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Step By Step Guitar Making: Full-Size Plans Enclosed
Straightorward guide shows you how to make an acoustic guitar with ease.
144 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2007
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April 30, 2013
This isn't a complete guide and whoever edited it missed out on a bunch of spelling and grammar errors.
The author over complicates the technical process with fancy wording.
One whole paragraph could probably be reduced to a single sentence.
Though not useless it, it provides a step in the door but you really have to get the other leg in on your own from experience.
The author sometimes cops out saying from time to time, "Beyond the scope of this book."
You can take notes and reword it to your own liking but the photographs really are what will clarify whats going on there.
There is a one page glossary at the back but it is limited. The author sometimes uses different terms to describe the same thing.
This sort of reads like a first draft that got published too early.
The author also assumes you have wood working experience too, and doesn't comment on what you should or shouldn't be paying for certain tools, equipment, glues, lumber...etc...
Basically you can end up spending hundreds if not thousands of dollars on tools alone.
Also doesn't help that the website at the end no longer exists.
If you do plan on really doing it double check with a local luthier or a supplier to make sure everything checks out with what is written.
You're gonna need a lot of clamps!
The author over complicates the technical process with fancy wording.
One whole paragraph could probably be reduced to a single sentence.
Though not useless it, it provides a step in the door but you really have to get the other leg in on your own from experience.
The author sometimes cops out saying from time to time, "Beyond the scope of this book."
You can take notes and reword it to your own liking but the photographs really are what will clarify whats going on there.
There is a one page glossary at the back but it is limited. The author sometimes uses different terms to describe the same thing.
This sort of reads like a first draft that got published too early.
The author also assumes you have wood working experience too, and doesn't comment on what you should or shouldn't be paying for certain tools, equipment, glues, lumber...etc...
Basically you can end up spending hundreds if not thousands of dollars on tools alone.
Also doesn't help that the website at the end no longer exists.
If you do plan on really doing it double check with a local luthier or a supplier to make sure everything checks out with what is written.
You're gonna need a lot of clamps!
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