(Part 2) Top products from r/Luthier
We found 21 product mentions on r/Luthier. We ranked the 241 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
21. Building Electric Guitars: How to Make Solid-Body, Hollow-Body and Semi-Acoustic Electric Guitars and Bass Guitars
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
22. Making Master Guitars
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Robert Hale Company
23. Setup And Repair of the Double Bass for Optimum Sound: A Manual for Players, Makers, And Repairers
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
24. Guitar Electronics for Musicians
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
With Guitar Electronics for Musicians, you'll learn what you want to know, and more, about guitar electronics and pickupsIt covers design concepts and the practical details of the hardware used & made by guitar manufacturers all over the worldBy Donald Brosnac128 pages
25. Making an Archtop Guitar
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Definitive Work on the Design and Construction of an Acoustic ArchtopAll Aspects of Construction to Marketing Your Finished WorkList of Suppliers to Acquire all the Tools and MaterialsFull-Color Plates Featuring the Author's Models279 Pages
26. Understanding Wood Finishing: How to Select and Apply the Right Finish (Fox Chapel Publishing) Practical & Comprehensive with Over 300 Color Photos and 40 Reference Tables & Troubleshooting Guides
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Latest technical updates on materials and techniques on wood finishingOver 300 color photos that help you distinguish between products, make decisions, and solve problemsMore than 40 must-have reference tables and troubleshooting guides, and much more310 pages softcoverISBN- 978-0875967349
27. Piano: The Making of a Steinway Concert Grand
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
28. The New Wood Finishing Book, Revised Edition
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
29. The Fender Book: A Complete History of Fender Electric Guitars
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
30. Guitar Repair: A Manual of Repair for Guitars and Fretted Instruments (Bold strummer guitar series)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
35. The Mandolin Project: A Workshop Guide to Building Mandolins
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Graham McDonald Stringed Instruments
36. Guitar Amplifier Handbook
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
"Softcover 240 pages Size: 11"" x 8-1/2"" Author: Dave Hunter ISBN: 087930863X"24 pages"Size: 11"" x 8-1/2"""Author: Dave HunterISBN: 8793863X
37. Lutherie Tools Making Hand and Power Tools for String Instrument Building
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
If you're interested in jazz guitar get Robert Benedetto's Making an Archtop guitar. I think that's one of the best written guitar making books out there. On sound/tone I'd recommend reading articles by Dana Bourgeois at http://www.pantheonguitars.com/ (under tonewoods and voicing). For techniques I definitely recommend reading through Frank Ford's articles at http://www.frets.com/FRETSPages/pagelist.html#Luthier
I have a copy of this book: [Lutherie Tools] (http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0962644706) which shows how to make your own tools.
You will of course need some tools to make other tools, but you can get pretty far and end up with most of what you need while learning some valuable skills along the way.
If you're talking about violins then this one, co-written by two English makers, is excellent. For bass (upright) the best one I know of is this one by Chuck Traeger. If you're talking about guitars, then I have nothing to offer, sorry.
+1 to Cumpiano for a basic guitar building bible.
Melvyn Hiscock's book is a pretty straight-forward no-nonsense book about building acoustics, but it's a little unconventional and it contains some opinions about structural mechanics that aren't really supported by, um, the known laws of physics. But it's also the only DIY book I know of that covers 12-string building.
How does design affect sound? Try Left Brain Lutherie if you're good at math and have a bit of an engineering background (and Air Columns & Tone Holes as supplemental reading to learn a bit more about the resonant properties of a body of air (aka the space inside your guitar)), or Ervin Somogyi's books if you feel like reading and digesting about 700 pages of essays on guitar building.
Check out Dave Hunter's amp book.
I actually built the amp in the back of the book from a kit supplied by Mojotone and it was very insightful.
Sites like AX84 are useful, as well.
And as always, be very careful. The voltages in guitar amps can kill.
Good luck.
This book goes into great detail about how guitars respond to certain changes. It's also very expensive, so maybe you can find it in your local library. I haven't read the book, but I've seen videos detailing it's contents on youtube and it looked very interesting.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Responsive-Guitar-Ervin-Somogyi/dp/0982320701/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1342335103&sr=8-2&keywords=the+responsive+guitar
Guitar Repair, A Manual of Repair for Guitars and Fretted Instruments by Irving Sloane is a book that's been invaluable to me. You can pick one up cheap if you dig for an older paperback version. It's mostly for acoustic instruments, but it has great pictures, diagrams, and instructions for many things that would be applicable to building an electric: fretting, joints, releasing glue to fix screw ups, neck angle adjustment, etc.
I bought this book 15 years ago and still go back to it. It explains all aspects of guitar wiring, right down to pickup construction.
Well worth getting, you won't be disappointed:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Guitar-Electronics-Musicians-Reference/dp/0711902321
The only part of this I can add to is where to get the plans; you need this: http://www.amazon.com/Make-Double-Bass-Harry-Wake/dp/0960704868. I used Harry Wake's book on violins to make mine, and it gave me everything I needed to know. Seriously.
I've never built a bass, but if this book is anything like the one I used to build a violin (without having another one to check against) then this is all you'll need in this department.
You might enjoy this book on the making and history of Steinway pianos. It's not a guide to building one, but it gives a broad overview of the processes involved.
I started in the late 90's when I did not have internet access at home so these were my resources....
The Guitar Handbook - https://www.amazon.com/Guitar-Handbook-Ralph-Denyer/dp/0679742751
Constructing a Solidbody Guitar Roger Siminhoff - https://www.amazon.com/Constructing-Solid-Body-Guitar-Complete-Technical/dp/0881884510
And I saw how Leo did it in "The Fender book" - https://www.amazon.com/Fender-Book-Complete-History-Electric/dp/0879302593/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1473794173&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Fender+Book
That and watching a lot of episodes of "The New Yankee Workshop" and seeing how I could apply that knowledge to building a guitar.
This one?
I believe there are some books that aim to introduce electronics to guitarists and musicians. I found this one with a cursory search.
My recommendation is Building Electric Guitars by Martin Koch
I'm not sure how much information there is directly about tap tuning, but you could look at getting the Romanillos book and/or the Courtnall book
A more unknown resource is the Bouchet workshop diary though this is in French.
Nitro is a pain in the ass to work with. Look into synthetic finishes if this is your first experience with finishing. The New Wood Finishing Books is an excellent resource on general finishing and explains the pros and cons of different finishes.