[Seattle Luthiers Group Notice] Julius Borges @ Seattle Luthiers' 11/8 Meeting & 11/11 Workshop!

[Robert Lane]

Hello fellow luthiers!

This is a double announcement for both the Tuesday
meeting 11/8 and and the workshop for Friday 11/11. 

Tuesday Meeting (plus light social beforehand)
Who:  Julius Borges
When:  11/8 7:00 pm
Where:  Michael Gurian's shop located in Ballard. 
Directions and phone # at bottom of email.
Topic:  Production shop jigs and tooling;  Powerpoint
presentation!

Our guest this week will be Julius Borges from
Littleton, Mass. On 
Tuesday, he will be showing a presentation of his shop
and explaining his tools and jigs. This should be
quite informative, as he is very geared up for
production and has many interesting tools to talk
about.

Help needed:  Julius' presentation will require
projection from his computer (Mac) or utilizing
someone else's.  Can anyone supply projection
equipment/screen for this meeting?  Contact Cat @
783-7317 or Robb @ 723-8454 if you can help.


Workshop announcement

On Friday 11/11 Julius Borges will give a hot hide
glue workshop at the shop of Dave Krause..

Workshop location:
1543 NW 49th St,  Seattle 
South side of street. Grey house, J Dotsen Photography
sign in front, shop in back behind house.

start at 6 pm and will run till 8 or perhaps 9 pm.
light refreshments will be available, you may bring
additional items if you wish. 

Fee if any TBD  ( I will send out a separate notice
clarifying this, expect modest fee)

More on Julius Borges and workshop courtesy from Cat:

Julius Borges has focused his guitarmaking efforts on
replicating the instruments of the late 1920's and
early 1930's. He has gone so far 
as to reproduce the grafted headstock joint used on
Martin Guitars until 1916. (Julius, just last week,
went to meet with the R&D dept. at Martin as a
consultant to help them reproduce this headstock
joint!) His guitars are constructed with red spruce
braces, hot hide glue and hand fit dovetails for the
neck to body joint. 

He recommends hot hide glue for a number of reasons,
which he will be explaining at the Friday workshop. He
will be demonstrating his techniques for glueing on a
bridge and a neck with hide glue.
Borges draws on his varied background; musician,
guitar 
repairman,furniture restorer and cabinetmaker
(including his journeyman's certification in
architectural millwork) to offer guitarists a truly
traditional instrument.

Directions to Michael Gurian's shop for Tuesday
meeting:

  Michael's barge is located just east of the Ballard
locks.  Access is thru shipyard gate about 100 yards
east of the parking lot for the locks.  Turn left
after entering shipyard gate and proceed straight back
towards something that looks like a floating building!
 If lost call Michael at 206-467-7990. 

As always guests and guitars and other stringed
instruments welcome!

See you there;

Robb




	
		
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