Wood, Tools, & Supplies for the Guitar Builder


Mostly Wood


Instrument Kits

Electric Guitar Kits

Nylon String Guitar Kits

Other Stringed Kits

Steel String Guitar Kits


Tops - Tonewood

Nomex

Adirondack (Red) Spruce

Alaskan Yellow Cedar

Archtop Guitar tops

Archtop Mandolin Tops

Bearclaw Soundboards

Engelmann Spruce

European Spruce and Carpathian Spruce

Mahogany

Mandolin/Ukulele/Small Instrument Flattops

Port Orford Cedar

Redwood

Sitka Spruce

Violin Tops

Western Redcedar

Environmentally Certified


Backs and Sides

Sample Woods

African Blackwood

Amazon Rosewood

Archtop Guitar Back & Side Sets

Archtop Mandolin Back & Side Sets

Black Acacia

Bloodwood

Bocote

Bubinga - African Rosewood

Bubinga Special High Figure

Camatillo Rosewood

Canadian Cypress/Alaskan Yellow Cedar

Cherry, American

Cocobolo

Curly Spanish Cedar

East Indian Rosewood/Palisander

European Pear

Goncalo Alves

Granadillo

Honduran Rosewood

Jarrah

Kauri

Koa

Lacewood

Macacauba

Macassar Ebony

Machiche

Madagascar Rosewood

Mahogany - African, Honduran, Sapele

Mahogany - Flamed/Beeswing

Mahogany - Quilted

Mahogany - Special High Figure

Malaysian Blackwood

Mandolin/Ukulele/Small Instrument Backs/Sides

Maple - European & Bigleaf

Monkey Pod

Monterey Cypress

Oregon Myrtle / California Laurel

Ovangkol

Padauk

Palo Escrito

Pau Ferro / Morado

Pau Rosa

Primavera

South East Asian Rosewood

Spanish Cypress

Walnut

Wenge

Zebrawood

Ziricote


Solid Body Woods

Electric Guitar Body Blanks

Figured Maple

Figured Redwood Top Plate

Flamed Oregon Myrtle Top Plate

Koa Top Plate

Lacewood Top Plate

Macassar Ebony Top Plates

Spalted Alder Top Plate

Specialty Exotic Drop Plates

Wenge Top Plate

Zebrawood Top Plate

Archtop F-Hole Binding


Bindings & Purflings

Backstrips

Bold Multi-Line Purfling

End Graft/Heel Cap Material

Fine Multi-Line Purfling - Double Length

Marquetry Purfling

Plastic Binding

Wood Binding

Wood Strips for Purfling & Trim


Bridge Blanks

Bloodwood Bridge Blank

Camatillo Bridge Blank

Cocobolo Rosewood Bridge Blank

Ebony Bridge Blank

Granadillo Bridge Blank

Honduran Rosewood Bridge Blank

Indian Rosewood Bridge Blank

Macassar Ebony Bridge Blank

Madagascar Rosewood Bridge Blank

Pau Ferro/Morado Bridge Blank

Snakewood Bridge Blank

South East Asian Bridge Blanks

Turning Squares

Ziricote Bridge Blank


Bridges and Pins

Black Horn Pins

Bone Pins

Bridge Pins - Wood and Plastic

End Pins - Wood

Fossilized Walrus Ivory Pins

Graphite Bridge

Mammoth

Mickelson Bone & Ivory

Pre-Made Wood Bridges

Strap Buttons - Metal


Fingerboards

African Blackwood Fingerboard

African Brown Rosewood Fingerboards

Birdseye Maple Fingerboards

Bloodwood Fingerboard

Bocote Fingerboard

Bois De Rose Fingerboard

Camatillo Fingerboard

Cocobolo Rosewood Fingerboard

Ebony Fingerboard

Granadillo Fingerboard

Honduran Rosewood Fingerboard

Indian Rosewood Fingerboard

Macassar Ebony Fingerboard

Madagascar Rosewood Fingerboards

Mandolin and Ukulele Fingerboards

Mukushi (Zambian Teak)

