Resources
This is a vaguely ordered list of sites that i have found useful when building my first guitar
Blogs
guitar-maker.blogspot.com a UK luthier with 40 years experience gives some great insight and makes beautiful instruments
guitarbuildingpage.blogspot.com an amateur builder but well worth looking at as he gives lots of detail and lots of pitures
home.asparagine.net/ant/blog bit quiet of late but detailed build of a Les Paul style guitar
galileo.spaceports.com/~fishbake/lpc/cvr/cover.htm a home built Les Paul style guitar in clear steps.
www.osborneatelier.com a voyage into home built acoustics and some other slightly random things - like harps
acousticguitarbuild.blogspot.com Another home built acoustic, this one in the kitchen, but some nice touches non-the-less and well documented.
sifiau.wordpress.com fairly current build of a kit acoustic.
chandlerbryan.com Electrics and acoustics, well documented.
guitarz.blogspot.com A selection of the best and, err, most interesting guitars on the net along with some interesting and insightful comment from 3 guys passionate about guitars
buildingtheergonomicguitar.com A blog focused on ergonomic guitars. Interesting, something that i'd really like to get into, but not yet...
www.tdpri.com a post on the a telecaster forum about building a les paul style guitar, loads of pictures, discussion and details.
Dedicated guitar building sites
www.projectguitar.com Loads of stuff a must visit.
www.buildyourguitar.com Author and self taught builder some really useful tips and links to resources
www.kennethmichaelguitars.com Some really interesting articles on tooling.
www.frets.com/FRETSPages/pagelist.html All sorts of stuff
www.bluescreekguitars.com Tutorials, courses and parts somewhere in the US.
pickupedia.info/Main_Page Pickup details, that's it.
www.classicalandflamencoguitars.com/index.htm Loads of info about building classical guitars
www.guitarnuts.comLoads of info about the wiring/screening of guitars
Luthiers
Some sites with less info about building but some pretty guitarswww.ronkirn.com This is probably the exception in this list, here is a very accomplished luthier who has also documented his version of the classic stratocaster and telecasters.
www.sobellinstruments.com Northumberland, UK.
www.jp-guitars.co.uk/index.htm Luthier in Bristol UK.
www.kevinchilcott-luthier.co.uk Some gems if you can pick through the site.
Parts
Retailers of parts, biased towards the UKwww.axesrus.com general parts and some harder to find stuff.
www.manchesterguitartech.co.uk UK supplier of spray lacquer
www.luthierssupplies.co.uk all sorts of luthery supplies
www.touchstonetonewoods.co.uk all sorts of luthery supplies including as the name suggests tone-woods
www.tonetechluthiersupplies.co.uk variety of guitar supplies including tone-woods
www.behlen.co.uk Finishing supplies, lacquer (including spray and water-based)
www.craft-supplies.co.uk General craft supplies with some tone-woods, bindings and stuff.
www.stewmac.com how could i fail to include stewart-macdonald?
www.axetec.co.uk Pups and hardware at quite reasonable prices
www.madinter.com tools and parts with good choice of tone-woods
Fret leveling
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