Seventeen-year GAL member Ted Megas combined his backgrounds as a guitar player and a furniture maker by becoming a guitar maker. He chose to specialize in archtop because it was the guitar that he enjoyed most and that offered the greatest challenge.
▪ bio current as of 2010
2010
AL#101 p.38
Jonathon Peterson Ted Megas
▪ Ted Megas makes gorgeous archtops, but lutherie wasn’t his first career choice. He also has a hankering for large machines.
2010
AL#101 p.43
Ted Megas
▪ Megas walks us through his process of mother-of-pearl nut construction for 7-strings.
2010
AL#101 p.64 ALA2 p.47
Ted Megas
▪ A front sole extension for a Stanley block plane.
2009
AL#98 p.6
Steve Grimes Ted Megas Tom Ribbecke Jeffrey R. Elliott
▪ This article is taken from a 2008 GAL convention panel discussion. Seems like these discussions are getting livelier and more interesting, no matter what field of lutherie may draw you the most. The interaction makes the archtop guitar seem more vital and the personal disclosures add depth to the subject. Not that we’re talking about life and death. Well, to the panelists it may be more important than that, and we’ll bet you’ll be drawn in. Perhaps changes are in the air. Nylon strings? Chambered bodies? Oh, they won’t threaten the old jazz box too much, but it’s good to know that nothing remains forever unchanged. With 23 photos.
2003
AL#73 p.65 BRB7 p.27 read this article
Ted Megas
▪ Thin, small cracks on the ebony tailpiece of a new custom made archtop.