Bill Garofalo makes steel rule dies for a living. A steel rule die is the thing with which greeting cards, paper boxes, and jigsaw puzzles are punched out of flat paper stock.
bio current as of 1993
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Letter to the Editor: Still Luthing at Age Ninety
2019
AL#138 p.3
Bill Garofalo
The author has been a GAL member for many years. Lutherie has always been a hobby for him, not a profession. At age ninety, he continues to produce simple and unpretensious instruments with a considerable element of immediacy.
Letter to the Editor: Fifty Years of Lutherie
2018
AL#135 p.3
Bill Garofalo
Good old Bill Garafolo has been a GAL member for a long time. He’s been having fun with lutherie for half a century.
Letter to the Editor: Photos from China
2010
AL#101 p.5 read this article
Bill Garofalo
Visiting a Chinese violin factory and the humble shop of one of its employees.
It Worked for Me: Solidbody Tuning Mechanism
1993
AL#33 p.56 BRB3 p.492
Bill Garofalo
One of a kind solidbody electric tuning mechanism.
‘Way, ‘WAY Down South
1993
AL#33 p.60 BRB3 p.312
Bill Garofalo
An impromptu tour of a guitar factory in Buenos Aires, mainly making solidbody electrics.
It Worked for Me: Soaking Guitar Sides
1992
AL#29 p.56 BRB3 p.480
Bill Garofalo
Soaking guitars sides without resorting to vats and trays, using a piece of 4″ plastic pipe with a capped end, secured vertically to a wall or cabinet.
It Worked for Me: Cutting Frets
1992
AL#29 p.56 BRB3 p.483
Bill Garofalo
A bent metal sheild for cutting fret slots. Use a modified backsaw.