Getting Started as a Guitar Maker

How to get started in Lutherie! In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I discuss things like having basic tool skills, learning to sharpen, whether or not you should build from a kit or from scratch, and whether or not you should specialize in acoustic guitars or go broad and build electrics, ukuleles etc...

Recommended books for new builders:
William Cumpiano's "Guitarmaking: an Art and Tradition"
Alex Willis' "Step-by-step Guitar Making"
David Russell Young's "The Steel String Guitar: Construction and Repair"
Jim Williams' "A Guitar Maker's Manual"

Also recommended is a subscription to "American Lutherie" magazine: https://luth.org/journal/
and/or a subscription to
"Guitarmaker" magazine: https://www.asiartisans.org/content/m...

More advanced books for further refinement later on in your Lutherie journey:
Ervin Somogyi's "The Responsive Guitar"
Ervin Somogyi's "Making the Responsive Guitar"

🔴 Register for an 8 day Hands-On Guitar Building Workshop in Bernville, Pennsylvania: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/l...

🔴Check out the online course "Building an OM Acoustic":
https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/c...

🔴Check out the online course: Tru Oil Finishing: A Method for Acoustic Guitar:
https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/c...

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