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Ultimate Guitar Building, which is the blog spin-off from Ultimate Guitar OnLine, will help you through the entire guitar planning, building and question process. We will be updating this site very frequently and providing you with a stream of new information for your every guitar making need. If we don’t have the answer, and I certainly don’t claim to know all there is to know about guitar building, we will find out for you and there will certainly be very experienced luthiers willing to lend a helping hand.

Look for posts on tools for guitar making, methods, how-to’s, tips and techniques. We really desire you input here as well and this is the reason for this blog format – to engage in direct discussions with our readers.

So be sure to visit us often and check out the latest and greatest content for guitar building on the internet. If it has to do with guitar building, we will cover it. If we don’t, tell us about it so we can.

How To Find The Article You Want:
Blogs can be kind of confusing as to how to find just the article or subject matter you are interested in. I have made the process much simpler on this blog. You can always click on the Table of Contents Tab at the top of every article and find the subject and article clearly listed. Another way is to use the Search our Guitar Sites in the box on the right side of each page.

Here is what Richard Sanchez said after receiving our plans:
“The PDF I received states that Ultimate Guitar OnLine plans on publishing an ebook on guitar construction in the near future. Of the six plans I’ve recently reviewed, your plan is by far the most comprehensive. Please let me know when your ebook will be available!”

Check Out The Plan Shop
The best place to start with your guitar building dreams is with a great quality plan. As an architect, I know the importance that is placed on a detailed, accurate plan. Be sure to visit our Plan Shop, where we will be featuring all of our guitar plans, side bender plans, gluing jig plans and just about everything you will need to make those most important shop aids. Oh – and yes, this is where we will have our free plans for a lot of our specialized tools that we talk about in the articles – so check it out as we will be adding items here all of the time.

David,
Ultimate Guitar Building.

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• 24 July 2010 : Fret Miter Box Jig (No Comments)
  

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• 22 July 2010 : Classical Guitar Plans – Bouchet (No Comments)
  

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• 20 July 2010 : Fitting The Acoustic Guitar Neck (No Comments)
  

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• 18 July 2010 : Kerfing Cutting Jig: (No Comments)
  

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• 16 July 2010 : Fixed Neck Reinforcement – Installation (No Comments)
  

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• 15 July 2010 : Fixed Neck Reinforcement (No Comments)
  

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• 12 July 2010 : Adjustable Truss Rod – Installation (No Comments)
  

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• 10 July 2010 : 20 Inch Scroll Saw (No Comments)
  

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• 8 July 2010 : Guitar Fretboard Radius (No Comments)
  

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• 6 July 2010 : Fretboard Thickness (No Comments)
  

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