Twenty-four-year GAL member Stephen Marchione spent his earliest years in Texas, then Italy, then Texas again. He went to New York City to make it as a guitarist, but ended up becoming a luthier. Now he’s back in Texas and at the top of his game.
▪ bio current as of 2014
2020
AL#140 p.2
Stephen Marchione
▪ The braces in an archtop guitar are very similar to the bars in fiddles, and Marchione fits them with the same traditional techniques. The mating surface of the brace is roughed out with a chisel, then refined with a small plane, and perfected with files and scrapers. Chalk shows the whole truth of the fit. Believe the chalk.
2016
AL#127 p.4
Charles Rufino Stephen Marchione
▪ A guitar maker and a violin maker team up for a show-and-tell focusing on hide glue, sizing, linen reinforcement, hand-cut dovetail joints, and getting the best out of a spruce top wedge. From their 2014 GAL convention workshop.
2014
AL#119 p.6
Stephen Marchione
▪ Marchione offers a semihollow model that is a response to his professional touring clients’ desire for a smaller, tougher guitar with all the fine quality and detail of a full archtop. He steps us through his building process, which gets a little help from a CNC machine. From his 2011 GAL convention workshop.
2014
AL#117 p.68
Stephen Marchione
▪ Applying finish by padding rather than brushing, as taught to Stephen Marchione by Guy Rabut.
2013
AL#115 p.6
Stephen Marchione
▪ Stephen Marchione takes us on a voyage through Lutherie history with an emphasis on the Italian experience and heritage. From his 2011 GAL convention lecture.
2013
AL#114 p.14
James Condino Stephen Marchione
▪ Stephen Marchione on his career in building solidbody electrics, acoustic guitars, mandolins, and violins.
1995
AL#41 p.50 BRB4 p.22
Stephen Marchione
▪ A good article on the subject can be found in the Dec 1989 issue of Better Homes and Gardens.