A Guitar Maker's Manual
by Jim Williams
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Author: Jim WilliamsBrand: Hal Leonard
Edition: Plastic Comb
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1987-04-01
ISBN: 0958907501
Number of pages: 112
Model: 183286
Publisher: Hal Leonard
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- Published by Hal Leonard 112 Pages
- by Jim Williams
- Author: Jim Williams
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Book Review: Got it for the Florentine Cutaway
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the best illustrated Guitar building books. I have most of them on the market from the the early Irving Sloan ones and A.E. Overholzer (now an out of print classic)books. I purchased this for the section on fitting a Florentine Cutaway. I had a good laugh as the Florentine Cutaway section references other building steps in other parts of the book for example step "S. Refer to step AF from the Assemble chapter." It is very stepwise and logically arranged. Unlike many other guitar building books that feel like they jump around or give too much information in a chapter.
For example his book has the fitting rosette steps before build the bracing. Often times this process has it own chapter but the new builder (like me was never sure) because it is never states when this needs to occur stepwise in the process of building your guitar. Other books often have this over engineered and make it sound too complicated. For those of us who are ADHD and tend to jump around like me. This book is very logically and I recommend it as an excellent check list book to go with William R. Cumpiano & Jon D. Natelson's book Guitar making Tradition and technology book.
After getting this book, I felt able and confident to start building my first acoustic guitar, after having had the materials, supplies and plans since the mid 1990's.
Summary of A Guitar Maker's Manual
Written by one of Australia's foremost luthiers, this manual is a straightforward, profusely illustrated guide to constructing nylon-string classical and steel-string guitars. Includes a useful section on creating the jigs necessary to make the job easier and more accurate, along with full size template diagrams to assist in cutting out and marking the body shape and soundboard bracing patterns. A Guitar Maker's Manual lists all of the materials needed, where to get them and what problems to look out for during the construction.Theater Books
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