Guitarmaker Magazine...
The "Abraxas" model
by luthier Erich Solomon is featured on the Winter 2006 cover of
Guitarmaker magazine, one of the foremost trade publications for
luthiers and a beautifully produced magazine by the Association of
Stringed Instrument Artisans. If you are at all interested in
luthierie, then you owe it to
yourself to check out the Association of Stringed Instrument Makers and
the Guild of American Lutherie.
Links to more videos featuring Solomon Guitars
Zeb Heintz playing an acoustic Phidelity at the 2010 Montreal Guitar Show. You can check out Zeb's music here.
Mike Moss playing an
original composition "Going
Somewhere" on his 18" Grand American "Deco" guitar. Also,
thanks to Henry Lowenstein you can check out Mike's entire performance
at Florida's Newport Guitar Festival that was held in 2010 here
and here.
2011 Healdsburg Guitar Festival
I will be displaying some new builds at the 2011 Healdsburg Guitar Festival in beautitul Santa Rosa, California. Mark Goldenberg will be playing my mini-concert on his new Phidelity guitar. Please come and see us at the booth and mini-concert.
Erich Solomon and Lie Nielsen
Toolworks Collaboration
This year, I
designed a special woodworking plane especially for archtop guitar and
violin family instrument makers for Lie-Nielsen Toolworks,
the Rolls-Royce of production hand planes. It is a beauty of a tool,
and Lie-Nielsen will be able to do it justice. In addition, I will also
be featured in an instructional DVD produced by Lie-Nielsen on how to
use the plane and carve the exterior arch of the top of an archtop
guitar. The plane is scheduled to go into production next year, with
the DVD to follow shortly after. I am hoping that a limited edition of
the first planes will be individually numbered and signed by myself and
Thomas Lie-Nielsen. If so, the limited edition tool would be guaranteed
to become a Lie- Nielsen collectable. (The 500 limited edition 25th
anniversary planes from last year have already doubled in value in one
year!) Be sure to check out Lie-Nielsen online at www.lie-nielsen.com If you are a luthier, L-N has
a NEW, absolutely MUST HAVE tool, the Boggs Concave Spokeshave. It is
the PERFECT tool for carving necks! BTW, one of my necks is featured on
the L-N Boggs Concave Spokeshave web page. :)
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2006 Erich Solomon Weissenborn
slide guitars
In 2006, I built two
identical Weissenborn style guitars of my own design. They are possibly
the best sounding instruments that I have built to date, and I am proud
to say that both of them went to two exceptional musicians, Nicholas
Petumenos and Tom Doughty. Good luck to both of them, and be sure to
see them play if they come to your town.
Nick Petumenos is a gifted multi-instrumentalist from Alaska, who graduated at the top of his class at Berkley School of Music. He is currently performing with Alaskan Native American Tribal Funk World Rhythm Band, Pamyua. They recently toured Europe and performed at the Copenhagen Jazz Festival this year, and also won the Native American Record of the Year in 2003. Nick also happens to be my best friend!
Tom Doughty is a fantastic slide player, songwriter, and vocalist from England. He now has released three CDs: "Have a taste of this!", "Running Free" and "The Bell". All three albums are amazing. Also, he has designed and created an amazing bottleneck slide, "The Evolution" that is now produced by Diamond Bottlenecks. If you play slide guitar you deserve one of these. You can check out the CDs and the slide here.
as played by Nick Petumenos