Please welcome first-time author Curt Carpenter, a maker of solidbody guitars and he has been a Guild member for eighteen of the last twenty years.
▪ bio current as of 1992
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Doc and Leo and Me
1994
AL#40 p.8 BRB4 p.90
Curt Carpenter
▪ Carpenter tells of his VA-sponsored apprenticeship to a legend of the electric guitar industry. A fine string of anecdotes. Carpenter actually moved in with Doc Kauffman and his wife, relived all the old stories, learned to build guitars, visited with Leo Fender, met Rudy Dopera, and made pickups. Carpenter left the army to enter the Guitar Wars.
Taking the Guitar Beyond Equal Temperament
1992
AL#30 p.56 BRB3 p.469
Curt Carpenter
▪ The reviewer is disappointed in the chapters about pickup making. The rest of the book is hard to follow and perhaps too deep for beginning luthiers. The book does offer food for thought, but should be used in conjunction with other references.