Photo by Phil Waldstein
Doug Cottel and Larry McCabe operators of a guitar-repairing service started recently in
Eugene.
Guitar repair shop opens
By BARBARA SVENDSEN
Of the Emerald
Two members of a family of six that settled here in September
have started a guitar-repairing service, Risyfrida, Ltd., located in
southeast Eugene.
The move from Coos Bay to Eugene was not made with the intent
of starting such a business, but Doug Cottel and Larry McCabe
discovered that their abilities are in demand.
After contacting various northwest music stores, they realized
that about the only thing that a guy with a broken guitar can do is to
send it back to the manufacturer or buy a new one.
“There’s no way any of us can find jobs,” Doug commented. “So
we’re trying to get together what we can.”
“We were just doing it for a hobby, for ourselves” added Larry.
The two stumbled onto guitar making in Coos Bay about six years
ago when Larry got ahold of a 12-string guitar for $25.00 because the
neck was warped.
He took it to a man named Fred Revis who had a Coos Bay shop
where he repaired and made guitars, not commercially, but for
friends.
He told me “I’ll show you how, but you do it,” said Larry. “So I
did. But Doug really got interested in working with guitars.”
Doug owns a myrtle-wood guitar that he made from scratch
“because no-one said I could make a guitar from myrtle-wood.” He
could sell it for at least $1,000.
Right now he’s finishing a mahogany neck for a
500 Guild guitar that was given him because the neck was broken and
the guy couldn’t find a place to get it fixed.
Larry has been playing for six or seven years, and is hoping to
arrange concerts in the Eugene area.
They’ve contacted various Eugene music stores, including Music
City and Graves, who will send them guitars in need of repair.
“After we get things together with commercial businesses, we’d
really rather do things with people” Larry said.
“We’re trying to be reasonable as far as rates go,” Doug added.
“The cost would depend on the person, what he wants done, and the
material he wants to use.”
The service is available now, the number to call is 344-3581. Or if
you bring your guitar over to their place, they may even invite you to
stay for dinner.
City Council considers
disorderly conduct law
A new disorderly conduct or
dinance comes before the Eugene
City Council tonight at a public
hearing. If approved, it would
replace an existing law that city
officials feel is worthless due to
new court rulings in recent years
on civil liberties.
The new ordinance gives a
more precise definition of what
constitutes orderly conduct It
redefines offenses in indecent
exposure and gives the police a
more effective way for dealing
with demonstrations.
Police may arrest for disor
derly conduct under the proposed
ordinance if:
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(1) A person “congregates with
another or others in or upon any
public way so as to halt the flow
of vehicular or pedestrian traffic
and refuses to remove himself
from such public place when
ordered to do so by the police or
other lawful authority.”
(2) The person “congregates
with other persons in a public
place and refuses to comply with
the lawful order of the police to
disperse.”
Violations are punishable by up
to a $100 fine and or 100 days in
jail.
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