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Taffy Evans

Taffy Evans — The Lone Luthier — Spent 30 years building and repairing guitars a thousand miles from anywhere, in Central Australia. Now works and lives in the small gold mining town of Charters Towers in North Queensland, for the past 10 years. Taffy builds guitars: Flat tops, Resonators, Hollow Neck Lap Steels, solid body electric guitars as well as Mandolins. Much of the time he is doing repairs for players up and down the North Queensland coast and hinterland. He plays in The Venus Blues Band. He’s been a Guild member for twenty-six of the last thirty years.

▪ bio current as of 2008

Letter: Photos to Document Your Tools and Jigs

2022
AL#146 p.3               
Taffy Evans                                                                                           

▪ When the day comes when you want to give away your tools and jigs, that will be easier to do if you remember what they were for. Document them with photos now. You will be glad you did.