Web Links
Please note: inclusion or exclusion does not necessarily constitute a SIMSCal recommendation or lack thereof.
ARTICLES, PLANS, JIGS, COOL LUTHERIE SITES, ETC.
- French Polishing - Hands-
on tutorial by Orville and Robert Milburn of Milburn Guitars - How to Install Bindings -
StewMac intro to bindings and purflings - Radiused Form Calculator -
Thanks to Artak Kalantarian - Jig to Cut Neck Scarf Joint on Table Saw -
Courtesy of Kathy Matsushita/Peter Licis - Kathy Matsushita's "Amatuer Lutherie" Page -
Neat lady...interesting site! - Download Full-
Size Plans for an 1864 Torres Guitar - Courtesy of Neil Ostberg - PowerPoint presentation with tips for photographing guitars (right-click to save file to your desktop): Photographing Guitars
- SIMSCal member Bob Reselman YouTube video on neck carving: Neck Carving
SIMSCal GUITAR BUILDING CLASS REFERENCE HANDOUTS
- Steel String Bracing -
courtesy of Larry McCutcheon - Alternative Finishing -
courtesy of Larry McCutcheon
LUTHERIE RESOURCES AND SUPPLIERS
Guitar Making Supplies:
- Luthiers Merchantile International, Inc.
- Stewart MacDonald's Guitar Shop Supply
- Allied Lutherie
- Custom Inlay
- Karin-
Rost Wooden Inlays, rosettes, purfling, etc. - Guitar Jigs.com molds and radius forms
- International Luthiers Supply
- Luthier Suppliers Centerline finder, raduis dishes
- Leonard Musical Instruments Inlay supplies and materials
- DePaule Supply Inlay material
- IvorySeller.com Legal estate ivory.
- Elena Dal Cortivo Parchment Rosettes
- Guitar Plans Historical Guitar Plans. UK
- David Dyke's Luthier Supply UK
- Aerospace Composite Products Nomex,Carbon Fiber, and other compsite materials
- Amber Alchemy Amber resins and varnishes.
- Resophonic Outfitters Parts and accesories for resophonic guitars
- Specialized Balsa Great source for balsa wood. Large slesction of various density balsa.
- Dymondwood AKA Pakkawood. New alternative to ebony. Used by Rick Turner
Tuners, Cases, Strings...and Other Things
- Alessi Tuning Machines Italy
- Ameritage Cases
- Calton Cases
- Elderly Music Plans, cases
- Fernandez Music French polish supplies, videos, cases
- Gilbert Tuners
- Just Strings strings
- Rogers Tuning Machines
- SKB Cases
- Strings By Mail strings and accessories
- TKL cases
- Undercover Cases
- Wood Finish Supply French polish supplies, Behlen products
- Shellac Finishes French Polishing supplies -
dewaxed shellacs, how- to DVD
Tonewood Suppliers:
USA
- Adirondack Spruce Adirondack Spruce Supplier.
- Alaska Specialty Woods Sitka Spruce specialists
- Allied Lutherie
- Colonial Tonewoods
- Eisenbrand Exotic Woods Torrance, CA. USA
- Exotic Woods Co. Top/back/neck woods,fretboards, bone
- F Group Industries
- Gilmer Wood
- Guitarwoods.net
- Hibdon Hardwood Wholesaler. Great source for Spanish Cedar and Honduras Mahogany neck wood.
- Luthiers Merchantile International, Inc.
- Northridge Hardwoods
- Notable Woods
- Oregon Wild Wood Nice selection of figured tonewoods -
Koa, Myrtle, Maple, Ebony, Walnut - Paracho Del Norte
- Tropical Exotic Hardwoods of Latin America
- RC Tonewoods
- Vikwood
Canada
Spain
Germany
- GermanSpruce.com Specialists in Master grade German Spruce.
Switzerland
- Tonewood Switzerland Specialists in European Spruce "Moonwood"
Belgium
- Laboratorio di Liuteria Antica Tonewoods naturally seasoned Italian Spruce and Bosnian Maple.
Australia
- Tasmanian Tonewoods "Exotic High Figured Tone Woods & Burls a Speciality" -
worldwide shipping
Woodworking Tools and Supplies:
- Garrett Wade Tools Lie-
Nielson planes. Woodworking, home and garden tools. - Hida Tool and Hardware Japanese hand tools
- Lee Valley Tools LTD Veritas tools
- LuthierTOOL Company LLC Neck angle jigs, binding rabbet cutters, headstock slotting jigs, rosette cutter, CNC tools
- McFeely's
- The Japan Woodworker Japanese hand tools
- The Peck Tool Company Fine German and Japanese tools.
- Rockler Woodworking tools and supplies. Orange County home for regular SIMSCal meetings.
- ToolOrbit Discounted prices on woodworking routers, tables, and router accessories.
- Traditional Woodworker Woodworking hand tools
- Woodcraft Woodworking tools and supplies. Orange County home for SIMSCal guitarmaking classes.