Why don you contribute to one or more of the lutherie forums on the Internet?
The interactive forums are great places for folks with questions to get them answered. I poke around in them from time to time when I’m looking for specific information and I’m always impressed with the level of expertise of most of the people offering answers. A lot of the brightest bulbs of lutherie hang out in these forums, so a questioner can expect to get expert advice there. I don’t do forums as a rule as I believe they offer a less optimal way of getting the information to the greatest number of people than does a website like this or formal articles in American Lutherie. Forum answers tend to be short and informal and generally less fleshed out than would be acceptable if the same topic was discussed in, say, a published article. This is not to say there aren’t very comprehensive answers published by some authors in some forums, but they are the exception not the rule. But the main problem with forums as a means of information dissemination for me is that, once an answer appear
