Re: Guitars etc

> So Steve, are you building guitars, doing repairs or both?  If you are
> building, what types of guitars are you doing?  Solid body electrics?
> Acoustics?  I'm generally curious. Both my collage roomate and I knew Paul
> Reed Smith from St. Mary's College and my roommate has made a couple of
> electrics so far. Mostly Fender copies.  I worked in the library and had
> access to lots of books and had checked out Sloan's book on building acoustic
> dreadnoughts, this was in 1981, and noticed that Paul Reed Smith had checked
> out this book like about 20 times. He made his first electric as an
> independant study project (he was originally a math major) and got graded for
> it.
>
> Eventually bought Sloan's book when it was available again as it was out of
> print for many years. It's a great book with a template and tells you how to
> make your own tools and has a good method for steaming the sides.
>
> Jah

I haven't built any in a couple years and have just been doing repairs. I'm
trying to do repairs and work a full time job to pay bills while my girlfriend
is undergoing treatment. This is why I don't do much BBS work anymore either. A
lot of the tools I have were hand made. I have replaced some of my hand made
tools over the years with professionally made ones but I was taught how to make
them in case I needed one asap.

There are templates for any of the big name guitars. Fenders are really easy to
make and can be ready for paint in a few days. I'd like to get back into
building in the future.


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