Guitars
For MUSICIANS
- Acoustic guitars in series
- Acoustic guitars hand made
- Guide around and about concert guitars
- New and historic guitar collections
- Workshops how to play Guitar
For LUTHIERS
- My building instructions and tips
- Tonewoods - Tools - Accessories
- Know How for Luthiers
- - Basic knowledge
- - Innovative Guitars
- - Diploma and Master's theses
- - Thomas Ochs' publications
- - Sound figures according to Chladni
- - Mathematics saves a lot of work
For MUSICIANS
Acoustic guitars in series
Reports and recommendations
Acoustic guitars in series
Report | Cort NTL 20 F Western Jumbo (PDF) | Report | Ibanez MASA SX 72 (PDF) | Report | Salvador Cortez SC-205 (PDF) | Recommendation | Concert Guitars under 1000€ (PDF) | Recommendation | Nylon E-Guitars Renaissance (PDF) | Reports | Beginner Guitar HQ for E- A- Guitars |
Classical - Flamenco and Acoustic Guitars
Classic and flamenco guitars: | Two first class Models with Spruce- or Cedar-Top | A. Augustine | Concert & Flamenco Guitars in Spanish Design | Salvador Cortez | German guitar manufacture of the upper class | LaCorda | German guitar manufacture of the upper class | Hanika | Traditional German guitars since 1669 | Hopf | Build very good guitars with nylon strings | Yamaha | Classic and acoustic guitars: | High quality steel string guitars from Germany | Framus/Warwick | Excellent acoustic guitars from Czech Republic | Furch | 25 Years Sound of Magix - Made in Germany | Lakewood | AcousticGuitars since 1833 WorldStandard | Martin & Co | Australian family builds 1A acoustics since 1946 | Maton | Japanese noble brand heard on all stages | Takamine | The guitars with the brute basses | Taylor | Acoustic and e-guitars: | Craft decent guitars from Korea | Cort | The noble electric guitars from Germany | Duesenberg | Stratocaster rightly the No. 1 electric guitar | Fender | The first and with ES the best jazz guitars | Gibson | First class guitar manufacture from Canada | Godin | Traditional innovative guitars from Japan | Ibanez | Paul Reed Smith Guitars 1st Class Guitars | PRS | In all price ranges usable instruments | Yamaha |
Companies that think to build good guitars
and are not listed, we apologize.
We only want to talk about what we know.
Acoustic guitars hand made
Acoustic guitars hand made
Guitarbuilder sortet by Nations | WIKI | Bellucci Guitars from MANGORE from Paraguay | Bellucci | Spanish Guitarbuilder excelent handcrafting | Franzisco Bros | Guitars and Harps from Switz with a difference | Brunner | Guitar master builder in spanish tradition | Brunswicker|Apelt | Traditional Nylons from Hermanos & Camps | Camps | First Class SteelString guitars from Australia | Cole Clark | Sensational archtop guitars from Scotland | Cranmer Guitars | Guitar master builder with MuBu Recommendation | Andreas Cuntz | First Class SteelString guitars from Canada | Greenfield Guitars | Legendary concert Guitars in III. Generation | Hermann Hauser | Guitar maker is looking for the soul of the guitar | Hartmut Hegewald | Argentinian Music -Professor -Teacher & Luthier | Juan Sebastian Keller | Kobler - Guitars Sound as good as they look | Christina Kobler | Young team Classic crafts Tradition | Kraushaar | Luthier fine Classical and Jazz Guitars | Laviolette | Concert guitar refreshingly modern | Paul McGill | Master luthier and qualified restorer | Phillip Neumann | Finest Klassic and Flamenco-Gitares - MuBu TOP | Teodoro Pérez | Historical Replicas Concert Guitar Construction | Klaus Peters | Montero Plazuelo Lopez build only two Models | Plazuelo | Handmade guitars with patented scale | Michael Ruhe | GuitarBuilder for the joy of playing the guitar | Stefan Rössler | Innovative Master Guitars from Japan | Sakurai/Kohno | Hofgitarren Lieferant für John Williams | Smallman & Sons | The Art of Craftsmanship in every Instrument | Stoll Guitars | Master Workshop for Guitar III. Generation | Max Strohmer | Class SteelSting Gittaren from Oulu Finland | Juuso Tornberg | More than just a guitar maker it's worth a look | Peter Tsiorba | Veillette builds nylon-strung electric guitars | Veillette Joe | Voigt Luthier Guitar Master Builder since 1690 | Voigt Luthiers | Guitar maker with excelent modern approaches | Daniel Zucali |
