 2006 GAL convention workshop.
Geza’s Precision Assembly Jig
2003
AL#75 p.6 BRB7 p.86
Geza Burghardt Cyndy Burton
▪ Geza Burghhardt builds classical guitars on a workboard rather than a mold, but it isn’t just any old workboard. Its carefully jigged up for accuracy and guitar-to-guitar consistency and his jigs are nearly as pretty as his guitars. Well, to another luthier, anyhow. With 17 photos.
Meet the Maker: Geza Burghardt
2000
AL#61 p.4 BRB6 p.2
Cyndy Burton Geza Burghardt
▪ Burghardt and his family emigrated to Canada from Hungary in 1988 with few worldly goods and little English and proceeded to carve out a niche in a fashion we have grown accustomed to hearing about in these pages. He seems to prefer classical guitars and hand tools. Included is an 8-picture description of the jig he uses to slot the sides into the necks of his guitars, and 7 other photos.
This article has been nominated as one of the Guild’s best articles published before 2010.