Info Overview For the Luthier General Information: The Guitar & Ukulele Construction Guide has been in the works for several years now. The book is packed with guitar and ukulele building instruction to help you build your instrument quicker, more accurately, and with confidence and proper detail. Whether you are a first time builder or have a few instrument builds under your belt, this book will benefit you greatly in the art of how to make a guitar or ukulele of your dreams! We are now introducing an updated and expanded version of the original book with even more information, tips and tricks to give you a better experience. Here are some of the additions: More information on Slotted Headstocks for acoustic guitars.Enhanced detail for wood binding construction and installation.More detailed information of linings and info on hand-placed lining blocks.ZipFlex abalone strip installation.Much more information for fret installation, both bound and unbound fretboards.Section added on Glued-In FretsAdditional Information added for acoustic guitar bridge installationSections added on fitting the nut, nut details and much more.Section Added on The Construction Process - Step by Step Order. This section gives you a logical order in the building process.Section Added on "Sample Dreadnought Plans" Shows an example of a typical set of guitar plans you will receive from GLS. (note these plans are not full resolution). Overview: The Guitar & Ukulele Construction Guide takes you through all of the steps from selecting wood, assembling the proper tools and fixtures, and also includes the fine details on installation of braces, bending sides, installing kerfing, blocks, and much, much more. It also provides recommendations of tools you'll need when starting out, as well as jigs, clamps and just about everything you'll need to build your acoustic or classical guitar or ukelele with ease! Unlike most eBooks that give you a hundred pages of double-spaced text with large-type text just designed to fill up the pages, our book is packed with tons of instrument building information, as well as lots of illustrations and photos of the actual guitar building process. For The Luthier: When used with our detailed guitar building plans, this guide is the perfect instruction manual and will answer all the questions you have about making a stringed instrument. Also included with the eBook is a comprehensive Glossary to define most of the terminology used in lutherie, which can be somewhat confusing to the beginning builder. The page samples shown here, list the chapters in the eBook as well as a several select sample pages to give you a feeling of what is contained in this manual. If you are purchasing a plan, be sure to put one of these books in your cart too. Get started the right way because there's nothing more irritating than ruining expensive wood, and wasting time!
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