After closing down the Michigan shop that he ran for nineteen years, twenty-year Guild member Keith Davis and his family moved on to Hammond, Louisiana where he reopened in mid-July. Then hurricane Katrina hit the area with devastating results. That changed everything.
▪ bio current as of 2005
2005
AL#84 p.57 BRB7 p.509
Keith Davis
▪ The reviewer fairly gushes about the many uses for this drill press sanding tool.
2005
AL#81 p.64 BRB7 p.496
Keith Davis
▪ Removing and replacing bridge plates in dreadnought guitars the K.I.S.S. (keep it simple, stupid) way.
2001
AL#68 p.58 BRB6 p.460
Keith Davis
▪ Make a toothed blade for a block plane by annealing the blade, grinding a set of grooves, and re-tempering the blade. Also describes reducing the mouth with J.B. Weld.
2001
AL#66 p.64 BRB6 p.458
Keith Davis
▪ Making fills in worn fingerboards using fitted wood chips; an ebony fingerboard with ebony fills, a rosewood fingerboard with rosewood fills, etc.
2000
AL#61 p.2
Keith Davis
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1996
AL#48 p.58 read this article
Keith Davis
▪ Helpful hints for shipping a violin.
1991
AL#26 p.47 BRB3 p.477
Keith Davis
▪ Here’s the premise: build a boatload of one-string noisemakers and give them away. Inspire kids to make music. Take a tax break.
1988
AL#15 p.66 read this article
Keith Davis
▪ A natural gas explosion blows up the instruments of an entire school orchestra. Davis comes to the rescue, but wonders what the long-term ramifications will be for the fiddles and bass viols.