Second-Generation Luthier Joshia de Jonge Was Born with Woodworking in her Blood

by Stephanie Powell From hobby to handwork, second-generation luthier Joshia de Jonge went from whittling her first alto classical guitar out of Bolivian rosewood with a mahogany neck in her father’s workshop to crafting her own line of classical guitars, complete with a traditional, trademarked rosette. It was the woodworking that hooked her, she says—that and perhaps a little old-fashioned sibling rivalry. “It started when my brother was eight, tinkering around in the shop, building a ukulele-like thing,” de Jonge … Continue reading Second-Generation Luthier Joshia de Jonge Was Born with Woodworking in her Blood