Building instructions - Repair tips - Tonewood
My work
Instruction - Construction report of my III. homemade guitar (PDF)
Instruction - Simple construction help for acoustic guitars (PDF)
Instruction - Construction report of my II. homemade guitar (PDF)
Instruction - Report of an full-acoustic travel guitar (PDF)
Calculation - Frets Distance from saddle and fret width (ODS)
Improvement - Make Guitar Neck slimmer (PDF)
Instructions - 12-hole tying Block easily made by yourself (PDF)
Instructions - Building an acoustic lap steel string guitar (PDF)
Instructions - Construction of a guitar from vegetable boxes (PDF)
Instructions - Strat becomes a Nylon Guitar - Stratylon (PDF)
Invention - Arm rest for small guitars (PDF)
Repair Tip - New fretting almost without tools (PDF)
Tips from other
1A Guitar building instructions from Hannabach | Barmstedter | Shows you how to build your own guitar | Brunner Guitars | Guitar Repairs - gives professional Repair tips | Finger Lakes | Offers good value for all types of Guitar Plans | G_A_L | Plans collection of many well known Guitars | GitarreBassBau | Compressing Fretting to straighten the neck | John F. Hall | Construction plans of the Antonio Torres Guitar | Henrik Jansson | Simply make it yourself - Build interesting guitars | Christian Müller | StewMac Fret Calculator for all Necks | S. MacDonald | StewMac comprehensive repair manuals | S. MacDonald | Build your own guitars with a master builder | Felix Reuter | Easy Plus construction course - 10 days guitar | Schär Baukurs | The Glambfmbasdler - Builds first class guitars | Eduard Schielein | Home-made projects of a very special kind | LM Splettstoesser | Patent 1921 von T. McHugh for the "truss rod" | WIKIPEDIA |
Andreas Niegel deals with SteelStrings Stimmt so ...
Tonewood - Tools & Accesoires
Tonewoods & more around guitar building - MuBu 1 | Maderas Barber | Woods from all over the world since 100 years | Timber Cropp | More than a tool - Tell us about themself | DICTUM | SolidWoodProducts for instruments and more | Espen | Drawings and stencils around guitar building | Gitabou | MassivHolz - Many woods exactly sawn - MuBu 1 | Frank Horschig | Selected tonewoods since over 125 years | Kollitz | The Tonewood Catalog - Quality & Tradition since 1890 | Kollitz | Tonewood for stringed and plucked instruments | Andreas Sandner | High quality tools for woodworking - MuBu 1 | Dieter Schmid | Precious wood from all over the world | Frank Schröter | High-quality kits and corresponding tools | StewMac | Tonewood but mainly for build electric guitars | Zuschnitte24 |
New and historic guitar collections
Worcshop and its historical Guitar archive | Bernd Kresse | Journey to the German percussion Guitar | Stefan Lob | Historical Guitar Collection and Knowledge | Weissgerber | A other collection of historical Guitars | Die Zupfgeige |
WorkShops how to play guitar
Stroke technique of the Rumba-Flamenco | Marc Berestovoy | Bluesguitartube - Free lessons in the blog | Christoph Fässler | FingerStyle WorkShop at it's best | Ulli Bögershausen | Notes and TAB's for the workshop found here | Ulli Bögershausen | Audios & Videos Information about the new book | Bernd Brümmer | Beat patterns made easy many listening examples | Bernd Brümmer | Class A concept - connects books & forum | Bernd Brümmer | Flamenco - much knowledge at first hand | Ruben Diaz | Comprehensive information about scales | Matt. Ia Eklundh | fingerpicking.net a view over the Alps | fingerpicking | Innovative Guitar School on the Internet | Guitar-TV | Guitar Player TV with Guitarists and Keyboarder | GuitarPlayer | BluesLessons Your place to learn the Blues | Dirk Hagemann | Guitar school with good music examples | Jürg Hochweber | Die p(r)ima Gitarrenschule not only for beginners | Katja Hoder | Die p(r)ima Gitarrenschule 64 Videos to the book | Katja Hoder | Learning how to play guitar | jam_play | Learning the guitar through competence and fun | Mike Jastrow | Redifining how to learn music | Jellynote | Learn to play Guitar online - Video courses | Ernst Jochmus | The Talking Hands Collection | Just Chords | Guitar School Classical Guitar with Sheet Music | Hubert Käppel | Blog and lots of videos to learn guitar | Johannes Knechtges | 35 teaching Videos - Flamenco Guitar and dance | La Sonata | Musidation - gives you "LebensfreudeMusik" | G. Lindinger | Guitar Institute professionally teaches guitar | Georg Norberg | Top prepared chord handle table | Georg Norberg | 10 Compendiums that will take you further | Georg Norberg | A Guitar School with internet connection | R. Pomaska | Remarkably mature guitar instructional work | Gerhard Raabe | Fun String melody for beginners | Michael Schmolke | Guitar teacher in Wien she show us how it works | Sandra Sherman | Hey! Whats Up!? - Much lessons for free | Marty Schwartz | Interesting facts about Guitar playing practice | René Senn | Play Jazz Guitar gives good Tips | Chris Standring | Planet Guitar lots of guitar and more | Hansi Tietgen | A practical guitar textbook | WIKI Book |
WORKSHOP-INSIDES and BUILDING-REPORTS
Fully acoustic travel guitar made entirely by hand | Breit Peter | I'll show you the construction of my II. guitar | Breit Peter | I'll show you the construction of my III. guitar | Breit Peter | Spanish master guitar builder shows his craft | Bros Franzisco | USA guitar builder with fantastic ideas | Burls Art | An building report Bass from colored pencils | Burls Art | Construction report of six-string lapsteel guitars | Ceglinski Stan | Australian manufacturer builds proper guitars | Clark Cole | The Soulful Art of a Flamenco Guitar | Conde Maria | ConVivo a Spanish-style concert guitar | ConVivo | The video shows the construction of a harp | Coral Willi | Cranmer Scotland - Reinventing the guitar | Cranmer | Nice how he builds the kora from his hand | Diarra Abou | Show us how to build a concert ukulele | Dicks Rowan | Five episodes about building a Gypsy guitar | Dujic Marco | Production of flamenco guitars 1 and 2 | Eliasson Anders | In five videos we see detailed cello construction | Fasser Filippo | He builds himself a baritone guitar | Glambfmbasdler | We see guitar making in a manufactory | Godin Canada | Gerold Karl Hannabach 1928 - 2015+ | Hannabach G. K. | Workshop description from Lakewood Haus intern | Lakewood | Martin Seeliger CEO of Lakewood on YouTube | - Martin Seeliger | Shows us the construction of his violins | Lisius Brian | We see the construction of a revolving lyre | Loureiro César | Australian steelstring guitar maker - Part 1 | Maton I. | Australian steelstring guitar maker - Part 2 | Maton II. | Maton shows us her guitar making in 15 lessons | Maton Aus | A construction report that needs no words | Meij Bert van | Mrs. Meinel shows us the construction of her zithers | Meinel Ulrike | His eighth guitar! that he has already built | Mueller Chris | Building the 20,000' anniversary Reso-Phonic guitar | National Guitars | The Perez family shows us how guitars are made | Perez Teodoro | The Pöllmann family shows us their BassBau | Pöllmann E. M. | 29 videos show the construction of his mandolin | Ratliff Aubrey | SWC shows us how simple it is to build a CGB | S W C | Fredless electric bass made by hand | Safr Filip | Three impressive restoration videos | Schmidt T. & L. | In four videos we see the construction of a lute | Titmus Clive | 2 brothers show us how they build harp guitars | Tonedevil |
For LUTHIERS
My building instructions and tips
Instructions - Building report of my III. (PDF)
Instructions - Building report of my  II. (PDF)
Instructions - Building report of my   I. (PDF)
Instructions - Simple construction aid for acoustic guitars (PDF)
Instructions - 12-hole knotting block - easy to make yourself (PDF)
Instructions - Building an acoustic lap steel string guitar (PDF)
Instructions - Building a concert guitar from vegetable crates (PDF)
Instructions - Stratocaster becomes a nylon guitar - Stratylon (PDF)
