Construction-Repair

Guitarmaking: Tradition and Technology : A Complete Reference for the Design & Construction of the Steel-String Folk Guitar & the Classical Guitar (Guitar Reference)
 

Guitar Player Repair Guide: How to Set-Up, Maintain, and Repair Electrics and Acoustics
Whether you simply want to maintain your guitar or hot-rod it into a radical new incarnation, this book is the ideal guide. By the columnist of Guitar PlayerÕs popular Repairs & Modifications column, this comprehensive book is a must for any guitarist who needs information on beginning repairs through advance enhancements.

The Guitar Handbook
The Essential Encyclopedia for Every Guitar Player! The Guitar Handbook is the complete guide to playing the guitar - from simple chords to advanced improvisations. Its uniquely devised learning program combines specially commissioned, step -by-step photographs with a chord dictionary containing over 800 easy-to-follow fingerings, and clear, concise text. It is also a comprehensive manual on guitar hardware and performance technology, sound equipment, special effects, and recording facilities. It examines every aspect of guitar maintenance, repair, and customizing, as well as highlighting over 20 world-famous guitarists. 43 pages with full-color photos and illustrations.

Build Your Own Acoustic Guitar: Complete Instructions and Full-Size Plans
Every guitarist dreams of owning a handmade instrument, but for most, the cost is likely to be prohibitive. The alternative - building your own fine guitar - is not as difficult as you might imagine, given some skill, patience, and the expert guidance of a master luthier. Every step of construction is fully covered, from choice, selection, and preparation of woods, to consideration of size, bracing, and tonal qualities. Each step of the building sequence is clearly photographed in color, with variations to the standard design shown to enable you to personalize your instrument as you make it. Briston, England-based Jonathan Kinkead has been building guitars for nearly 30 years. His craft is born out of experience and intuition rather than a strict following of technical detail. The resulting beauty of form and distinctive tone have earned him his reputation as one of the world's most respected independent luthiers.

A Guitarmaker's Canvas: The Inlay Art of Grit Laskin
Grit Laskin has been building guitars for more than 30 years. Among his guitars' many outstanding qualities is their striking inlay art. Laskin is credited with creating a bold new art from the age-old tradition of musical instrument inlay. In his hands, shell, stone, legal ivories, and metals emerge as the palette and brushes of a re-invented medium. This is the first book to document the breadth of his work and the techniques he has devised. 200 color photographs are featured.

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.

D.I.Y Guitar Repair (Compact Reference Library)
Do-it-yourself repair is easy with this money-saving manual for acoustic and electric guitarists. Easy instructions plus 170 diagrams & photos show how to fix loose frets, adjust a bridge, and more.

The Guitar Maker's Workshop
A step–by–step introductory guide to making a classical guitar, now in a revised edition, featuring 160 photos and drawings.
 

The Art of Inlay : Design and Technique for Fine Woodworking
Featuring inspirational pieces by some of today's premier inlay artists, plus concise how-to instructions and illustrations, this is an unsurpassed creative and technical advisor on the dazzling art of inlay. Written by the inlay artist for Hot Tuna, Fleetwood Mac, and other stars, it reveals the art and science behind remarkable inlays on musical instruments and objets d'art. This book is both a celebration of this woodworking art and a hands-on guide to its design, techniques, tools, and unusual materials. This edition of The Art of Inlay features expanded coverage of techniques and design, plus many full-color photos.

The Acoustic Guitar: Adjustment, Care, Maintenance and Repair (Volume I)
 

Guitar Repair: A Manual of Repair for Guitars and Fretted Instruments