Nine-year Guild member Marc Connelly is an amateur luthier who has built about five guitars a year since 1998 with the help of GAL reference materials and the network of kindred spirits that is the GAL membership. Marc is a thirty-year veteran advertising agency art director, sits on the Board of Directors for the Hydroplane & Raceboat Museum, and is a principal member of the deck crew/restoration crew of the 1982 Atlas Van Lines and the Slo Mo V.
▪ bio current as of 2005
2013
AL#114 p.5
Marc Connelly
▪ Marc Connelly shares a photo of his unusual acoustic lap steel under construction.
2008
AL#93 p.7
Marc Connelly
▪ Marc is making a flattop guitar with a large side port and no hole on the top. He likes it.
2005
AL#82 p.68 BRB7 p.498
Marc Connelly
▪ Making a hex wrench long enough to insert through the end pin hole to bolt on a guitar neck.
2004
AL#77 p.64 read this article
Marc Connelly
▪ The setar is a “long-necked, fretted, 3-or 4-stringed instrument with a gourd-shaped soundbox,” (reviewer’s description). The reviewer loves this book about how to construct the setar, admires it for its detail and concision, and enjoys the fact that it is printed in both English and Persian script (in 2 sections, not both at once).
2003
AL#73 p.5
Marc Connelly
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2002
AL#69 p.62 BRB6 p.461
Marc Connelly
▪ A little goofball finger strap flashlight to illuminate the Dremel bit, and a Trac II razor to shave dried glue off fingertips.