Five-year GAL member Fernando A. Jaén quit his engineering job and now makes guitars full time in Spain. That wouldnt be strange if he built Spanish guitars, but he makes jazz archtops.
▪ bio current as of 2022
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Adjustable Pickguard Bracket
2022
AL#147 p.58
F.A. Jaen
▪ Heres an elegant and sophisticated way to build an adjustable bracket to support the pickguard of an archtop guitar. Most of it is inside the guitar, so it gives a slick, minimal look.
Stiffer Guitar Linings
2020
AL#141 p.47
F.A. Jaen
▪ These linings are something like reverse kerfing, but they are built up in place, starting with an ingeniously aligned set of individual blocks. There’s always a new way to do it.
Not Only Cones Make It- And Cylinders Almost Do
2010
AL#101 p.52
F.A. Jaen
▪ It seems reasonable that the strings of a guitar, not being parallel, could not properly lie on a fretboard that describes a cylinder, but the numbers say otherwise.