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3.0 out of 5 stars
For The Experienced Woodworker Only, April 9 2002
I'm starting my second electric guitar project, and so recently re-read my copy of this book.Roger Siminoff gives a fine overview of solidbody electric guitar building, but glosses over some of the issues. For example, while much time is spent on showing how to do a handrubbed sunburst finish, the entire wiring and pickup installation steps take up merely a few paragraphs, and little if any space is given to instrument setup or adjustment - Tasks that some of Dan Erlewine's wonderful books take *entire chapters* to describe. Also, it's clear that Roger's shop contains all of the heavy-duty tools (large drill press, planer-joiner, bench-mounted buffing wheel, etc) that a guitar or woodworking pro might have, but little or no explanation is given on how one without a shop full of industrial-strength woodworking gear might accomplish the same tasks. It's almost as if Siminoff knows how to build instruments so well that much of what a beginning instrument builder might like to know is second nature to him, and so got left out of the work.
Even with those caveats, this is a good overview of "from scratch" guitar construction - Siminoff writes in a simple, clear style, there are plenty of black-and-white photos of the crucial steps, and an added bonus are the full size plans for a Les Paul style guitar - Siminoff says in the book that he deliberately designed the body to be slightly narrower than a Gibson Les Paul so that the plan could be drawn to fit the book.
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