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Evan Gluck is an internationally recognized guitar technician. He has been a regular lecturer at conventions for the Guild of American Luthiers (GAL) and for the Association of Stringed Instruments Artisans (ASIA).
2,802 Followers, 414 Following, 352 Posts - Evan Gluck (@newyorkguitarrepair) on Instagram: "I fix guitars. I tell jokes. Don't mean to, they just come out. Click link for the book! ⬇️ Please use my email for guitar repair inquiries.
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- Tips and Tricks For Working in A Really Small Shop
- Organized and Ergonomic Tool Bench
- The Importance of Tool Location and Keeping A Bench Clear
- Evan's String Change Trade Secret
It puts it up at a right height, it's rock solid, I could drill into it if I want to. So this has been working and then I have this vice here cause I do most of my work on it's a StewMac ShopStand. And this guy is one of the little Rock-n-Roller Neck Rest that I put some leather on because I was going to use it really as my main support. So I just ...
All right. So one thing that I sort of developed around here is just having a very organized and ergonomic way of where my tools are placed. It takes a specific tool to have the honor being on my bench. And what that means is it's a tool that I will use for every single guitar, basically. So unless it's a Steinberger, I'm going to use this peg wind...
There's not a screwdriver on my bench, there's not a wrench, there's not pliers, there's not string cutters. Speaking of string cutters, there's a tragic event at New York Guitar Repair a couple of months ago. This string cutter cut the strings off of probably 17,700 guitars since I opened. I bought it at the hardware store across the street for pr...
I'm doing it plugged in, because it will sound like bugs bunny for our [inaudible 00:05:34] when I turn this up. Here's the way I do it. I use the drill to keep repetitive stress down. And then rather than using a straight cutter, what I do is hear how the pitch dropped, is I just break it off like that. So what that does is first off, it creates t...
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Video Transcription [on-screen text reads: Running a one-man guitar shop - StewMac] Evan Gluck: Okay. I'm Evan Gluck and I run New York Guitar Repair here in New York City. If you're in a city like New York or Nashville or one of the big cities that has a big music population, if you're doing solid work, you are going to be as busy as you can be.
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Evan Gluck runs New York Guitar Repair and is often asked to lecture on aspects of running a small business. This is a bit ironic considering that Evan claims, “my profession is not to work.”. In fact, there are many counter-intuitive things that Evan says and it is all part of his unique perspective on guitar repair and life.
Evan Gluck runs New York Guitar Repair and is often asked to lecture on aspects of running a small business. This is a bit ironic considering that Evan claims "my profession is not to work." In fact, there are many counter-intuitive things that Evan says and it is all part of his unique perspective on guitar repair and life.
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Meet the Maker: Evan Gluck. by Linda Stuckey. If you attended the last couple of GAL Conventions, you will remember Evan Gluck. We all know he’s a guitar repair guy in NYC. But in this interview we learn some very interesting non-lutherie things about him, like that he was raised by a film director, and then married a film director.
