Last update: July| 7, 2022
Last check for broken links: February 12, 2021
The amount of guitar building related pages has become overwhelming and it's unfortunately impossible for me to keep track of all of them. Anyway here are some:
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Guitar building related Web forums:
Musical Instrument Makers Forum
Gearbuilder.de Deutschsprachiges Gitarrenbauforum
GitarreBassBau.de Deutschsprachiges Gitarrenbauforum
13thfret.com Acoustic guitar discussion forum.
Newsgroup: rec.music.makers.builders
Forum Lutherie French lutherie forum
Sites that cover several instrument types
Lutherie Info - for Builders of Stringed Musical Instruments by R.M. Mottola
Guitar Repair Bench A site dedicated to providing the best instructional articles about guitar repair, maintenance, and guitar building on the web, so you can repair and build your own guitars.
Acoustic guitar building:
Kathy Matsushita's Notes from an Amateur Luthier
www.onlineapprentice.com David Schramm's comprehensive online classical guitar making course
Building A Martin Kit Guitar
David C. Hurd- Ukulele Builder in Hawaii
Make a Ukulele
Building a Guitar By Charlie Hoffman
Guitar building at Mario Proulx Guitars
CRANE Guitars Luthier Makoto Tsuruta from Tokyo
JH Gitarren German website
Oudinfo.de Der Bau einer arabischen Oud
Lukas A. Giefing from Vienna
Scotty's Cigar Box Guitars Lots of easy and interesting projects
Gitarrenmanufaktur from Germany
Ralph Bonte from Belgium
Gitarrenbauen.de ein sehr hilfreicher Wegweiser in die Welt des Gitarrenbau.
The Art of Lutherie Tom Bills lutherie site
Guitar repair:
Frank Ford's site: www.frets.com
Electric guitar building:
Guitar Nut's Everything you need to know about wiring
Guide to Guitarbuilding A lot of information for beginners.
Für Gitarrenlose Dirk Buchfinks humorvolle E-Gitarrenselbstbauanleitung
Projectguitar.com Lots of tutorials, info and links on building electric guitars
RumbleBird's Bass Page Stefan Klugs ausführliche Selbstbaubeschreibung
Wiring Diagrams for Guitars and Basses at the Seymour Duncan website
Guitarlinks.de Gitarrenbauseite von Wolfgang Richter-Kirsch, in Deutsch
Hromi's Gitarrebau Seite
GuitarFrenzy by Matt Vinson
Bau einer Meistergitarre Thorsten Lietz describes building an archtop guitar in German and English
Geli's Hohmpäitsch Angelika Holtes Selbstbauerlebnisse.
Electric bass building:
Building My Homemade "Sit-Down" Bass Michael A. Stridsberg cleverly designed his bass to suit his playing style
MusEdit.com A powerful yet
inexpensive music notation editor
AP
Guitar Tuner Freeware guitar tuner for Windows-PCs with
soundcard
William R. Cumpiano He wrote together with Jonathan Natelson the book "Guitarmaking: Tradition and Technology".
Jonathan Kinkead Author of "Build Your Own Acoustic Guitar" published in 2004.
Melvyn Hiscock Author of "Make Your Own Electric Guitar"
Bill Foley Author of "Build Your Own Electric Guitar"
Roger Siminoff Author of "Constructing a Solidbody Guitar" and many more.
Robert Benedetto Author of "Making an Archtop Guitar"
Jim English Author of "Making A Laminated Hollowbody Electric Guitar"
Jason Lollar Author of "Basic Pickup Winding and Complete Guide to Making Your Own Pickup Winder" Book is no longer available!
Andy Manson Author of "Talking Wood" a book about ten months inside the life of a guitar maker
Jim Donahue published the book: "Guitars, Design, Production and Repair"
Helmuth Lemme Autor von "Elektrogitarren-Sound", eines sehr kompetenten Buches über Gitarrenelektronik und Pickups.
Fritz Rössel Sein Buch "E-GitarrenBackground" ist zwar keine Bauanleitung enthält aber viele wertvolle Tips.
Henry Strobel Author of several books on violin making.
Roy Courtnall Author of "Making Master Guitars" a book on making Classical Guitars. Offers Classical Guitar plans too.
Frank Finocchio Author of a 9 hours video instruction on acoustic guitar making.
Graham McDonald Author of "The Bouzouki Book"
Erno Zwaan Author of "Animal Magnetism for Musicians"
John Gleneicki Author of "HOW TO Create A Factory Guitar Finish With Just A Couple Of Spray Cans!"
