Dana Bourgeois has been designing and building acoustic guitars for over a quarter of a century. He has often lectured on the subject, and has also written several influential articles on various aspects of the guitar building art, most notably about tonewoods, and about  the voicing and bracing of acoustic guitars.  Click on the links below to read Dana's articles, reprinted here through the kind permission of the original publisher.     "Tapping Tonewoods" - March / April 1994, Acoustic Guitar magazine .   Voicing The Steel String Guitar - Transcription of Dana's lecture at the 1990 Guild of  American Luthiers convention.  Reprinted from American Lutherie magazine.  "This is perhaps the strongest article ever published in American Lutherie about voicing the top and bracing of the steel string guitar. The fall-out from this piece has been very wide spread." Editor, American Lutherie "Still Voicing, Still Dreaming"  -  Spring 2000 issue of American Lutherie. "Finishing Touches"  - Fall 2004 issue of Frets magazine.  Read Dana's article on the finishes he uses on Bourgeois Guitars.