eBook: Building Electric Guitars
By Martin KochHow to make solid-body, hollow-body and semi-acoustic electric guitars and bass guitars
PDF-format (4.6 MB), 235 pages, printable
229 drawings, 627 b/w photos, 15 color photos
Download time: About 30 minutes with an analog 56k modem or ISDN connection. DSL, cable, T1 or T3 internet connections will be much faster.
Everything from the first steps of design to the final set-up of of solid-body, hollow-body and semi-acoustic electric guitars is covered step by step in this eBook. It contains a section about winding your own pickups and another on active guitar electronics. The last chapter is about visits to Steve Jarman Guitars (UK), Sadowsky Guitars (US) and PRS-Guitars (US)
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Some of the guitars made for writing the book
