Long-time member Don Musser is a logger, a luthier, a wood dealer, and an author.
▪ bio current as of 1999
Long-time member Don Musser is a logger, a luthier, a wood dealer, and an author.
▪ bio current as of 1999
1999
AL#57 p.48 BRB5 p.322
Don Musser
▪ Musser supplies wood to the trade, and his notions about grain runout may surprise you. Wood from split billets doesn’t guarantee a minimum of runout unless the billet itself has absolutely no runout. Does it matter? Musser thinks so. With 4 photos.
1997
AL#51 p.24 BRB5 p.84
Don Musser
▪ Musser offers a peek at varieties of top wood you may never have considered, and finds them promising. The varieties are white fir, sub-alpine fir, Colorado blue spruce, and one that may be a hybrid. Includes four photos of sectioned logs.
1992
AL#31 p.57 BRB3 p.487
Don Musser
▪ Locating hairline cracks using the solvent naphtha.
1992
AL#30 p.46 BRB3 p.210 read this article
Don Musser
▪ Musser tries to get the guitar to play in tune with itself by laying out the frets for just intonation, rather than equal temperament. Interchangeable fretboards allow the changing of keys and tunings. Pretty interesting, and the new fret pattern looks very bewildering and cool. Based on the work of Mark Rankin.
1987
AL#10 p.35 BRB1 p.397
Don Musser
▪ Improve the hold of superglue by adjusting the pH factor of the wood. Also, how to find and heal hairline guitar cracks before lacquering.
This article has been nominated as one of the Guild’s best articles published before 2010.
1985
AL#2 p.45 BRB1 p.135 read this article
Don Musser
▪ Musser describes two Amazon woods with properties similar to Dalbergia nigra.
1981
DS#172 LW p.100 read this article
Don Musser
▪ Get rid of those scalloped braces and the bulge in the top of the guitar in one operation. Musser’s design is asymmetrical and pretty radical from a “vintage” view point, but a number of luthiers have confessed that it has improved their guitars.
1978
DS#95 LW p.90
Don Musser
▪ Some wood ripples when it is wetted for bending. Musser describes how to remove the ripples, but you’ll have to have a metal bending form to use his method. With 2 photos.