1999
AL#60 p.19   BRB5 p.417            
Ervin Somogyi                                                                                           

▪ How important is the grain orientation of your braces? Is quartersawn wood really the stiffest? Somogyi ran a small series of tests that suggest that information we all trust and take for granted may be little more than lutherie mythology. With 3 photos and a chart.

This article has been nominated as one of the Guild’s best articles published before 2010.