Twenty-year Guild member Jeffrey Yong travels from Malaysia to GAL Conventions, a twenty-hour flight each way. He’s an urbanite who traverses the jungles in search of tonewood. He’s a guitar maker and a teacher of lutherie, and he welcomes visitors.
▪ bio current as of 2013
2016
AL#125 p.69
Jeffrey Yong
▪ Types of wood found in fancy wood panelling in Chinese hotels.
2013
AL#113 p.67
Jeffrey Yong
▪ A simple jig for the slotting of a guitar nut.
2012
AL#110 p.36
Brian Yarosh Jeffrey Yong
▪ An update since 2004’s meet the maker article in AL#78. Yong on his expansive career, exotic woods, and instruments.
2012
AL#110 p.44
Jeffrey Yong
▪ Pictorial essay on Jeffrey Yong’s quick and easy armrest bevel and scoop cutaway building method.
2004
AL#78 p.46 BRB7 p.200
John Calkin Jeffrey Yong
▪ Yong hails from Malaysia, a country not often associated with fine lutherie. Nevertheless, he makes a lot of instruments that look very contemporary and tasty, and he has access to varieties of wood that would make many of us very envious. With 10 photos.
1996
AL#48 p.58
Jeffrey Yong
▪ Clamping a wood block with nails down the middle of the guitar to bind the guitar on one side at a time.