Backbeat Books, 2006. — 258 p. This indispensable handbook helps players of all levels produce better, more creative, and more varied bass lines. Divided into two sections - Playing Your Bass and Knowing Your Bass - it covers everything from tuning, reading music, scales and chords, and advanced techniques to tips on buying and upgrading a budget bass and troubleshooting. Along...
Hobo Music Works, 2019. — 247 p. In this complete how-to guide, Ben walks builders of Cigar Box Guitars and other homemade instruments through all of the steps of installing frets on their instruments, from basic methods using simple hand tools to more advanced methods using specialty and power tools. Author Ben "Gitty" Baker is the founder of C. B. Gitty Crafter Supply, where...
Voyageur Press, 2012. — 208 p. In the past few years the market for electric guitar kits and parts has exploded. For every two enthusiasts, there are four opinions on how properly to fill woodgrain. In this book, Will Kelly cuts through all that noise and shows how, with a little patience and some inexpensive tools, the average person can turn a modest investment into a...
2nd edition. — Koch Verlag, 2001. — 236 p. 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. "There are many different methods of designing and building an instrument. In this book, I am going to describe...
New York: Sterling/Tamos, 2001. — 95 p. Along with the percussive, driving bass, the electric guitar transformed modern music and created new sonic landscapes. If you dream of being the next Eric Clapton and want a really personalised, top-quality instrument - or if you are a woodworker searching for a satisfying project - make one yourself. These well-detailed instructions for...
September 2008 Completed by Ron Cook for Richard Latker The German Scheitholt has been around in various forms since the 1600s. The earliest known description is from 1614 in Syntagma Musicum II, by Michael Praetorius (see figure below). In it he gave the dimensions of a four stringed instrument with unevenly spaced frets fastened directly to the soundboard. The fret spacing...