Sylvan Wells was a practicing trial lawyer until 2003, building acoustic guitars as a diversion. His article on “String Spacing for Guitars” was published by American Lutherie way back in 1978, when it was still the GAL Quarterly. He now lives in Massachusetts and builds guitars under the Bay State brand.
▪ bio current as of 2011
2011
AL#106 p.65
Sylvan Wells
▪ A guitar’s design as covered by an active U.S. patent and avoiding the risk of legal suit by inventors.
1979
DS#103
Sylvan Wells
▪ An explanation of the method for proper spacing for cutting slots for strings in the nut and laying out centers in order to drill the holes for bridge pins, concluded with the mathematics already completed in an easy to use table.