Luthierie Resources
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Photographs
of guitars, completed and during construction
- Building a steel-string acoustic guitar:
a pictorial voyage through the construction of a guitar (well, several,
actually). Describes and illustrates the approach I use to build
acoustic instruments.
- PDF version: the webpages above collected into a single document (many thanks to Joe Papa for putting this together)
- Note: the document is big (~30 MB) because of all the pictures, so may take a while to download.
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Color
Rosette Applet
For acoustic guitar soundhole mosaic rosette design; due to Java applet
security restrictions, doesn't permit saving of designs. Color Rosette
Application (available through Luthierie Software link) is identical, but
permits saving and printing of designs
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Luthierie
software (Macintosh and Java)
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Arched
Workboards, a short piece on constructing and using arched workboards
for flat-top guitar construction
- The Long Compass, a short piece on making and using this tool for drawing arcs of circles of large radii.
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Time study Excel spreadsheet: gives a detailed list of construction steps
and their completion times for construction of steel-stringed acoustic
guitars
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Arc parameter calculation Excel spreadsheet: relates the span, center deflection
(rise) and radius of a circular arc, and automatically calculates any one
of the three if the other two are given
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Arc
parameter calculation Java applet: relates the span, center deflection
(rise) and radius of a circular arc, and automatically calculates any one
of the three if the other two are given. (Note: requires Java 1.1-enabled
web browser!)
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Fret positions Excel spreadsheet: given a fretboard scale length, automatically
computes the fret locations, giving distances from the nut
Comments or questions? To send an e-mail message, click here:
jsevy@cs.drexel.edu