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Build Your Own Acoustic Guitar

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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Build Your Own Acoustic Guitar
Item# Description In stock Price Quantity
0560 Build Your Own Acoustic Guitar Yes $27.95
5 or more $20.96  


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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



Shown on page 90 of our latest catalog.

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