FREE BUILD YOUR OWN ACOUSTIC GUITAR: COMPLETE INSTRUCTIONS AND FULL-SIZE PLANS PDF Jonathan Kinkead | 160 pages | 01 Mar 2004 | Hal Leonard Corporation | 9780634054631 | English | Milwaukee, United States Build Your Own Acoustic Guitar Complete Instructions and Full Size Plans - AbeBooks Goodreads helps Build Your Own Acoustic Guitar: Complete Instructions and Full-Size Plans keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Jonathan Kinkead. Every guitarist dreams of owning a handmade instrument, but for most, the cost is likely to be prohibitive. The alternative - building your own fine guitar - is not as difficult as you might imagine, given some skill, patience, and the expert guidance of a master luthier. Every step of construction is fully covered, from choice, selection, and preparation of woods, to cons Every guitarist dreams of owning a handmade instrument, but for most, the cost is likely to be prohibitive. Every step of construction is fully covered, from choice, selection, and preparation of woods, to consideration of size, bracing, and tonal qualities. Each step of the building sequence is clearly photographed in color, with variations to the standard design shown to enable you to personalize your instrument as you make it. Briston, England-based Jonathan Kinkead has been building guitars for nearly 30 years. His craft is born out of experience and intuition rather than a strict following of technical detail. Build Your Own Acoustic Guitar: Complete Instructions and Full-Size Plans resulting beauty of form and distinctive tone have earned him his reputation as one of the world's most respected independent luthiers. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. More Details Original Title. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Sep 04, Dan rated it really liked it. First off the good points: it includes a lot of details about every part of an acoustic Build Your Own Acoustic Guitar: Complete Instructions and Full-Size Plans, and includes a life sized set of plans this is important because what you'll be doing is tracing or gluing a copy of it to plywood to take to your bandsaw for your templates. So, that's pretty cool. Add to that the fact that it covers literally everything, and you are well on your way to get it started. So why did I give it four stars? Well, the one drawback I see for this book is the plans are too comprehensive. It's nice to have all kinds of beautiful inlays, and bindings, and rosettes, but for my very first acoustic guitar I'm not going to do much for any of those. That is where I feel this book falls down a bit. If you're already an experience woodworker, you might see some of the little details as a realistic challenge, but I think it's just overkill for an absolute beginner. Just stick with very basic bindings, and focus on mastering building an instrument first before you start hand cutting your own fretboard inlays. Additionally, as an existing woodworker, a lot of the techniques are very clear to me, but I think they could be better explained. Also, there's certain places you can take shortcuts buying a soundboard pre-sanded to thickness, buying sides that are already bent. If you have a woodshop, you won't mind doing some of these tasks, but for Build Your Own Acoustic Guitar: Complete Instructions and Full-Size Plans beginners you'd be better off buying an acoustic kit from stew mac they do most of the woodworking like cutting frets, thicknessing, and bending sides and assembling based on that. I feel like the book could have pointed htis out better. Build Your Own Acoustic Guitar: Complete Instructions and Full-Size Plans, if you have a phone-a-friend woodworker who is willing to mentor you a bit, this is a very, very, doable project. Mar 18, Mike rated it it was amazing Shelves: music. Near the perfect book for guitar makers or those interested in making one. Has a detailed plan of a guitar with it, and the pictures really help explain each process. Highly recommended. Feb 15, Michael rated it really liked it. This book has great pictures of the process and is a helpful reference along the way. 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Readers also enjoyed. Goodreads is hiring! If you like books and love to build cool products, we may be looking for you. About Andy Manson. Andy Manson. Books by Andy Manson. Related Articles. Read more No trivia or quizzes yet. Welcome back. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Building an Acoustic Guitar : 19 Steps (with Pictures) - Instructables As with any new project I've attempted, each step along the way is unfamiliar to me and some steps are deserving of my apprehension, while others equally as worrisome turned out to be a piece of cake. This project is a learning experience. How well the guitar will play and sound, I will not know until some time after I have finished. For photos of my two most recent guitars AND a description of the material costs you can expect IF you try a project like this:. The first task was to decide what to use for reference material. I selected that book after reading about a few others on Amazon but my purchase was rather impulsive. It walks the reader through building a style of guitar similar to the Martin OM orchestra modelwhich is a smaller guitar with a more body. The book includes lots of photos and even full scale plans, which are handy, but, while sufficient, lacks information I need. The next task, which was the source of some consternation, was to select the wood to use for the body of the guitar. The book recommends specific wood, Sitka Spruce for the top and Rosewood for the back and sides. I, being the rebel, didn't want to do that, so I chose different wood. I chose Western Red "Sinker" Cedar for the top or sound board as it is called and Claro Walnut for the sides and back. I purchased both from suppliers on E-bay. The Cedar top is supposed to create a "warm" sound. I don't really Build Your Own Acoustic Guitar: Complete Instructions and Full-Size Plans what that means but that didn't seem like a bad thing to me. Build Your Own Acoustic Guitar: Complete Instructions and Full-Size Plans idea appealed to me. Claro Walnut is highly figured walnut from the American Northwest. Time to dive in. The sound board and back wood arrived, each in two pieces that needed to be joined together. It is desirable to minimize the visibility of the glue line, so the edge of the wood needed to be trimmed flat and even to make them fit tightly together. My book recommended using a block plane. I used sand paper, clamped to a flat surface with a long right angle block of wood also clamped to that surface to complete this job. My thought was that if I ran the edge of each piece of wood back and forth on the sand paper and along the block of wood, the edge would end up flat. Once the glue was set after a day, it was time to make the sound board and back the proper thickness. I decided I could get the wood to the proper thickness by hand sanding. My book suggested 2. With rubber cement adhesive, I attached a piece of 80 grit sand paper on a flat piece of 8X10 inch plywood onto which I fastened a crude handle. I placed the wood to be sanded loosely between two long blocks of wood clamped on to my flat surface. At the ends of the wood, to keep it in place while I pushed and pulled the sanding block, I clamped a thin piece of wood on one end and aluminum yard stick on the other.