Twelve-year GAL member Ken Altman began his lutherie career in 1975, working in a violin shop in Berkeley, California. He began making bows in 1993, and has been a full time bow maker for eighteen years.
▪ bio current as of 2015
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Meet the Maker: Ken Altman
2015
AL#123 p.40
January Williams Ken Altman
▪ Ken Altman is a bow maker living in Silverton Oregon, and is part of the group that produces the Northwest Handmade Musical Instrument Show.
Questions: Horsetail Hair
2014
AL#119 p.68
Ken Altman
▪ Creating a violin bow using Arabian mare black horsetail hair.
Reviews: Violin Rehairing with Roger Foster, by Ronald Louis Fernandez
2009
AL#100 p.67 read this article
Ken Altman
▪ Violin Repairing With Roger Foster, a 53 minute DVD, shows how a professional violin and bowmaker rehairs a bow in his shop, with comments and explanations along the way.
Making a Brass Plane
2007
AL#89 p.22 ALA2 p.26
Ken Altman
▪ Watch Altman construct a 3″ plane from brass stock and steel for the blade — a very cool and elegant tool for lutherie that’s not too hard to make and requires few tools to construct. With 25 photos.
It Worked for Me: Bow Making Planes
1999
AL#59 p.60
Ken Altman
▪ French bowmaking planes very much like the ones used by Stephan Thomachot, who gives bowmaking workshops at Oberlin College.