Richard Jordan is a guitar maker with an experimental bent. American Lutherie readers know his brother John.
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A Sort-Of-Controlled Bracing Experiment
1988
AL#14 p.59
Richard Jordan
Jordan used spruce of different stiffness to brace three nearly identical classical guitars, and found the differences to be dramatic. His stiffness test was especially easy to run.
Cutting Classic Head Slots
1987
AL#9 p.42 BRB1 p.336
Richard Jordan
Jordan’s article outlines all the steps he uses to shape a classical headstock. He cuts the slots with Dremel router, router base, and fence, and they come out very clean.