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Step-by-step Guitar Making
Making an acoustic guitar is much easier than most people suppose and this straightforward guide shows you how. With basic woodworking skills, a modest work space and only a few specialist tools, you too can make an instrument fit for the concert platform. All stages are fully illustrated with colour photos and clear drawings and contain detailed plans for every part of the instrument. It even helps with choosing materials, tuning the soundboard, placing the frets and adjusting the action - all steps which are crucial to the making of a top-quality instrument. The guitar described is a steel-stringed OM cutaway orchestra model with 14 frets to the body joint. It is ideal for the fingerstyle player, giving good projection in bass, middle and treble ranges.
144 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2007
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April 30, 2013
This isn't a complete guide and whoever edited it missed out on a bunch of spelling and grammar errors.
The author over complicates the technical process with fancy wording.
One whole paragraph could probably be reduced to a single sentence.
Though not useless it, it provides a step in the door but you really have to get the other leg in on your own from experience.
The author sometimes cops out saying from time to time, "Beyond the scope of this book."
You can take notes and reword it to your own liking but the photographs really are what will clarify whats going on there.
There is a one page glossary at the back but it is limited. The author sometimes uses different terms to describe the same thing.
This sort of reads like a first draft that got published too early.
The author also assumes you have wood working experience too, and doesn't comment on what you should or shouldn't be paying for certain tools, equipment, glues, lumber...etc...
Basically you can end up spending hundreds if not thousands of dollars on tools alone.
Also doesn't help that the website at the end no longer exists.
If you do plan on really doing it double check with a local luthier or a supplier to make sure everything checks out with what is written.
You're gonna need a lot of clamps!
The author over complicates the technical process with fancy wording.
One whole paragraph could probably be reduced to a single sentence.
Though not useless it, it provides a step in the door but you really have to get the other leg in on your own from experience.
The author sometimes cops out saying from time to time, "Beyond the scope of this book."
You can take notes and reword it to your own liking but the photographs really are what will clarify whats going on there.
There is a one page glossary at the back but it is limited. The author sometimes uses different terms to describe the same thing.
This sort of reads like a first draft that got published too early.
The author also assumes you have wood working experience too, and doesn't comment on what you should or shouldn't be paying for certain tools, equipment, glues, lumber...etc...
Basically you can end up spending hundreds if not thousands of dollars on tools alone.
Also doesn't help that the website at the end no longer exists.
If you do plan on really doing it double check with a local luthier or a supplier to make sure everything checks out with what is written.
You're gonna need a lot of clamps!
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