Guitar Making Plans & Books

In this book, Rob Armstrong makes refretting problems a thing of the past! With just a few tools and a bit of common sense, Rob's instructions will enable you to do a perfectly good refretting job on your guitar. Rob is a highly respected guitar maker who has carried out hundreds of refrets for his clients so he is ideally qualified to guide you in the right direction and to enable you to complete your very own refret to the highest possible standard.

Make Your Own Electric Guitar - Everything you need to know to design and build your own electric guitar is included in its 224 pages. With a forward by Brain May of Queen, over 300 photographs and 100 line drawings it is informative and easy to understand. Chapters include Designing Your Own Guitars, Fretting, Truss Rods, Wood Choice, Electrics and Setting Up and a three guitars are built from scratch through the book with each stage illustrated and described. The new edition also contains information about assembling guitars from component parts, an enlarged wiring chapter and a comprehensive list of suppliers across the world. Many thousands of readers have benefitted from its no-nonsense approach and the book is used as a reference by many guitarists who may never build their own instrument but who desire a greater understanding of their chosen instrument.

Stratocaster Style Guitar Plans - Full plans for constructing & building an Electric Guitar based on the legendary Fender Stratocaster design.

Telecaster style Guitar Plans - Full plans for constructing & building an Electric Guitar based on the legendary Fender Telecaster design

Les Paul style Guitar Plans - Full plans for constructing & building an Electric Guitar based on the legendary Gibson 'Les Paul' design. Notice: Because we buy from different suppliers, the plan shown here may look slightly different to the one you receive. However, all plans contain full information to enable you to create a unique and distinctive instrument.

Gibson SG Style Guitar Plans - Full plans for constructing & building an Electric Guitar based on the legendary Gibson SG design.

Archtop Guitar Plans - Full plans for constructing a Jazz Archtop Guitar

MAC style Guitar Plans - Full plans for constructing a guitar based on an 'MAC' style

Manson (small body) Guitar Plans - Full plans for constructing & building a small bodied Guitar based on a design by Hugh Manson

Classical Guitar Plans - Full plans for constructing & building a Classical Guitar

Precision Bass style Guitar Plans - Full plans for constructing & building an Electric Bass Guitar based on the legendary Fender Precision Bass design

Steel Strung (standard size) Acoustic Guitar Plans - Full plans for constructing & building an Acoustic Guitar. This drawing features detailed specifications for building a Dreadnought guitar, and includes a fret scale chart, profiles for bracing, dimensions for bindings, neck joint details, neck cross-sections and more. Notice: Because we buy from different suppliers, the plan shown here may look slightly different to the one you receive. However, all plans contain full information to enable you to create a unique and distinctive instrument.

Steel Strung (small body) Acoustic Guitar Plans - Full plans for constructing & building a small bodied (Parlour) Acoustic Guitar

Acoustic Bass Guitar Plans - Full plans for constructing & building an Acoustic Bass Guitar

Lute Plans & Instructions - Full plans & instructions for building an authentic English Lute

Related Links:

www.musical-instrument-sales.co.uk - huge stock of guitar & bass parts as well as parts for many other stringed instruments.
www.muzo-trader.org.uk - music trade directory offering news, views and forums.open to public and trade members.
www.arts-studio.co.uk - torquay based music studio providing music tuition, studio tuition and training courses
www.theacademy.uk.com - Edexcel training organisation with various centres located throughout the UK.

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