English luthier Jonathan Kinkead has written this detailed manual for building a steel-string guitar in the Martin OM size. It's one of the most organized and attractive recent books on guitar construction, featuring an abundance of highly detailed color photographs that help make the building process easy to understand.
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Contents in brief: • Design: Choosing the rosette, bindings, inlays and peghead shape • Materials: Choosing the woods, hardware, fittings and tools for your guitar • Work setup: The shop environment, safety and tool sharpening • Jigs and templates: The body mold, go-bar press and clamping cauls • The soundboard and back: Joining, thicknessing, inlaying the rosette, profiling and bracing • The sides: Bending, profiling, kerfing and body blocks • The body: Fitting the soundboard and back, binding and purfling • The neck: Laminating and shaping, making neck-to-body joints, installing the truss rod and fretboard, sawing the fret slots, inlaying the peghead and fretboard • Fretting: Installing and dressing the frets • Finishing: Applying an oil finish or a waterbase finish • The bridge: Making, locating and gluing the bridge • Setup: Making and slotting a nut and saddle, installing tuning machines and strings, and final playability adjustment • Care and maintenance: Cleaning, truss rod adjustments and storage • Amplification: Suggestions for pickups
160 pages, softcover, including full-scale builder's plan
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