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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Stanley's Build Your Own Electric Guitar FAQ Response --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have two pretty good books about building your own guitar. Both are available mail-order from Stewart MacDonalds or Warmouth, though I have seen then in better music stores (Elderly in Lansing, MI, and Herb David's here in good old A^2, MI). FYI - StewMac and Carvin carry necks that are ready for you to construct a through-body electric guitar and rumor has it that Warmouth is capable of all sorts of custom work. When you say "build", I assume you mean from scratch, not from a kit or using prefab bodies and necks?... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Build Your Own Electric Guitar by Melvin Hiscock (exact title may be slightly different but the author's name is correct. Poor guy.) The best of the books I own. Real good info (even if the writing and editing is a bit amateurish as well as distinctly British) - from scratch, he builds 3 electrics in that book: 1. Lefty carved-top body with glued-on maple neck with rosewood finger board - painted. 2. Tele copy body with binding and veneer maple face, bolt-on one-piece maple neck - sunburst. 3. Neck-through-body 8 string bass, multiple wood body, maple neck with laminated accent stripes, I think ebony fingerboard - natural oiled finish. In other words, he covers a range of styles so you can get a feel for most options one might consider in the construction of a solid body. And he covers truss rods, neck and bridge angles and their interaction, fingerboards, wood, etc. very well. Plenty-o-pictures. He only lightly covers pickup wiring, you may need another reference (and there are many) to get expertise in that. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Build Your Own Electric Guitar by (Roger?) Siminoff. (again, title may be slightly different but the authors last name is at least phonetically correct... ;-) Decent book, IMHO, not as good as Hiscock's book in technical detail, or in breadth of issues mentioned/covered. Siminoff was the editor of Frets, methinks, for a while, and has a lengthy history in the field as a general luthier. He has several other books on building mandolins, etc. He builds and finishes one electric guitar in the book. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Regards, T P.S. From reading these books, I am actually under the impression that I am capable of building a decent guitar on my own. The books are that dangerous... From lhjr@alex.xs4all.nl Tue Jan 31 10:12:42 1995 Path: zip.eecs.umich.edu!caen!hookup!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sun4nl!hacktic!alex!not-for-mail From: lhjr@alex.xs4all.nl (Lennart Hengstmengel Jr) Date: 29 Jan 95 14:48:48 Newsgroups: alt.guitar Subject: Freq. for 6 guitar strings Message-ID: <e03_9501310602@alex.xs4all.nl> X-FTN-To: - Organization: Alexander BBS / HCC OS/2 gg - +31-10-4565600 & 2201454 Lines: 23 In article , crabbe_dave@novell.burridgec.ns.ca <> wrote: > Any electronic buffs know the frequencies for the 6 guitar > strings. (I'm building a guitar tuner for a friend) E = 82.407 Hz A = 110 Hz D = 146.832 Hz G = 195.998 Hz B = 246.942 Hz e = 329.628 Hz +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | L.M. Hengstmengel Jr | E-Mail: lhjr@alex.xs4all.nl | | Rotterdam, the Netherlands | Fido: 2:500/285.16 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- | Via alex.xs4all.nl - Alexander BBS / HCC OS/2 gg Rotterdam [NL] | FidoNet 2:500/285 - PO Box 8134 - 3009 AC ROTTERDAM | +31-10-4565600 (VFC) - BBS open 08:00 - 00:45 UTC+1 | +31-10-2201454 (VFC) - BBS open 24h | Standard disclaimer: The views of this user are strictly his own.