Reddit reviews Build Your Own Acoustic Guitar: Complete Instructions and Full-Size Plans

This book is really great for beginners. Step by step building. Includes plans. Lots of color photos throughout.

As first woodworking projects go, you're picking a very big and complex build.

My recommendation would be to either start with kits and work your way towards acoustic non-kit, or go to a luthier school. Even to just get some general carpentry courses under your belt first, so you're familiar with the tools and general safety stuff.

If you're hell-bent on doing it all yourself, then I don't even know where to start to help you. You at the very least need a good stable of hand wood working tools. Thickness sander would be helpful, but that's in the $1500 range alone (for a start, absolute minimum sized one). Belt sander, table saw, and bandsaw are all absolutely necessary (though if you can only afford 2, make them the belt sander & bandsaw). Planes of all different sizes. Clamps - you can never have too many. Chisels. A go-deck clamping system. Fret files, hammer, & slotting tool of some kind (I use my table saw with a fretting blade).

It's a big ask, and there is no simple answer, even just for tools alone. I've heard good things about this book, but haven't checked it out myself:

http://www.amazon.ca/Build-Your-Own-Acoustic-Guitar/dp/0634054635

Heres one, and two.

All good recommendations. I'd also suggest these are worth a look, even if you're building an electric rather than acoustic:

Kinkead's 'Build your own acoustic guitar'

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Build-Your-Own-Acoustic-Guitar/dp/0634054635

and Blishen's 'The Steel String Guitar'

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Acoustic-Guitar-Making-Steel-String/dp/1847973744/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=nick+blishen&qid=1563977881&s=books&sr=1-1

http://acousticguitarbuild.blogspot.com/

http://www.amazon.com/Build-Your-Own-Acoustic-Guitar/dp/0634054635

http://acousticguitar.com/everything-youve-always-wanted-to-know-about-diy-guitar-kits/

Excellent Stuff by Ervin Somogyi

The Responsive Guitar

Voicing the Guitar DVD

Older but still Excellent
Guitarmaking: Tradition and Technology

Basically a step by step for a steel string
Build Your Own Acoustic Guitar: Complete Instructions and Full-Size Plans

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Like you I had lots of woodworking experience and decided to delve into building an acoustic guitar. This is the first book I bought and used it to build my #1.

http://www.amazon.com/Build-Your-Own-Acoustic-Guitar/dp/0634054635

I also spent a lot of time just browsing forums and other sites.

• http://www.luthiersforum.com/
  
• http://www.liutaiomottola.com/
  
• http://home.comcast.net/~kathymatsushita/
  
• http://edge.cs.drexel.edu/GICL/people/sevy/luthierie/guitarmaking_guide/building_flattop.html
  
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