2025
AL#156 p.74               
Jay Anderson                                                                                           

▪ As you may recall from AL#151, Jay Anderson is a relatively late-blooming maker whose surprising flattop guitars glory in large, flamboyant slabs of found maple burls and crotches. In this article he travels to the Southwest to interview Don Kendall, the iconoclastic luthier and inventor of the JLD Bridge Doctor. He finds a tight-knit family operation that gets the job done in a low-tech and very direct manner, then takes a side trip to visit his mentor James Olson. Also, pointing to the future, Jay praises the involvement of his own young grandchildren in his lutherie shop.