Calculation - Frets distance from nut and fret width (ODS)
Invention - Armrest for small guitars (PDF)
Invention - The country needs functioning tuning cranks (PDF)
Reparatur - Re-bundling with minimal tool effort (PDF)
Improvement - Make guitar neck slimmer - Very simple (PDF)
Tips from other
My building instructions and tips
Instructions - Building report of my  II. (PDF)
Instructions - Building report of my   I. (PDF)
Instructions - Simple construction aid for acoustic guitars (PDF)
Instructions - 12-hole knotting block - easy to make yourself (PDF)
Instructions - Building an acoustic lap steel string guitar (PDF)
Instructions - Building a concert guitar from vegetable crates (PDF)
Instructions - Stratocaster becomes a nylon guitar - Stratylon (PDF)
Calculation - Frets distance from nut and fret width (ODS)
Invention - Armrest for small guitars (PDF)
Invention - The country needs functioning tuning cranks (PDF)
Reparatur - Re-bundling with minimal tool effort (PDF)
Improvement - Make guitar neck slimmer - Very simple (PDF)
Tips from other
1A lesson guitar building instructions | Barmstedter | Shows you how to build your own guitar | Brunner Guitars | Guitar Repairs - gives professional repair tips | Finger Lakes | Offers inexpensive guitar building plans | G_A_L | PlansCollection of many well-known guitars | GitarreBassBau | Compressing fretting to straighten the neck | John F. Hall | Construction of the classic Antonio Torres guitar | Henrik Jansson | 360° rotatable guitar neck - 3 guitars in one | Mattias Krantz | Incredible Instrument ideas in his YT channel | Mattias Krantz | Simply make it yourself - Build interesting guitars | Christian Müller | StewMac Fret Calculator for all necks | StewMac | StewMac comprehensive repair instructions | StewMac | Build guitars yourself with a master craftsman | Felix Reuter | Easy Plus building course - your own guitar in 10 days | Schär Baukurs | The Glambfmbasdler - Builds first-class guitars | Eduard Schielein | DIY projects of a very special kind | LM Splettstoesser | Patent 1921 by T. McHugh for a "truss rod" | WIKIPEDIA |
Tonewood - Tools - Accessoires
Tonewoods
Tonewoods
Tonewoods and things to do with guitar making - 1 | Maderas Barber | Precious woods from all over the world for 100 years | Timber Cropp | Solid wood products for instruments and more | Espen | 1A modelling wood and precise cuts - 1 | Frank Horschig | Selected tonewoods for over 125 years | Fritz Kollitz | Tonewood catalogue - quality & tradition since 1890 | Fritz Kollitz | Instrument making - Tone - Precious and tonewoods | Nebelheim | Tonewood for string and plucked instruments | A. Sandner | Precious woods trade from all over the world | Frank Schröter | German tonewood for electric guitars | TonholzShop | Tone music wood mainly for electric guitars | Zuschnitte24 |
Tools & Accessories
Instrument surface sealing specialist - 1 | CONTURA | Good special tools unfortunately at horrendous prices | DICTUM | Drawings & templates for building electric guitars | Gitabou | Templates for measuring the grip board radius | Pickguardian | Well-stocked shop not only for guitar builders What's going on? Wrong measurements, wrong deliveries, sloppy work. | Rall Guitars | Wood sealant for interior use Monocoat | Rubio | High-quality tools for woodworking - 1 | Dieter Schmid | Kit for classical guitar from Kollwit | Stegmiller-online | High-quality kits and corresponding tools | StewMac |
Know How for Luthiers:
For dedicated guitar developers who don't just build an instrument,
but actively participate in the further development of the instrument!
Benno Streu - probably the most comprehensive guitar connoisseur -
explains the top (the most important part) of a concert guitar !
Benno analyzes an original Torres guitar in this video
Basic knowledge
For dedicated guitar developers who don't just build an instrument, but actively participate in the further development of the instrument!
Benno Streu - probably the most comprehensive guitar connoisseur -
explains the top (the most important part) of a concert guitar !
