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Amateur Luthier at Work Building Guitars- Scroll down for seperate tutorials mainly Acoustic
Ampage's Project - ... Ibanez Project - ReFinish ...
Acoustic Guitar Project- A study in the building and sound quality's of an acoustic guitar
Bill Jehle's Jellycastor - A start to finish buldup of a Tele-style kit guitar with his own personal mod's
Bob's Guitar Pages - A site in the works on building an explorer type guitar with plenty of useful tips!
Building an Arch Top Guitar- Here is a description of my home guitar building project by Dave Weimer
BuildYourGuitar.com - Guitar building books and resources
Build your own Bass - A site that takes you completely from concept to finish
Chuck's Hobby-Guitar Building - Acoustical and other stringed instrument construction
Flat Earth Guitars - A Step By Step Restoration of a 1979 Gibson SG++
Frets.com - A site devoted to Acoustic guitars with tons of great tutorials from start to finish *

Gecko Guitars - The build process of the Gecko Hollowcaster
Guide to Guitarbuilding - A site devoted to it's title with CAD downloads available
GuitarAttack - Online solution to build, repair, play and discuss guitars
Guitar Ed - Telecastors One complete, one mostly done, one just starting See what aka Edg is up to.+

Guitar Engineer - Tech info on classical and steel-string guitar research, design, manufacturing.
How to build a Les Paul Style Guitar the "HARD WAY" - The trials and tribulations of John Fisher*****
How to build a Stratocastor Style Guitar the "HARD WAY"
- The trials and tribulations of John Fisher
Ice Fly - Watch Walter build his concept guitar a chamber Iceman/Parker Fly combo
Kathy Matsushita's - Notes from an Amateur Luthier....
Martin Guitar Kit- Step by step construction by Jim Kumorek****
Mike's Project Page - Watch Mike build his custom bass from start to finish along with other projects**
MIMF - Building acoustics, electric's, archtops and more in an open forum discussion.
Ormsby Guitars - Latest Project...Solid Body Electric Guitar+++
PianoDesk.com - Watch Steve building a bass from a piano lid.
Project-Strat - Gary Stirling's site featuring the creation of his own personal Stratocastor +++++
Solid Body Electric Guitar - A day by day project in the works from Ormsby Guitars
S.K. Guitar Specialties - Steven Kersting's site showing a prototype from start to finish ***
SRV Strat Project - Gary's journey in building his own SRV infamous "Number One" 1963
The Making of Mick Box's Ruokangas Duke Custom guitar Pictorial on the creation of a custom
The Guitar Project - Step by step creation of several solid body electric guitars ++++
VDL Guitars - The making of a Relic Stratocastor
Walnut/Cherry Telecaster - By Rich of the Project Guitar Forum

Unique Reference guides to help you on your quest
Tone Reference Library- What woods make what tones ( Tom Anderson Guitars website)

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