Pau Ferro/Morado Fingerboard

Purple Heart Fingerboard

Rock Maple Fingerboard

S.E. Asian Rosewood Fingerboard

Snakewood Fingerboard

Upright Bass Fingerboard

Ziricote Fingerboard

Headplates


Inside the Box

Back Joint Reinforcement

Bracewood

Bridge Plate

End Block

Kerfing

Preshaped Braces

Soundhole Reinforcement for Classical Guitars

Archtop Guitar Curly Maple Neck Blanks


Neck Woods

Archtop Mandolin Neck Blanks

Birdseye Maple Neck Blanks

Curly Maple Neck Blanks

Indian Rosewood Neck Blanks

Mahogany FSC Neck Blanks

Mahogany Neck Blanks

Peruvian Walnut Neck Blanks

Pre-Carved Laminated Bolt-on Necks

Pre-Carved Mahogany Bolt-on Necks

Pre-Carved Mahogany Bolt-on Necks, Pre-drilled

Pre-Carved Mahogany Dovetail Necks

Pre-Carved Spanish Cedar Classical Necks

Rock Maple Neck Blanks

Spanish Cedar Neck Blanks

Various Heel Blocks

Solid Wood Rosettes


Rosettes

Handmade Russian Rosettes

Pre-Made Rosettes

Rosette Inlay Material

Rosette Sticks


Veneers

Colored Veneers

Fiber Veneer Sheets

Headplate Veneers

Wood Veneers


Tools and Services


Shop Services

Same Day Serviced Fingerboards

Bending Purfling

Bending Sides & Binding

Fingerboard Radiusing

Fingerboard Slotting

Fingerboard Thickness Sanding

Profiling Service

Rosette Inlaying

Sanding & Joining

Bending Pipe


Bending/Heating

Neck Heater

Professional Bending Iron

Repair Blankets

Side Bending Blanket & Timers

Side Bending Machines

Step-Up/Down Voltage Converter

Timer/Temperature Control

Binding Cutter/Bearing Kit


Binding Tools

Contour Base for Binding Ledge

Heavy Duty Cutter

Rubber Binding Strap

Schneider Gramil

Universal Binding Machine

Glue-Clearing Chisel


Chisels & Gouges

Gouge for Carving Heel

LMI Chisels

Spokeshaves

Tool Handles


Clamps & Vises

Aluminum Fingerboard Caul

Articulated Clamp

Bridge/Brace Clamps

DE-STA-CO Clamps

Fingerboard Clamp

Fox Bridge Clamps

Go-bar Clamps

Go-bar Deck

Hollow Forms

Kant-twist Clamps

Kerfing Clamps

Klemmsia Cam Clamps

Shop Fox™ Parrot Vise

Toggle Clamps


Fretting

Fretting Kit

Fretwire

3-Corner File

3-in-1 Fret FILE

End or Fret Cutters

Fret Dolly

Fret Hammer

Fret Height Gauge

Fret Pullers

Fret Rounding Files

Fret Saw

Fret Tang Expander, Fret Tang Compressor

Fret Tang Removal Tool

Fretting Templates

Grobet Files

Locating Pins & Drills

Manual Slotting System

Nut & Saddle Files

Nut and Saddle Setup Gauge

Power Slotting System

Professional Fret Bender

Taylor™ Fret Buck


Knives & Saws

Comfy-Grip Knife

Instrument Maker's Knives

Japanese Luthiers Saw

Jeweler's Saw

Putty Knives for Repair

Sloyd Knife

Tenon Saw

Zona™ Saw


Measuring Tools

Calipers, Dial Thickness

Calipers, Electronic Digital

Calipers, Stainless Steel Dial

Contour Patterns

Hygrometer

String Height Gauge

Virtual Strobe Tuner

Block Plane


Planes

D'Angelico Plane

IBEX Palm Plane

IBEX Plane

Palm Plane – Flat Soled

Schneider Plane

Concave Radius Gauge


Radiusing

Convex Radius Gauge

Radius Blocks

Radiusing Jig

Carpenters Rasps


Rasps/Files

Convex Needle File

Diamond File Set

Handmade Rasps for Instrument Makers

Pippin File

Saw-Rasp for Shaping Neck

Bridge Pin Hole Reamers


Reamers

Peghole Reamers

Ball-End End Mill


Rout/Shape/Drill

Brad Pointed Twist Drills

Bridge Saddle Routing Jig

Classic Tuner Drill Jig

Drill Press Rosette Cutter

Drill Press Sanding Disc

End Mills

Flush Trim Router Bit with Bearings

Headstock Slotting and Drilling Jig

Jasper Circle Guide

Luthier's Friend

Rosette/Circle Cutter

Routers & Router Bases

Side Cutting/Purfling Tool

Tuning Machine Roller Hole Step Drill

Wagner Safe-T-Planer

Handscrapers


Scrapers

Heavy Duty Scraper/Planer

Scraper Burnisher

Various Shaped Scrapers

Brian Burns Sharpening System


Sharpening Tools

Diamond Sharpening Stones

Honing guide

Japanese Water Stones

Lap-Sharp™ Sharpening System


Specialty Tools

Acrylic Blanks for Templates

Acrylic Guitar Templates

Brass Glue Pot

Bridge Drill Jig

Bridge Pin Groover

Bunny Ear Neck Rest

Flexible Inspection Light

Friendly Plastic

Gravers

Guitar Molds

Jack Fishing Tool

Jack the Gripper

Jig Building Supplies

Lighting/Magnifying Tools

Nut and Saddle Depth Gauge

PegShaver, Adjustable

PegShaver, German-Made

Plate Joining Jig

Signal Generator

Spatula Set, 5 piece

Steel Bushings

Straight Edges

Strap Button Installation Kit

String Winder


Vacuum Tools

Compressor Vacuum Valve

Professional Vacuum Clamp/Accessories

Rubber Vacuum Sheeting

Vacuum Bridge Clamp


Mostly Not Wood


Acoustic Pickups

1/16” BALL-END MILL, 1/8” Shank

Benedetto Archtop Pickup

D-Tar Equinox 120V

D-Tar Perfect Timbre

D-Tar Solstice Preamp

D-Tar Timber-Line Cable Pickup

End Pin Jack

End pin jack-threaded

Fishman Ellipse Matrix Blend Acoustic Pickups

Fishman Matrix Acoustic Pickup

Fishman Rare Earth™ Humbucking Soundhole Pickup

Fishman™ Neo-D Acoustic Soundhole Pickup

Headway Active Acoustic Guitar Transducers

Highlander™ Acoustic Pickup

L.R. Baggs™ Acoustic Pickup

L.R. Baggs™ Dual Source

L.R. Baggs™ DUET II System

L.R. Baggs™ Element Active Undersaddle Transducer System

L.R. Baggs™ Para Acoustic D.I.