Robert O'Brien Author of several guitar making DVDs
John S. Bogdanovich Author of "Classical Guitar Making"
Ervin Somogyi Author of the books "The Responsive Guitar" and "Making The Responsive Guitar"
Leonardo Lospennato Author of the book "Electric Guitar & Electric Bass Design"
Matt Hammond Author of a complete video guide on building your own acoustic guitar
Martin Koch You found him already.
Guild of American Luthiers A lot of links too.
A.S.I.A The Association of Stringed Instrument Artisans
Reinhard
Kockmann Find information about building electric guitars, tube
amps and effect pedals (mostly in German) / Informationen zum
Selbstbau von E-Gitarren, Röhrenverstärkern und
Effektschaltungen.
Harold
Waterman Making a bass
Gitarren aus Stein This guitar body is made of stone
www.Uni-Cut.de by Florian Lüttke
Wataru Okada He developed a guitar from Japanese woods and documented the process.
A
Allen Guitars -
guitars,mandolins,resophonic's Pictures of the building
process. Supplies and fret slotting service
Andersen Stringed
Instruments
Andreas Guitars This
Austrian company uses aluminium for their solid-body guitars and
basses
Avalon Guitars
Alconda Guitars Guitars with beautiful aluminium body
AfRI-CAN Guitars AfricaÕs first production guitar design and manufacturing company.
Auerswald Instruments Unusual bass guitars
B
Bass Lab Very unusual guitars
from Germany
Robert
Benedetto
Siggi Braun Fine Young
Guitars from Germany
Bachmann Guitars
Italian Luthier
Paddy Burgin Guitars New Zealand
Ken Bebensee Guitars and Basses
Burns Guitars
John S. Bogdanovich Handcrafted concert classical guitars
Tom Bills
C
Cort-Guitars Acoustic and
Electric Guitars
William R.
Cumpiano The co-author of "Guitarmaking: Tradition and
Technology"
Carvin Guitars
Collings Guitars
Michael Collins Guitars
Conklin Guitars Beautiful multi-piece guitars.
D
Dingwall Designer
GuitarsThey build bassguitars with a different scalelength for
each string
Düsenberg Guitars
Daisy Rock Guitars are made for girls
Armin Dreier Gitarrenbau
Frank Deimel Guitarworks
Deerbridge Guitars Martin Wieland from Germany
Dickert Guitars from Canada
E
EVD String Instruments
Eyestone Guitars
Different - But better
Echeverria Guitars Handmade guitars, repairs and parts. Authorized Martin and Fender Warranty
Ellis Guitars from Australia
Ellie Guitars Ellie Erickson doesn't think that the world needs another StratoLesPaulReedSmith clone
Patrick James Eggle Acoustic guitar builder from UK.
Electric Babes from Austria
F
Frank Ford
Charles Fox One of
his great inventions was the "Universal Side
Bender"
Fender This company started the
success of the electric guitar
Fichter E-Kontrabässe/
electric upright basses
Fodera Guitars Inc.
Frank Finocchio
G
James Goodall High
quality guitars from Hawai
Gibson Also home of: Epiphone,
Orange Amplifiers, Dawn, Steinberger, Red Bear, Tobias Guitars,
Dobro
Godin - Guitars
Paul Guy Guitars
Handmade guitars from Sweden. Very informative site
Peter Gropius Konzertgitarren
und Stahlsaitengitarren
Grimes Guitars
Johan Gustavsson Guitars
Greven Guitars
Pete Gosden Acoustic and electric Lapsteel guitars made in England.
Goodfeets Guitars Primitive handmade instruments made from repurposed materials
H
Hoffmann Guitars
Anthony J. Huvard
Handmade guitars and a lot of infos
Harich Guitars Austrian guitar
builder
Hollingworth
Guitars Australian Guitarmaker
Heart Art Guitarmaker from Spain
Nik Huber Guitars Germany
Helliver Guitars Germany
I
Ibanez
J
Paul Jacobson Interesting articles on intonation
Jesselli Guitars His guitars are real beauties!
JP Custom Guitars from Portugal
Johnsen Bass from Germany
K
Kaman Music Makers of Hamer
Guitars, Ovation Guitars, Takamine Guitars, Trace Elliot Amplifiers
and Dean Markley Amplifiers
Steve Klein Guitars
Kritz Custom Guitars Innovative guitars from Belgium
Karosa Guitars Inexpensive Custom Guitars
Kinkade Guitars
Kenya Guitars made in Africa
L
Lakewood Guitars Great
acoustic guitars - made in Germany
Larrivee Guitars Wonderful
shell-inlayed acoustic guitars
Lehle Gitarrentechnik
Umweltfreundliche E-Gitarren aus Deutschland
Lollar Guitars
Launhardt Guitars
Leod Guitars from England
Lichty Guitars
M
C. F. Martin and Company
Official pages. Info,catalog,history...
