Guitar building literature

Electric guitar building

Melvyn Hiscock
Make Your Own Electric Guitar
NBS Publications, 2nd Edition 1998

Roger Siminoff
Constructing a Solid-Body Guitar
Hal Leonhard,1986

Bill Foley
Build Your Own Electric Guitar
GVM Publishing, 1986

Dan Erlewine
Making a Solidbody Electric Guitar
120 min VHS videocassette
(NTSC format) + full-size blueprint
Stewart-MacDonald, 1985

Tom Hirst
Electric Guitar Construction
Centerstream Publications, 2003

Martin Koch
Building Electric Guitars
Self-published, 2001

Martin Koch
Build Your Solid-Body Guitar
Multimedia CD-ROM, 2000

Acoustic guitar building

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William R. Cumpiano,
Jonathan D. Natelson
Guitarmaking:
Tradition And Technology
A Complete Reference for the Design and Construction of the Steel-String Folk Guitar and the Classical Guitar
Chronicle Books, 1985

Jim Williams
A Guitar Maker's Manual
Hal Leonhard, 1986

David Roussel Young
The Steel String Guitar:
Construction & Repair
The Bold Strummer, 1987

Irving Sloane
Steel-String Guitar Construction
The Bold Strummer, 1990

Irving Sloane
Classic Guitar Construction
Stirling Publishing Co., 1989

George Buchanan
Making Stringed Instruments -
A Workshop Guide
Sterling, 1990

Guild of American Luthiers
Lutherie Woods and
Steel String Guitars
Guild of American Luthiers, 1997

Frank Finocchio
Build along with Frank Finocchio
Five VHS videocassettes, overall length 9 hours
(NTSC format) Finocchio, 2001 9 hours of instruction

Archtop guitar building

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Robert Benedetto
Making an Archtop Guitar
Limelite Press, 1994

Robert Benedetto
Archtop Guitar -
Design & Construction
Five VHS videocassettes, overall length 9 hours and 32 minutes
(NTSC format) Benedetto, 1996

Fretwork

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Stewart-MacDonald Shopguide Series
Dan Erlewine
Fretwork - Step by Step
Stewart-MacDonald, 1994

Dan Erlewine
Don´t Fret - Complete professional fretting methods
120 min VHS videocassette
(NTSC format)
Stewart-MacDonald, 1993

Inlay work

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James E. Patterson
Pearl Inlay
An Instruction Manual for Inlaying Abalone And Mother of Pearl
Stewart-MacDonald, 1991

Larry Robinson
The Art of Inlay
Miller Freeman Books, 1994

Don McRostie
Pearl Inlay Techniques
60 min VHS videocassette
(NTSC format)
Stewart-MacDonald

Finishing

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Stewart-MacDonald
Shopguide Series
Dan Erlewine, Don McRostie
Guitar Finishing - Step by Step
Stewart-MacDonald, 1998

Dan Erlewine, Don McRostie
Spray Finishing Basics
90 min VHS videocassette
(NTSC format)
Stewart-MacDonald, 1999

Dan Erlewine, Don McRostie
Sunburst Finishing
50 min VHS videocassette
(NTSC format)
Stewart-MacDonald, 1999

Bob Flexner
Understanding Woodfinishing
Rodale Press, 1994

Jeff Jewitt
Hand-Applied Finishes
The Taunton Press, 1997

Jeff Jewitt
Hand-Applied Finishes:
Applying Top Coats
40 min VHS videocassette
(NTSC format)
The Taunton Press, 1997

Andy Charron
Spray Finishing
The Taunton Press, 1996

Andy Charron
Water Based Finishes
The Taunton Press, 1999

Derrick Crump
The Complete Guide
to Wood Finishes
Quarto Publishing, GB, 1992

Setup

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Hideo Kamimoto
Electric Guitar Setup
Amsco Publications, 1994

Harvey Citron
Basic Guitar Setup and Repair
90 min VHS videocassette
(NTSC or PAL)
Homespun Tapes, 1984, P.O.Box 694 Woodstock NY 12498-0694, USA

Guitar electronics

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Donald Brosnac
Guitar Electronics for Musicians
Amsco Publications, 1983

Adrian Legg
Customizing Your Electric Guitar
Amsco Publications, 1991

Dan Erlewine
Guitar Electronics
& Hot Rod Techniques
60 min VHS videocassette
(NTSC format)
Stewart-MacDonald

Pickup winding

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Jason Lollar
Basic Pickup Winding
And Complete Guide to
Making Your Own Pickup Winder
Lollar Publications, 2nd Edition 1999
www.lollarguitars.com

Erno Zwaan
Animal Magnetism For Musicians
EZ TECH, NL, 1988

Guitar repair

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Dan Erlewine
GuitarPlayer Repair Guide
How to Set Up, Maintain, and Repair Electrics and Acoustics
Miller Freeman Books, 1994

Hideo Kamimoto
Complete Guitar Repair
Oak Publication, 1978

Peter J. Fillet
Do It Yourself - Guitar Repair
Amsco Publications, 1984

Don E. Teeter
The Acoustic Guitar
Adjustment, Care, Maintenance, and Repair
University of Oklahoma Press, 1975

Illustrated books

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Tony Bacon
The Ultimate Guitar Book
Dorling Kindersley, 1991

Ferrington Guitars
Callaway Editions, 1992

Musical Instruments
Dorling Kindersley, 1989

Microsoft MultiMedia CD-ROM:
Musical Instruments

Woodworking

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Bruce Hoadley
Understanding Wood
The Taunton Press, 1980

Albert Jackson, David Day
Collins Complete
Woodworker's Manual
William Collins Sons & Co., GB, 1989

Tage Frid
Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking:
Book 1: Joinery
The Taunton Press, 1979

Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking:
Shaping, Veneering, Finishing
The Taunton Press, 1981

Mario Rodriguez
Handplanes in the Woodshop
45 min VHS videocassette
(NTSC format)
The Taunton Press, 1996

Nick Engler
Using the Bandsaw
Techniques for better Woodworking
Rodale Press, 1992

Patrick Spielman
The New Router Handbook
and Router Jigs & Techniques
Sterling Publishing, 1993,1988

Ian Kirby
The Accurate Router
Cambion Press, 1998

William Tandy Young
The Glue Book
Taunton Press, 1998

Sandor Nagyszalanczy
The Wood Sanding Book
Taunton Press, 1997

Toshio Odate
Japanese Woodworking Tools:
Their Tradition, Spirit and Use
The Taunton Press, 1984

Leonhard Lee
Sharpening
Taunton Press, 1997

Guild of American Luthiers
Lutherie Tools
Guild of American Luthiers, 1990

Workshop

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Scott Landis
The Workshop Book
The Taunton Press, 1991

Scott Landis
The Workbench Book
The Taunton Press, 1987

Sandor Nagyszalanczy
Woodshop Dust Control
The Taunton Press, 1996

Sandor Nagyszalanczy
Woodshop Jigs & Fixtures
The Taunton Press, 1994

Woodworking magazines

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Fine Woodworking
Taunton Press, US

American Woodworker
Readers Digest, US

Good Woodworking
Future Publishing, GB

Web forums

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Luthiers-Organisations

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Two American associations that hold sessions and workshops. For an annual member fee you'll get a magazine four times a year which is full of interesting and inspiring articles written by members.

Guild of American Lutheries (GAL)
8222 S. Park Ave., Tacoma, WA 98408, USA
www.luth.org

Association of Stringed
Instruments Artisans (ASIA)
14 S.Broad St., Nazareth, PA 18064, USA
www.guitarmaker.org