Twenty-year GAL member Dale Randall is a retired Michigan Conservation Officer (fish fuzz, possum police, duck dick…) who has been married to Marge for forty-eight years. He tries not to let luthing interfere with a few bluegrass festivals and three months in Florida each winter.
▪ bio current as of 2005
2007
AL#92 p.7 read this article
Dale Randall
▪ Randall offers contrasting thoughts to Paul Hill’s article on bow hairing in AL#91.
2004
AL#80 p.65 BRB7 p.496
Dale Randall
▪ With this arrangement, fresh glue can be injected straight from the bottle through plastic tubing which terminates in a brass ink holder from a ballpoint pen which serves as an injection needle.
1998
AL#54 p.51 BRB5 p.496
Dale Randall
▪ Using a 1CC syringe and loading it from the bottle as a nonclogging applicator for superglue.
1995
AL#41 p.58 BRB4 p.489
Dale Randall
▪ This tool with a curved blade allows for gentle planing inside the radius of a brace.
1992
AL#31 p.57 BRB3 p.487
Dale Randall
▪ Problems with burned out speed controls and bearings in the Dremel Moto-Tool.
1991
AL#25 p.55 BRB3 p.477
Dale Randall
▪ A fret crowning file that cannot possibly scratch the fretboard.
1991
AL#26 p.13 BRB3 p.480
Dale Randall
▪ Go fishing for your soundposts. Land them perfectly. This is a soundpost setter unlike any other. Really.
1991
AL#26 p.25 BRB3 p.478
Dale Randall
▪ Randall explains how to make it, but not what it’s for.
1989
AL#20 p.20 BRB2 p.318
Dale Randall
▪ Randall lines the entire guitar back with plexiglas mirrors while working inside the body. Looks like a fine idea.
1989
AL#18 p.11
Dale Randall
▪ Randall built a foot-operated mini-jack for regluing braces inside an instrument.
1987
AL#9 p.49 BRB1 p.342
Dale Randall
▪ Randall finds an inventive way to fix a bass that’s been dropped on its top, but the repair leaves a 1/4″ hole through the top that must be plugged and disguised.