Bryan Galloup has racked up thirteen years of GAL membership across the last quarter century. He began his career with Dan Erlewine in the early ’80, and he has since become one of the country’s premier repair and restoration specialists as well as a builder of flattop guitars. He also operates the Galloup School of Guitar Building and Repair.
▪ bio current as of 2015
2015
AL#124 p.26
Mark Swanson Bryan Galloup
▪ Bryan Galloup was raised in a family of machinists, hot-rod makers, and self-sufficent can-do types. As a teenager he had the good fortune to be mentored by guitar repair guru Dan Erlewine, and he eventually took over Dan’s shop.Today Bryan builds and repairs guitars while also running an active lutherie school.
1994
AL#40 p.42 BRB4 p.116
Bryan Galloup
▪ Detailed captions for 36 photos explain how to cook the neck out of a flattop and put it back on the way it ought to be.
This article has been nominated as one of the Guild’s best articles published before 2010.
1994
AL#39 p.10 BRB4 p.52
Bryan Galloup
▪ Here’s the whole story, with some tools for heat removal of the parts not seen in the magazine before. Pull those worn parts and make your own replacements. With 38 photos.
This article has been nominated as one of the Guild’s best articles published before 2010.