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How to Make A Classical Guitar
by W. J. Wasielewski

Concise, precise soft bound book covering every aspect on the topic. Included are three sheets of plans and a guide to altering them to build a flamenco guitar.

Price: $18.50

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Part Number: 106
Guitar Fret Position Calculator
by Brian Johnson

A full scale plan for positioning frets on guitar fingerboards.

Price: $5.00

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Part Number: 136
Manual of Guitar Technology
by Franz Jahnel

This 230 page soft cover reprint is the definitive encyclopedia of guitar construction, history and repair. Includes a catalog of 309 wood types, an incredible list of glues, 18 design plans and much more.

Price: $79.95

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Part Number: 146
The Electric Guitar Makers Guide
by H.E. Brown

Instructions with the beginning electric guitar maker in mind. This 27 page step-by-step construction format is adequately supplemented with sketches, detailed drawings and schematics.

The text explains how to use this graph to produces hundreds of scales for guitar, banjo, mandolin, uke and other fretted instruments.

Price: $5.95

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Part Number: 381
The Martin Book
by Walter Carter

A history of Martin Guitars, presented in a hard cover with 108 pages and 130 color photos of historic and modern instruments. Specifications are provided for virtually every Martin model produced up to 1994. Fascinating musical and manufacturing lore, relating the story of the company's founding and development.

Price: $29.95

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Part Number: 406
Guitar Making, Tradition & Technology
by William R. Cumpiano & Jonathan D. Natelson

A compete reference for the design and the construction of the steel string guitar and the classical guitar. This soft bound book has 400 pages with nearly 400 illustrations and photos and more than 100 line drawings.

Price: $35.00

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Part Number: 438
The Guitar Maker's Workshop
by Rik Middleton

This 160 page step-by-step introductory guide to making a classical guitar is logically structured and clearly written. It provides the reader with complete instruction on materials and tools, the making of each component, and the assembly procedure. There are helpful photographs and drawings throughout with topics covering; making tools, innovative methods of construction, advanced techniques and repair work.

Price: $42.95

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Part Number: 442
Making Master Guitars
by Ray Courtnall

This large 330 page hard-cover features the guitars of Antonio de Torres, Fleta, Bouchet, Ramirez, Romanillos and other great makers in detail. The 27 chapters and a wealth of details make this book an asset to the library of the luthier and aficionado alike. Many Illustrations.

First published in 1979 and re-issued in 1990, this large format 200 page book is crammed with photos, covering the nineteenth century through the 1970's. A nicely presented work, full of useful information.

Price: $29.95

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  Part Number: 464
Making An Archtop Guitar
by Robert Benedetto

This soft cover book in English text offers comprehensive step by step coverage of the making of an acoustic jazz guitar starting with selection of raw materials and following through to marketing the finished product. For the craftsman wanting to build archtop guitars the text, photos and diagrams provide the most explicit instructions available anywhere.

Price: $45.95

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Part Number: 471
A Guitar Maker's Manual
by Jim Williams

A soft-cover guide to the construction of steel and nylon string acoustic guitars, with excellent photos for each stage of construction. The 104 page manual includes diagrams of tools, fixtures and clamps, and explains lacquer finishing and French polishing. A packet of full-size templates for both steel and nylon string guitars is bound into the book.

Price: $24.95

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  Part Number: 485
THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN GUITAR
by Tony Bacon

Here is the story of over 150 years of American guitar history told through an exceptional collection of over 300 rare instruments, and all photographed in stunning detail. More than 75 brandnames are represented including Bigsby, Danelectro, Ditson, Dobro, Dyer, Epiphone, Gretsch, Kay Maccaferri, Micro-Frets, Mosrite, Oahu, Ovation, Regal, Rickenbacker, Stella, Stromberg, Taylor, Vega, Washburn, Wilkanowski and many more.

Price: $35.95

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Part Number: 486
MAKE YOUR OWN ELECTRIC GUITAR AND BASS
by Dennis Warring & David Raymond

Besides quality of production (it's printed entirely on heavy paper stock and features full-color
photos throughout), it excels in the simplicity of its presentation: the instructions are logical and well detailed, and they promote use of common tools and easily acquired materials. In addition, the authors, both craftsmen and musicians, include methodology for constructing an electric bass guitar, which differs in degree from a six-string guitar and is usually not covered in books of this nature.  Paperback with 96 pages.