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Build Your Own Acoustic Guitar


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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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5 9-29-2011
Great book!

Their is more to learn than any set of books could teach, but this read will get you in the right direction, Very Informative book a must have if your planning to do a scratch build or even will help with kit assembly.

JVan  Granger,IN Read my reviews (16)
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4 2-18-2011
Build your Own

Lots of good information.

Clinchriver Instruments  Andersonville Tennessee Read my reviews (6)
3 2-02-2011
Pretty good book

I like this book and would have given it a higher rating but I found "Guitar making Tradition and Technology" which I like a lot better

newluthier  Riverdale, UT
5 9-05-2010
Good quality

Excellent and good quality

mario_66  Italy Read my reviews (2)
5 8-04-2010
Amazing book

If you know what a piece of wood and a chisel looks like, and you can't build a guitar after reading this book, you might want to try sports instead.

Stefan Toernkvist  Sweden
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