Nicholas Von Robison

Read Nicholas Von Robison’s memoriam

Twenty-two year member Nicholas Von Robison is a convention workshop presenter, former staffer, frequent contributor, and special projects guy for the GAL. We generally send anything pertaining to wood that crosses our desks to him for comment and review. After a 10 year hiatus, he’s building again, slow but sure after being out of the hands-on, new world of lutherie for so long. Nick passed away in 2000, read his memoriam.

▪ bio current as of 1999

By the same author:
  1. Review: Acoustics of Wood by Voichita Buchur
  2. Review: Wood: The Best of Fine Woodworking
  3. Wood Identification for Luthiers
  4. Taxonomy and Nomenclature
  5. Glossary of Basic Wood Terms update
  6. Top 40 Wood List
  7. Wood Bibliography
  8. Questions: Lutherie Internet Uses
  9. Ebony and African Blackwood: Rare Gifts of Nature
  10. Meet the Maker: Debbie Suran
  11. GAL Instrument Plan #39: Hammered Dulcimer
  12. Meet the Maker: Lara Espley
  13. Review: A Guide to Useful Woods of the World
  14. Meet the Maker: John Koster
  15. Floyd
  16. Jatoba
  17. Meet the Maker: Tom Ribbecke
  18. Alternative Lutherie Woods List
  19. CITES Tree List
  20. It Worked for Me: Fly-Tiers Vise
  21. Letter to the Editor: Acid Rain
  22. A Primer on Botanical Pronunciation
  23. Whence Tree Names?
  24. Review: Identifying Wood: Accurate Results with Simple Tools by Bruce Hoadley
  25. Review: The Encyclopedia of Wood
  26. Review: Wood Handbook by Forest Products Laboratory
  27. Review: Wood in Australia by Bootle
  28. Review: Understanding Wood by Hoadley
  29. Review: Elseviers Wood Dictionary, Vol. I by Beekman
  30. Review: Checklist of United States Trees by Little
  31. Review: Imported Wood Purchasing Guide by Int. Wood Trade Pub.
  32. Review: Tropical Timbers of the World by Chudnoff
  33. Review: What Wood is That? by Edlin
  34. Review: Whittling and Woodcarving by Tangerman
  35. Review: Eisenbrand Inc. by Exotic Hardwoods
  36. Opinion
  37. World Forest Outlook
  38. Diary of a Shop Accident
  39. The Sami-Sen
  40. GAL Instrument Plan #16: The Sami-Sen
  41. Embarrassing Moments in Lutherie
  42. Modified F3 Mandolin
  43. GAL Instrument Plan #15: Modified F3 Mandolin
  44. Ed Arnold, String Tie Kind of Guy
  45. Acid Rain Update
  46. Acid Rain
  47. Hammered Dulcimer Partials
  48. In Defense of the Amateur
  49. The Case for Using Natural Dyes
  50. The Violin Pick
  51. Glorious Uncertainty
  52. Twenty Ancient Dyestuffs and Eleven Mordants
  53. Crooked Knives
  54. Blood, Sweat and Sap
  55. GAL Instrument Plan #1: Standard Model Autoharp
  56. Seedlac
  57. Gold Leaf