Building Electric Guitars: How to Make Solid-Body, Hollow-Body and Semi-Acoustic Electric Guitars and Bass Guitars

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 236 pages
• Published by: Koch Verlag
• Edition: 2nd Edition September 1, 2001
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 3901314075
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-3901314070
• Book Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.4 x 0.6 inches
• Weighs: 1 pounds

Book review in issue number 63 of American Lutherie, the quartely journal of The Guild of American Luthiers
"Kochuses the bare basics as a jumping off point, going on to describe electricguitarconstruction in a thorough and orderly manner"

Product Description
Everything from the first steps of design to the final set-up of of solid-body, hollow-body and semi-acoustic electric guitars is covered step by step in this book. It also contains a section about winding your own pickups.

Reader Reviews
Martin Koch has compiled a lot of good information in this book. I haven't seen this much information about electric guitars in any one book. If you are only going to buy one book on electric guitars (why would you, really) this is a good one. He goes into winding pickups, various wiring ideas, and several building techniques. The problem (really the only one) is that the illustrations, while numerous, are quite small and poorly reproduced. You can see what each one is but there were obvious registration and focus problems. It looks like they used digital images of low resolution. The publisher should have taken more care. That said it's not enough to make me regret the purchase. This is a valuable addition to my library.