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A straight line along the centerline of the fingerboard should fall exactly 34 over the top of the body at the location of the bridge. Tom is also the author of the guitar making bookdvd set the art of lutherie published by mel bay, and has written for and been featured in may publications both in print and online as well as several television and film spots. Correct structural repair can vastly increase the tone, appearance and value of your instrument, and our precision setups can make playing infinitely more comfortable, accurate, and sonorous. If you think that making a guitar is impossible, then this book is for you.
Here is my first archtop build, i have been doing solid bodies for the past 10 years or so. Make sure to say you wanted them printed on a2 paper except for maccaferri and archtop which are on a1 paper. We celebrate the archtop as the pinnacle of this art. The archtop guitar is often credited to orville gibson, whose innovative designs led to the formation of the gibson mandolinguitar mfg. I know of no other work offering comprehensive step by step coverage of the making of an acoustic jazz. I really liked the idea but in the end it seemed like more of a pain than the trouble was worth. Tom bills has been hand crafting one of a kind custom guitars for the top players and collectors around the world since 1998. If you just want to make some functional knockoff of an existing guitar, you might want to buy a different book. Sep 14, 2015 this roundhole archtop takes its name from the concept of phior the golden ratio, 1. Building a custom telecaster inspired by the 1950 fender broadcaster how to diy duration. Making an archtop guitar benedetto pdf 12 alernisso. Now you can learn from a true master, bob benedetto, renowned jazz guitar craftsman. I recently read that in order to establish a good contact between the top of the guitar and the feet of the bridge, the feet should be carved hollow, so that only the edges or rims of the feet are touching the top.
Making an archtop guitar this highly rated book by famed builder robert bendetto takes you through all the steps and stages to building your own archtop guitar. The plan is to build an archtop guitar and a guitarshaped octave mandolin gom side by side. The definitive work on the design and construction of an acoustic archtop guitar by one of the most talented luthiers of the twentieth century. Making an archtop guitar is beautifully laid out, with supporting photographs and technical illustrations, plus. About custom archtop guitar luthiers fine archtops.
This video details everything from joining and carving the top, to bending the sides and shaping. A masterpiece instrument and a player with killer chops demand an excellent recording setup, which is exactly what we created for archtop. I placed the neck in the body and measured how far it needed to set down on top of the body to accomplish this. Archtop guitar pickup accessories pdf manual download. The archtop guitar is often credited to orville gibson, whose innovative designs led to the formation of the gibson mandolin guitar mfg.
Eventually i got down to cases though, and tapered the fretboard on the. A stepbystep look at how an archtop guitar is crafted. His 1898 patent for a mandolin, which was also applicable to guitars according to the specifications, was intended to enhance power and quality of tone. Acoustic archtop guitar bracing bob benedetto the art. The definitive work on the design and construction of an acoustic archtop guitar, this updated second edition features 288 pages of content, including 24 color pages and 4 tearouts. I will be posting a new chapter every week or so from now through the end of the year to allow you to more easily read and enjoy it online and to see some of the many photos and other media that we were not able to include in the printed version.
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If pdf printing is not available in your area, you can have them printed at very low cost and posted to you in any country. For one guitar it was about 14, and for the other it was about 38. Unlike shreddage 2, and using custommodified electronics, the neck and bridge pickups of the guitar were recorded simultaneously. Were showing the birth of a new guitar for the phoenix guitar company, that well call the baby phoenix. Acoustic archtop guitar bracing bob benedetto the art of. Building an archtop guitar gibson l5 from bob benedettos book. I have been a collector and player of archtop guitars for more than forty years. Nov 20, 2016 building a custom telecaster inspired by the 1950 fender broadcaster how to diy duration.
The only one of its kind, this book will teach you how to make a laminated archtop. His 1898 patent for a mandolin, which was also applicable to guitars according to the specifications, was intended to. Soon after, he published fullscale blueprints of a benedetto 17 archtop guitar. In 1992 benedetto became the first ever to offer an archtop guitar making course. Well spare you the building of the mold and the workboard, and jump in as we get the top and back glued up and carved.