Sixteen-year GAL member Kathy Wingert did her time in boot camp and around-the-clock lutherie. Sixty-three issues of American Lutherie in her mailbox haven’t shown the error of her ways, so she continues to do what she does in her small southern-California shop.
▪ bio current as of 2012
2012
AL#112 p.48
Kathy Wingert
▪ Kathy Wingert constructs harp guitar inlays inspired by Modernist designs by the Scots couple of architect Charles Mackintosh and designer Margaret Mackintosh.
2011
AL#106 p.26 ALA5 p.88
Kathy Wingert Monica Esparza
▪ Monica Esparza entered lutherie later in life than most, and now divides her time building with her job as co-owner and operator of a soft drink company.
2010
AL#102 p.38 ALA6 p.88
Kathy Wingert Gregg Miner
▪ Gregg Miner is dedicated to collecting instruments and restoring them to playing condition and through his research has acquired a wide network of historians, repairmen, and luthiers.
2008
AL#96 p.18 ALA1 p.60
Cyndy Burton Kathy Wingert
▪ Wingert has as extensive a lutherie background as anyone, and even does Chladni glitter tests on her guitars (which, by the way, look exquisite). Her daughter Jimmi has a growing reputation as an inlay artist. How rare is a mother/daughter team in lutherie? Mentions Bob Mattingly, Larry Robinson and Harvey Leach. With 12 photos.