Paul Gudelsky's death

[Gary Persons]

I just read in this month's "Acoustic Guitar" that archtop luthier Paul
Gudelsky was murdered in his home in May. Does anybody have any
information about this?

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[SOBERMEYER]

There has been enormous speculation regarding the circumstances of Paul
Gudelsky's murder from within as well as outside the music business.
Please don't construe this as a slam or flame in any way but adding to
that speculation somehow seems inappropriate. I would strongly suggest
anyone interested to contact the local police department and/or district
attorney. After all Paul was murdered.

[Gary Persons]

Sometimes ASCII loses the sensitivity that you can have in a normal
conversation.

I was actually looking for confirmation.

It unfortunately looks as though the magazine article was correct.

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[delta...@gmail.com]

I am Paul Gudelsy's one and only student. According to his wife, someone came into the shop and wanted money. Paul said no so he was shot and then the murderer stole a lot of guitars from the house

[wereoawl]

<delta...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:76499712-b64c-4187...@googlegroups.com...

>I am Paul Gudelsy's one and only student. According to his wife, someone
>came into the shop and wanted money. Paul said no so he was shot and then
>the murderer stole a lot of guitars from the house

That's sad.

[rfl...@southerntechnicalcontrol.com]

On Sunday, June 16, 2013 at 10:12:47 AM UTC-5, delta...@gmail.com wrote:
> I am Paul Gudelsy's one and only student. According to his wife, someone came into the shop and wanted money. Paul said no so he was shot and then the murderer stole a lot of guitars from the house

I worked for Paul in 1995/1996. I swept his shop and helped him rotating the wood. He showed me how to buff the orange pitting off of the guitars. He said I would have to pay for an apprenticeship, but if I was willing to sweep the floor and keep the shop clean, I could hang out with him. I helped him with the NAMM show in Anaheim and really enjoyed hanging out with Paul. Pauls shop was at the base of the hill down the drive from his house. I forget the name of the Canyon he lived on... I think it was Bonsal Canyon. It's been too many years. I was interested in building bass guitars which Paul thought was a waste of energy. After playing one of his guitars... I totally understood what he meant. I got to sit at the Paul's bench, which was Jimmie's Bench, Which was Johnny's bench... I never met either of the other two great luthiers. But Paul was an amazing man. I found out that he had been murdered while at Dusty's Guitar Kingdom in Oceanside / Carlsbad. I couldn't believe it. Paul was a mountain of a man on the inside. I miss him. And though it's been many years since I worked for him, for free, just to learn... I think of Paul often. May God rest his soul. I'm glad he didn't stick to sculpting stone. His wood sculptures will sing sweetly for centuries to come.

RD Floyd

[rfl...@southerntechnicalcontrol.com]

Correction... It was Gopher Canyon... Just outside of Vista... It has been a lot of years.