ibanez_crazy Posted October 7, 2005 Report Share Posted October 7, 2005 Havent found a magazine dealing with building or modding guitars. Am I missing something? There are magazines for walking, weddings, photography, blah blah blah. I figure there has to be some publication available for luthiers(or wannabees) Flipping through the stew mac catalague just isnt cutting it anymore Anyone with any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZoSo_Spencer Posted October 7, 2005 Report Share Posted October 7, 2005 (edited) there are alot of books floating around such as; Build Your Own Electric Guitar by Melvyn Hiscock - highly recommended Constructing a Solid-Body Guitar, Roger Siminoff these books and a few others can be found in the link below.... Books thats one of the many places where you could probobally find these books. i know theres alot of other books but i dont know where you can buy them in u.s.a hope thats what you were after... Edited October 7, 2005 by ZoSo_Spencer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ibanez_crazy Posted October 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2005 I have melvyns book and kochs book. Siminoffs book isnt very specific on anything you can get from the other two, but i read it anyways. I was looking for a magazine, either bi monthly or quartlery. Thanks, but not exactly what Im lookin for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhoads56 Posted October 8, 2005 Report Share Posted October 8, 2005 join one of the societies to gettheir monthly/quarterly/whatever newsletter/magazines Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattia Posted October 8, 2005 Report Share Posted October 8, 2005 Only 'magazines' I know of are ASIA's Guitarmaker and the Guild of American Luthier's quarterly publication. Both are heavily baised towards acoustic instruments, though, has to be said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitarfrenzy Posted October 8, 2005 Report Share Posted October 8, 2005 At one time I think Brian was going to publish a Project Guitar magazine. It would be neat, but I'm not sure if there if a big enough market for such a magazine. It would have to be done just for the fun of it, as it probably wouldn't be a big money maker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGGR Posted October 8, 2005 Report Share Posted October 8, 2005 Who needs a magazine when you have the internet??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapbarstrat Posted October 9, 2005 Report Share Posted October 9, 2005 It was a cool guitar repair/building newsletter for about 3 years (1988- 1990): http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v398/soa...t/SIC_2_1_d.jpg Actually a little "subdivision" of 'Guitar Player' magazine, up to a point, when GP ownership changed hands and then the newsletter was on it's own. It didn't last long after that, and instead of getting issue #15, I got an issue of Asia's 'Guitar Maker' magazine, which I was not impressed with. The 'String Instrument Craftsman' newsletter had been "absorbed" by 'Guitarmaker', but in order to continue getting the GM mag, you had to pay more money, which I wasn't willing to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitarfrenzy Posted October 9, 2005 Report Share Posted October 9, 2005 Very neat Soap, never heard of that newsletter. Did you get most of them when they was in print? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapbarstrat Posted October 9, 2005 Report Share Posted October 9, 2005 I have all of them. I was broke when I first heard of it, in my early 20's. I couldn't afford a subscription, so what I did was write an article for the newsletter, which they paid me something like $36.00 for, and then I used that to buy the subscription and some of the back-issues, so I'd have them all. It sucked when it went out of business. Those were the good old days, when you had to wait at least 2 months to learn any new info. The good thing about that was you could apply what you had already learned while waiting. I find internet info to leave so many "loose ends" on info, that it's a little too overwhelming. Plus "weeding through" the internet to find good info, oh man, that's quite a chore. I'm the guy always looking for answers that hardly anyone can give, or willing to give, so it's especially hard for me But, maybe ' Guitar Player Repair guide' is like the bible of guitar repair. Stew-Mac's 'Trade Secrets' is another 'must have'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitarfrenzy Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 But, maybe ' Guitar Player Repair guide' is like the bible of guitar repair. Stew-Mac's 'Trade Secrets' is another 'must have'. ← Yes, I agree with that being one of the best repair books ever. I read it so much that the cover fell off, and all the pages are about to fall out also, but I still go back and read it regularly. Could I get some donations to buy me a new one.. haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapbarstrat Posted October 13, 2005 Report Share Posted October 13, 2005 You can fix that book. You need to use a thin coat of wood glue along the edge and glue a thin piece of cardboard there that will keep all the pages held together, the same as how the book was made in the first place. You could probably tape the cover back on too, like I had to do with my 'Groove Tube amp book ' They make guitar repair books like that on purpose, so you experiment with repair skills on the book itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitarfrenzy Posted October 13, 2005 Report Share Posted October 13, 2005 You can fix that book. You need to use a thin coat of wood glue along the edge and glue a thin piece of cardboard there that will keep all the pages held together, the same as how the book was made in the first place. You could probably tape the cover back on too, like I had to do with my 'Groove Tube amp book ' They make guitar repair books like that on purpose, so you experiment with repair skills on the book itself. ← haha.. but the only problem is that they didn't have a chapter on fixing broken books in it, plus I just chunked the cover in the trash when it fell off, so it's going to be hard to put the cover back on.. lol I'll take that as a no on the donation... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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