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

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Product Details
  • Paperback: 236 pages
  • Publisher: Koch Verlag; 2 edition (September 1, 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 3901314075
  • ISBN-13: 978-3901314070
  • Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.4 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars 12 customer reviews (12 customer reviews)
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Martin Koch sent the following post to customers who purchased Building Electric Guitars: How to Make Solid-Body, Hollow-Body and Semi-Acoustic Electric Guitars and Bass Guitars
  

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7:11 AM PDT, April 21, 2007, updated at 7:28 AM PDT, April 21, 2007
To all readers of "Building Electric Guitars",
Until recently "Building Electric Guitars" was printed with slightly unsatisfactory photo quality. Now I'm very pleased to announce that as of March 2007 halftone printing quality has been improved. The book is still black and white only, and it probably never will be in color since as a self-publishing author the use of Chinese printing presses is beyond my possibilities (just in case you are wondering how full-color books can cost so little these days…). "Building Electric Guitars" is printed in the USA and provides answers to the main questions anyone will have when starting to building their first (then second, and then third …) electric guitar. Don't say you haven't been warned: guitarbuilding can be addictive!

If you have any comments or questions on the book, please feel free to contact me via e-mail; you'll find the address in the book.
Thanks for buying "Building Electric Guitars"!

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