Fred Battershell makes a great variety of instruments including dulcimers, viols, psalteries, hurdy gurdies, and crwths. He has been a member for twenty-five of the last twenty-eight years, and has written a number of reviews for our pages.
▪ bio current as of 1987
1985
AL#4 p.52 BRB1 p.492 read this article
Frederick Battershell
▪ The reviewer examines what has become one of the main-stay catalogs of lutherie and finds that it’s not only chock full of wood, supplies, and tools, it’s a nearly encyclopedic source of lutherie information.
1985
AL#3 p.48 BRB1 p.489 read this article
Frederick Battershell
▪ The reviewer finds the book to be poorly organized and under-illustrated, making it a poor text for the beginning violinmaker.
1985
AL#2 p.51 BRB1 p.487
Frederick Battershell
▪ The reviewer praises the concise approach of the book as it describes one builder’s construction of a violin.
1979
DS#113 LT p.41
Frederick Battershell
▪ Humongous spool clamp.
1977
DS#42
Frederick Battershell
▪ A simple tool for beveling linings after they are glued in.
1975
GALNL Vol.3#5,6 p.17 read this article
Frederick Battershell
▪ The Successful Craftsman: Making Your Craft Your Business by Alex Bealer, is a book that promises a great deal and delivers nothing of lasting value, thus betraying its author’s profession, advertising.