steel-string guitarmaking contemporary construction

books:

Custom Guitars: A Complete Guide to Contemporary Handcrafted Guitars
Julie Bergman, Dana Bourgeois, ...

String Letter Publishing, 2000

This beautiful book is a comprehensive guide to the new Golden Age of handcrafted acoustic guitars! Illustrated with full-color photos of custom instruments throughout, this rich resource also contains profiles of top luthiers, advice on buying a custom instrument, and an extensive directory with complete contact information for hundreds of makers. Encompassing steel-string flattops, nylon-strings, resonators and Hawaiians, archtops and more, ...

Guitarmaking **ISBN: 9780811806404**
William R./ Natelson, Jonathan D. Cumpiano

Music Sales Corp, 1994

Guitarmaking Tradition and Technology: A Complete Reference for the Design & Construction of the Steel-String ...

40 reviews
Jonathan D. Solomon, William Cumpiano

Chronicle Books, 1994

Great for first time luthiers
I bought this book because I wanted to build my own Flamenco guitar from one of the many preformed and precut kits out on the market. But after reading it I decided not to go for a preformed kit and build it from a basic kit where I do all the work, that is how much information is in this book. Now don't get me wrong this book won't make you a professional luthier overnight, but it will give you ...