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In 1975 I wrote a book on beginning
I've created DePaule Supply as a web based and mail order business. We will try to bring you great products at reasonable prices with no minimum order. At this time we have many of the most
popular shell blanks at what we believe are the lowest prices anywhere,
both retail and wholesale. We offer Paua Abalone*, Red Abalone and
White Mother of Pearl, Gold Mother of Pearl as well as Tahitian Black
Mother of Pearl. For thirty years I collected drawings
of many old american guitar, banjo and mandolin inlay designs. We
are having hand cut
reproductions of these inlay designs made in Asia. They come to you
ready to inlay into your instruments. I am able to bring these to
you at very good prices indeed. Most of the fret board sets are $40.00
to $50.00 while peg head inlays are from $5.00 to $40.00. I will be
having more of these designs cut as time goes on. You should check
back from time to time and see what is available. We have been working hard with Turbo-CAD to redraw all of our designs. The result are perfect working drawings for our cutters to use. We will soon have these reworked drawings available as free downloads on our site for you to use for cutting your shell inlays (using our shell, of course!). Most of our designs are from banjos, however many luthiers have used these on guitars. Some of the banjo peghead designs do not work so well on a guitar peg head and none have a rosette. We have started to take some of the most popular of these and designed matching guitar peg head inlays and matching rosettes in the original style. The results are very pleasing and will be seen on our site soon. All of our inlays are hand cut (no
computers) one at a time by the finest craftsmen. When I started this
business I was always looking for more people who could do this work
in order to get the best quality work possible. Often the work was
not of the quality I wanted. Other times the first work would be good
but after a short time the quality would drop. 4:PM (Pacific Time Zone) Mon
to Fri and 9:AM to 12: Noon on the first and third Saturday of each
month.
Because I am a one man operation here in the US, I am in and out of the office (My home). Sometimes I forward to my cell phone when I need to run errands. If not, you can leave a message and I will return your call as soon as possible. From time to time I will be out of the country working in my Viet Nam workshop to develop new products. During those times I will be in touch by e-mail. Hope to do business with you soon, Andy SiteNavigation
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Andy DePaule 1173 Berntzen Road, Eugene, OR 97402 (541) 607-8971 USA andydepaule@luthiersupply.com © Copyright 2005 luthiersupply.com. All Rights Reserved. |
instrument
building. The name ot the book was "Country Instruments, Makin
your own" and it was first published by Oliver Press in 1976
and republished by Van Nostrand Reinhold in 1979. It has been out
of print since 1984. I should take a little space here to say sorry
to those who bought the book. At that time I was 27 years old and
thought I knew all there was to know about instrument construction,
politics, women and the cosmos... I was wrong on all counts! I only
hope the book sparked enough interest to get some folks on the road
to becoming luthiers. 
not
afford before. With the new equipment we are able to cut and grind
our
shells into high quality blanks. We are now importing raw shells into
Viet Nam from around the world to process for sale and for cutting
our inlays.
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