Building Electric Guitars
How to make solid-body, hollow-body and semi-acoustic guitars and basses.
It's easy to Build Your Own Lap
Steel Guitar
How to make solid-body lap steel guitars.
E-Gitarrenbau
Der Bau von massiven, teilmassiven und semiakustischen Gitarren und Bässen.
Gitarrenbau
Der Bau von 6- und 12-saitigen Stahlsaitengitarren, einem akustischen Bass und einer
Dobro.
Downloadable PDF versions of the books above:
Build Your Solid-Body
Guitar
35 video clips (a total of 45 min) show the complete making of a
solid-body guitar.
It's easy to Build Your Own Lap Steel Guitar
Accompanying CD-ROM with 75 minutes of QuickTime movies that show the building of two lap steel guitars.
"I was just watching some of the videos on the CD. They are
fantastic! I am building my first guitar now and many of the steps
intimidated me. There are many video clips on this CD which makes
all the steps way less intimidating. It is so cool to be able to
see someone actually making a guitar. I am way more confident and I
definitely recommend the CD."
Peter Michaux, Canada, petermichauxATyahoo.com
Solid-body guitar
Companion plan for a solidbody guitar with twohumbuckers.
Lap steel guitar
Companion plan of a solid-body lap steel guitar.
The World's Most Successful Electric Guitar
This particular guitar is probably the No1 of all self made guitars.
Workshop apron
A serious guitarbuilder must wear one!
"I was so ashtonished of these books and CD-ROM (Building Electric Guitars, CD-ROM and plan, lap steel book and plan) that they kept me going all day long once I received them, I've been repairing guitars for some time know and want to go out their and build them too. It wouldn't hurt me to get second and third opinions using books and see how other people look at it. All I can say is that I'm blown away of the whole concept Martin has put together, it gives me the prove that there's always something to learn and that's the way it should be.
These books will have a vast place on my guitar literature shelf, I really know where to look into now when a run into an issue on a bad day.
I bet you had to give a lot of input on this but you can be bloody well proud of it!!!, A thousand times thanks!!!!!"
Stefan, S-tone Guitar Repair,Custom Pedalboards & effects, March 2005