Benno analyzes an original Torres guitar in this video
Basic knowledge
Suspended Bracing System (TM) - Great idea! | Boulder Creek | European woods for instrument making PDF | M. B. Brandstätter | Barmstedt lessons in guitar making PDF | Brunswicker-Apelt | The bridge - designs and mode of operation | Achim-Peter Gropius | Paul Guy's and the "True Temperament" | Guy Guitars | Further information - see at the bottom | ISIGL | Sound differences between lute and classical guitar | Liuto Forte | Play the guitar cleanly without squeaking | Mehner.Info | Air humidity and guitars a problemCase | Musik Produktiv | Saddle - bridge inlay - bridge - from STIMMT SO | Andreas Niegel | Everything is relative, even the concert pitch | OrchesterGraben | Wood gluing guide - by Aiden Green | Resign Expert | How to polish shellac - for those who need it | Felix Reuter | Restorer for plucked instruments | Heidi von Rüden | Patented scale length of his guitars | Michael Ruhe | Japan. Guitar maker tests tops YouTube | Masaki Sakurai | Intonation the stepchild of the guitar | Karl Sandvoß | Development of new strings and saddles PDF | Karl Sandvoß | Sharpening scraper blades - Feine Werkzeuge | Dieter Schmid | Intonation of guitars is a solvable problem | Schwingenstein | Classic Guitar Construction - onEPDFX PDF | Irving Sloane | The sound hole and its significance for the sound | Stollguitars | Error when tuning - Magister PDF | Robert Winkler | Physics of the electric guitar - TextCollection PDF | Dr.-Ing. M. Zollner |
Innovative Guitars
Of course, the two greatest innovations in the development
of the concert guitar were those of Torres and Stauffer.
Since then, however not really added much in the way of
construction and sound.
That is changing ...
Classic design according to Torres with new bracing | Peter Breit | Builds an electric guitar from 700 pages of newsprint | Burls Art | 1A guitars with bodies made from hemp & water ! | Canna Guitars | Building a 3D acooustic guitar body | - Building report | Canna concert guitar - First improvisations | - Canna Classic | Peter Finger tests the Canna SteelString | - Peter Finger | Free-swinging floating guitar top ! | Cranmer | Interesting body/ceiling design of a hybrid | Gitara Maker | Round guitar neck allows 3 guitars in one | Krantz Mattias | EUROPA model - Super sound ! - Excelent optics ! | Kraushaar | Builds guitars according to Kasha - shows the beam plan | Eban Gila | Design according to Dr. Michael Kasha - Diploma PDF ! | Ochs Thomas |
Diploma and Master's theses
Vibrations of acoustic guitars PDF | Helmut Fleischer | The acoustics of steel-string guitars PDF | Ra Inta | Analysis and resynthesis of the guitar sound PDF | Dirk Jagdmann | Building a classical guitar with double back PDF | Choi Moonseok | Restoration of classical guitars PDF | Phillip Neumann | Acoustic holography - radiation characteristics PDF | Jan Richter | Aspects of the guitar sound PDF | Angela Waltner |
Thomas Ochs' publications
We would like to thank Mr. Ochs for his detailed work!
PUBLICATIONS from luthiers & designers THOMAS OCHS
- Innovative guitar making - Guitar design according to Prof. Dr. Kasha
- Historic guitars - Johann Georg Stauffer - Wien ca. 1830
- Historic guitars - Jacob August Otto - Weimar 1796
- Historic guitars - Johann Gottlieb Knößig - Leipzig 1807
- Historic guitars - Christoph Ehrlich - Description 2 guitars
- Historic guitars - Richard Jacob Weißgerber - Model Record
At the bottom of his page you will find these other topics:
- Model Kasha Doubletop
- Ochs Model One Unique - Elegant - Modern
- Stauffer Legnani Model
- Woods in guitar making
- Research on historical guitars and acoustics
- Acoustic guitars - Steelstrings
Sound figures according to Chladni
Sound figures according to Chladni
Chladnische Sound figures & Kirchhoff theory | Cosmos Indirekt | Sound figures according to E.F.F.Chladni - Uni Bremen | Dr. Andreas Henke | Visible vibration behavior of panels | TU Braunschweig | Standing waves in plane plates - Lecture | Uni Ulm | Experiments with sound figures of oscillating surfaces | J. G. Voigt | Sounds for the eye - The sound figures of Chladni | Uli Wahl | Chladnian sound figures - sand patterns on plates | Wikipedia |
Mathematics saves a lot of work
The WIKIs provide an extensive introduction.
Mathe makes Music - Uni Augsburg PDF | Maria Reichle | Bessel-Funktion - Definition of natural oscillations | Wikipedia | Helmholtz-Resonator - an acoustic sound space | Wikipedia | Laplace-Operator - Description of phys. fields | Wikipedia | Plate theory - Method for describing panels | Wikipedia | String oscillations - Fundamental vibration and overtones | Wikipedia | Oscillations - Fluctuation of state variables | Wikipedia |
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