Aaron Cash is a five-year Guild member building acoustic guitars when he isnt teaching 6th graders the joy of reading. Still a kid at heart, he can be found playing a game of pinball in his workshop while the glue is drying. Aaron practices what he teaches his students: Your best is good enough.
2024
2024
AL#153 p.70
Aaron Cash
▪ Heres how to mess up a perfectly good set of tuners without messing them up. Its funny, but this process of distressing part of a new instrument to fit a certain received aesthetic is pretty much what fiddle makers have been doing for a couple centuries and getting paid handsomely for it. I guess were on the right track now.
2022
AL#146 p.62
Aaron Cash
▪ Lutherie is way cool. The guitars that people are making these days are mind-blowing. Standards of craftsmanship and creativity are sky high. And all that can be daunting to a sincere wanna-be. Here’s how to talk yourself into not talking yourself out of it.
2021
AL#143 p.69
Aaron Cash
▪ Off-brand hand planes with the iron and cap missing are rightfully cheap in junk stores. They can be affixed with carpet tape onto things like radiused sanding beams to give you a better grip.