Six-year GAL member Dan Fobert is a self-taught luthier who has been building traditional and nontraditional instruments since 1995. He enjoys traveling, camping, cooking, and winery hunting and has been spotted at BBQ cookoffs.
bio current as of 2008
2008
AL#95 p.55
Daniel Fobert
You can make your own plastic pickup rings. No kiddin’! And it doesn’t seem like a real big deal. A little thought should uncover many other uses for the materials mentioned here. With 4 photos.
2008
AL#94 p.67
Daniel Fobert
An illustrated method for assembling custom hitch pins without a lot of machining, for construction of a spruce top banjo on a bouzouki platform.
2008
AL#95 p.50
Andy Avera Daniel Fobert
Fobert is a Texas builder of archtop guitars who is unusually obsessed with making as many of the parts for his guitar as possible, not including (yet!) the tuners. There are luthiers who worship old guitars and work to reproduce them, and luthiers who can’t be bothered with something that’s already been done. Fobert is one of the latter. With 6 photos.
2007
AL#90 p.68 read this article
Daniel Fobert
An automated, motorized fretwire radius roller; an exercise in elementary machining skills.
2006
AL#87 p.52 ALA2 p.8
Daniel Fobert
The author’s special workboard and clamps permit him to clamp a plate onto the rib assembly in a minute or less. With 6 photos.