Guitar Making Kits
Making a classical guitar is a huge project that has many stages. Typically each stage builds on the previous one increasing the risk as you go. The further along you are the more serious a mistake becomes. This is something I know from experience. Every aspect of the guitar making process relies on how accurate the up front work was such as the work boards, templates and molds. Care must be taken to build these necessary components accurately. Building the number of templates, molds and work boards needed will take time, and, if you are using MD, you will be creating a lot of unhealthy dust. To maximize your results, and minimize your up front work, J.S. Bogdanovich Guitars offers a number of guitar making kits designed to get you started building faster and more accurately.
These guitar making kits let you get started at whatever level you like. From the master guitar making kit, which includes almost everything you'll need to get started right away and follow along with the Guitar Making DVD box set, to the templates and molds kit which is a solid foundation to begin making your solera and guitar. You select how much of the up front work you would like done for you with ultimate accuracy.
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The Guitar Making Master Kits
The master guitar making kits includes everything you need to make guitar and follow along with the 10-DVD Guitar Making box set right from the beginning except the wood for the guitar. There is a guitar making master kit that includes the DVD box set, and one that does not for anyone that already has the DVD box set. Not everyone has the shop capacity or machine capability to construct some of the necessary components like the solera, molds and templates. Even if you do these components will easily take more than a month to construct and if you are using mdf for its economical value you will also be producing lots of unhealthy dust. Since these components have been made on a CNC machine for ultimate accuracy you will get your guitar making project off on the right foot and start making the guitar right away.
The guitar making master kit includes the solera kit, which comes with 4mm hardwood maple veneer covering a 3/4" MDF substrate shaped to accept the rims, a set of assembled and drilled solera rims, assembly hardware, and upper and lower bout patch wood. The kits also includes the complete template set (4 templates) and molds set (2 molds), the rosette cutting router attachment, the tuning machine drilling jig, the fret leveling kit, and free radius sticks. From here you can pick it up right from the beginning of the DVD finishing the solera. The price of these kits have been discounted almost $100 compared with purchasing these items separately. These kits are in 650 mm scale length only. All the items in the master kit may also be used to construct the guitar in the book. The guitar making master kit is also availble without the dvd.
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Classical Guitar Making DVD, Templates and Molds Kit
The classical guitar making dvd, templates and mold kits contains the guitar making 10-dvd box set as well as the complete template and mold sets. The amount of time saved in making these templates and molds alone make this classical guitar making kit a bargain.
Both the template set and the set molds have been produced on a CNC machine for precision accuracy which will help prevent errors, assure symmetry where needed, and help make your guitar building experience more enjoyable. This kits will make following along with the dvd easier and you will be able to begin right away. This kit is available in 650mm scale length only.
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Classical Guitar Solera Kit
Without a band saw capable of re-sawing hardwood stock 9" in width, or some kind of veneer press to glue the veneer to the substrate, making a dependable solera base of this type may be impossible. Making the base properly is a lot of work. Even I you have all this equipment it will take a long time.
This kit includes the 3/4" MDF substrate shaped to accept the solera rims and capped on both sides with 4mm hardwood veneer for stability and durability, pre-drilled solera rims, softwood patches for the upper and lower bouts, and hardware. Its everything you need to follow right along with the DVD. This solera kit may be used to make either the guitar in the book or the DVD box set.
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Classical Guitar plans, Acetates, Templates & Molds Kit (Book)
In order to put the guitar plans in the book they had to fit on the page. Therefore they had to be reduced in size. The publisher indicated in the book the percentage of expansion necessary to get the plans to full size. Expanding in this manner is highly inaccurate and lead to problems for readers. This prompted me to put together a set of full size plans in a CAD program. These plans laid the foundation for the templates and molds.
At readers requests a 640 scale length version of the plans, acetates, templates and molds were also added. The same design that was used in "Making Classical Guitar" was scaled down to 640mm and templates and molds were again created from these plans. This guitar making kit is available in both 650 and 640mm scale lengths.
