Building your first acoustic guitar: Start with a kit and learn how it's constructed! (Rittor Music Mook)

This book is for anyone interested in acoustic guitar maintenance and repair, aspiring to become a guitar builder, or anyone interested in instrument building. Using kits and slightly modified versions, you'll learn how to build an acoustic guitar.

●Contents Basics of Acoustic Guitar Building Acoustic Guitar Structure and the Role of Each Part Ask a Luthier About the Mindset and Key Points for Kit Building! Ryosuke Kobayashi (Ryosuke Kobayashi Guitars) Recommended Wood for First-Time Acoustic Guitar Builders Tools Necessary for Acoustic Guitar Building HOSCO Recommended Kits & Tools Recommended Shops for Purchasing Materials and Parts

●Build an Acoustic Guitar with a DIY Kit! Creating a Simple Mold and Gluing the Sides Gluing the Back Bracing and Sides Creating a New Top to Upgrade Sound Quality! Gluing the Back with an Eye on Adding Binding! The Key to Sound! Gluing the top bracing Finishing the top bracing and preparing to glue the top Gluing the body top and preparing to make the end graft Gluing the end graft and preparing to glue the binding Bending the binding and gluing it to the body! Shaping the binding and preparing to glue the neck Cutting the body and adjusting the dovetail Creating the sound of a COLUMN acoustic guitar Changing the specifications to a bolt-on joint! Installing the truss rod and preparing to glue the fingerboard Gluing the fingerboard and neck Making the nut and saddle and installing and setting up each part Playing the finished guitar!

●Builder Interview Masaaki Shiozaki (M. Shiozaki & Seagull) Hisashi Sakata (Sakata Guitars) Keisuke Nishi (Keystone Stringed Instruments) Kazumitsu Masada (IKKO MASADA GUITARS) Yukihiko Nagasaka (Leaf Instruments)