Linda Manzer
Elio Martina Guitars
Handgebouwde bassen en gitaren Reparatie and customizing / Handmade
basses and guitars Guitar repair & customizing
Hank Mauel Hand Crafted
Guitars
Modulus Guitars Electric
guitars with graphite necks
Andy Manson Luthier from
UK
Dave Maize Acoustic
Guitars
Javier Moldes Guitar builder from Spain
McPherson Guitars
Roger Morillo Bass Guitars from Venezuela
N
Neubauer Guitars I
once had the chance to visit this Austrian Guitarbuilder. He
started as a dental technician and transfered his perfection and
skills to something much larger. His Guitars are perfect in every detail.
National Reso-Phonic Guitars
Nado Guitars Beautiful and unique guitars from Croatia
O
Olson
Guitars
NoahJames Guitars and EvanJohn Pickups
Robert OÕBrien
P
PRS - Paul Reed Smith
Guitars
Pegasus Guitars
JPBasses Basses made in
France
Prochazka Guitars from Czechoslovakia
Philip Porter Guitars from UK
Probett Guitars from UK
R
RainSong Guitars They use graphite for their guitars
Tom Ribbecke
RickenbackerFamous guitars made in California. Very comprehensive site
Steve Ryder Stringed Instruments Electric Mandolins - Finishing/Refinishing - Pickups/Rewinding
Ritter Basses Unique Basses made in Germany
Andreas Rall Sehr gute Information über Tonholzerzeugung
Tim Reede Custom Guitars
John Ray Guitars from Spain
Ruokangas Guitars from Finland
S
Santa Cruz Guitar
Company
Sadowsky Guitars Ltd. Highest
quality Fender-style custom guitars from NYC
Gitarrenbauer Stefan
Sonntag Well made site
The Stick The American Emmet
Chapman invented this special guitar and bass instrument. It is
played by two hand tapping
Schecter Guitars
Ken Smith Good factory
tour
Schramm Guitars
Stratmann-Gitarren
Staufer Guitars
André Waldenmaiers guitar shop in Munich, Germany
Ervin Somogyi
Schack Basses Basses made in Germany using the CNF (Covered Neck Fixing) system.
Scott Wise Guitars Australia
Gerald Sheppard Guitars
Skillett Guitars Germany
Schloff Guitars Germany
Stoll Guitars Germany
Scharpach Guitars from The Netherlands
Swanson Guitars
Shaw Guitars
Segler Gitarren
T
Taylor Guitars Excellent
website. Check out their tech sheets.
Michael Tobias
Fine hand made guitars and basses. Some interesting articles from
Bass Player Magazine
Totem Guitars Very uniqe guitars by Michael S. Spalt
Rick Turner Guitars
Tym Custom Guitars Made in Australia
Tonebender Guitar Works Customguitars by Doug Van Quekelberg
Thorndal - electric guitars and
basses
Timeless Instruments
Tausch Guitars Germany
Joe Till Guitars Handmade in California
Zebulon Turrentine Handmade Classical Guitars
Taisto Guitars
U
V
Vogel Guitars Large
guitar factory in Ecuador
W
Abe Wechter His "Ask The Guitarmaker" is very useful
Ray
Whitaker
Washburn Makers of
Oscar Schmidt String Instruments, Washburn Guitars
Warwick Famous Bass
Guitars made in Germany
Washburn
Winstons Customs
Guitars This Canadian builder makes beautiful guitars
Kathy Wingert Guitars
Wal Basses
Richard Wilson Handmade Weissenborns
Windmill Guitars made in Germany
EMG
Seymour Duncan
DiMarzio
Bartolini
Kent Armstrong
K&K Sound-Systems Pickups
and transducers for any instrument
McIntyre Acoustic
Pickups
Q Tuner pickups Neodymium powered bass and guitar pickups by Erno Zwaan
Hässel Pickups made in Germany
Noll Electronics made in Germany
Voltage Guitar Pickups
Porter Pickups They specialize in hand wound pickups, and wind strat, tele, humbuckers and p-90's.
D'Addario
Thomastik-Infeld
Strings made in Austria and famous all over the world
Ukulele Diner
Welcome and Menu Everything you need to know about the
ukulele
The Online Doublebass
Guide Informations about the double bass, its history and
amplification, tips on pickups, amps and strings. In German and
English.
David C. Hurd- Ukulele Builder in
Hawaii He shares a lot of his building experience. Very
informative and well made site.
Ciro Caliendo Italian violin maker
Acoustic Guitar
Magazine
Gitarre&Bass
Fine
Woodworking
Akustik Gitarre