Elon Howe is a building contractor, a violin and mandolin builder, a sawyer, a frequent Guild convention exhibitor, and a founding member of the Michigan Violinmakers Association.
▪ bio current as of 1994
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Two-Part Inside Violin Mold
1994
AL#39 p.28 BRB4 p.80
Elon Howe
▪ A nontraditional mold deep enough to keep the ribs square to the top and back plates.
Cutting Michigan Maple
1994
AL#37 p.40 read this article
Elon Howe
▪ Another luthier turns woodcutter using a Wood Mizer portable bandsaw, and maple isn’t the half of it. With 4 photos and a diagram for sawing logs into “bastard cut” mandolin wood.
Questions: Cherry As Tonewood
1990
AL#23 p.60 BRB2 p.484
Elon Howe Harold Turner
▪ Some good uses of Cherry wood, or poor man’s mahogany.