John Curtis is a partner in Luthier’s Mercantile, a founding member of WARP, and a world traveler on behalf of the world’s dwindling supplies of tropical hardwoods.
▪ bio current as of 1993
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Sustainability: An Issue Facing Luthiers
1993
AL#33 p.40 BRB3 p.298 read this article
John Curtis
▪ Curtis is a wood dealer and a founder of WARP (Woodworkers Alliance for Rainforest Protection). Here he examines international law, species extinction, conservation, and local economies in the Third World. Oh yeah, and the American luthier’s place in this scheme.
This article has been nominated as one of the Guild’s best articles published before 2010.
‘Way Down Upon the Amazon River
1987
AL#10 p.53 BRB1 p.412 read this article
John Curtis
▪ A wood merchant relates the difficulties of getting lumber out of the jungle, and why the rain forest isn’t being replanted.