Good building book

[Moobox]

Hello all. Local guy (South Africa) is getting himself a buitar made by a builder in USA. This has made me pretty keen to get this done for myself but I have decided to do some research to begin with and I want to read up on building a guitar. Suggest to me a good book please.

[SteveS]

This one...

[jarfly]

Definitely the top one that most people are going to suggest. I'm happy with what I did buying a very complete book such as that one and also buying a book with specific plans for building ONE design. Cumpiano's book is very thurough and gives you several ideas of how to do different things.

[martinedwards]

cumpiano is EXCELLENT and should be among the first three books you buy.

I go back to it regularly, just for a read and a look at the pics!!

Jonathan Kinkeads is good too, with some different ways of doing things and a full size set of plans.......



I've got these two as well, both pretty good for classical & archtop respectively...........

[arie]

I have these:

http://www.amazon.com/Guitar-Repair-.../dp/0525120025
imo there is no better way to build something better then to first find out how to repair one.


http://www.amazon.com/Guitarmaking-T...2032549&sr=1-1
pretty much a must have and really good if you don't have a lot of tooling and have plenty of time.



http://www.amazon.com/Build-Your-Own...2032653&sr=1-3
good also, nice color photos and a different viewpoint on building and finishing. comes with a blue print too.


http://www.amazon.com/Guitar-Player-...3&sr=1-1-spell
another must have. esp. the set-up features.

http://www.frets.com
frank is a master and his site is a book in itself -also available on cd

go through this site and look at the build threads and the factory tour photos. also do some you-tube research.

good luck

[smyrnagc]

To some this is the Bible of guitar building...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=STRK:MEWAX:IT

The Steel String Guitar by David Russel Young