Long-time GAL member David W. Schneider has been building instruments of his own design as a hobby on and off for fifty-plus years.

▪ bio current as of 2014

2014
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David Schneider                                                                                           

▪ Keep it simple. Sketch an outline on a piece of butcher paper. Go down to the Home Depot and get a few boards of that pink stuff that they call “mahogany.” Saw it up, bend it freehand, glue it onto blocks. Pretty soon you have a lap steel, no forms, jigs, or patterns needed.