L.R. Baggs™ Ribbon Transducer

UltraSound Amplifier

Binding Adhesives


Adhesives

Binding Tape

Cyano-Acrylate Glues

Glue Syringe

Granular Hide Glue

Instrument makers glue

Micro-Pipettes for Super Glue

Mixing Cups

Paper Tape

Smith All Wood Epoxy

Transfer Adhesive


Bindings & Purflings

Archtop F-Hole Binding

Backstrips

Bold Multi-Line Purfling

End Graft/Heel Cap Material

Fine Multi-Line Purfling - Double Length

Marquetry Purfling

Plastic Binding

Wood Binding

Wood Strips for Purfling & Trim

Electric Bridges and Tailpieces


Electric Hardware

Fender™ Style Bridges

Hipshot® Bass Bridges

Jacks

Knobs

Metal Polish

Mounting Hardware

Pots

Switches

Wiring Components

Armstrong Suspended Archtop Guitar Pickup


Electric Pickups

Fralin Pickups

Humbucking Pickups, Economy

Joe Barden Pickups

Rio Grande Pickups


Fretting

Fretting Kit

Fretwire

3-Corner File

3-in-1 Fret FILE

End or Fret Cutters

Fret Dolly

Fret Hammer

Fret Height Gauge

Fret Pullers

Fret Rounding Files

Fret Saw

Fret Tang Expander, Fret Tang Compressor

Fret Tang Removal Tool

Fretting Templates

Grobet Files

Locating Pins & Drills

Manual Slotting System

Nut & Saddle Files

Nut and Saddle Setup Gauge

Power Slotting System

Professional Fret Bender

Taylor™ Fret Buck


Nuts & Saddles

Nuts & Saddles

Tieblock Inlays


Pickguard Material

Martin™-Style Pickguards

Pickguard Sheets

Removable Pickguards

Tor-Tis™ Pickguards


Shell/Inlay

Abalam Sheets

Abalam Strips, Straight & Curved

Chinese Turquoise Position Markers

Colorless Transfer Marker

Curved Shell Strips

Faux Turquoise Inlay Material

FlexiAb Strips

Green Abalone Slab

MOP– white, gold & black

Position Markers

Shell Dots

Shell Inlay for Fingerboards

Shell Inlay for Pegheads

Straight Shell Strips

Teflon Strips

Zip Flex Strips


Strings

D'Addario Strings

DR™ Handmade Strings

Galli Strings

John Pearse Strings

La Bella Strings

Lisa Strings

Ryan Strings

6 string Tailpiece


Tailpieces

Archtop Guitar Ebony Tailpiece Blanks

Benedetto Tailpiece

Cast Mandolin Tailpieces

Mandolin Tailpiece

Selmer/MacCaferri style tailpiece

Tailpiece Strap


Truss Rods/Neck Parts

Bolt-On Neck Inserts

Compression Rod

Graphite Composite Sheet Stock

Graphite Neck Reinforcements

Graphite scrap

Graphite U-Channel Rod

Pultruded Carbon Rods

Truss Rod - Double action welded nut

Truss Rod - Martin™ Style Truss Rod

Truss Rod - One-way wrapped

Truss Rod - Standard welded end

Truss Rod Covers

Truss Rod Nuts

Alessi Classical Tuning Machines


Tuning Machines

Flamenco and Violin Pegs

Fustero™ Classical Tuners

Gilbert Classical Tuners

Gotoh™ Classical Premium Tuners

Gotoh™ Classical Tuners

Gotoh™ Classical Tuners Replacement Rollers

Gotoh™ Mandolin Tuners

Gotoh™ Steel String Contour (510's)

Gotoh™ Steel String Enclosed

Gotoh™ Steel String Mini

Gotoh™ Steel String Open Gear

Gotoh™ Steel String Replacement Buttons

Gotoh™ Steel String Slot-Head

Gotoh™ Steel String Vintage Style

Gotoh™ Ukulele Tuning Machines

Grover Economy “A” Style Mandolin Tuning Machines

Grover Ukulele Pegs

Hipshot Ultralite Bass Tuners

Replacement Screws

Schaller™ Banjo Tuning Machines

Schaller™ Bass Tuning Machines

Schaller™ Classical Tuning Machines

Schaller™ Ebony Buttons

Schaller™ Mandolin Tuning Machines

Schaller™ Steel String

Schaller™ Steel String Minis

Schaller™ Vintage Open Back Tuners

Tri-Flow Oil

Tuning Machine Bushings

Abralon


Finishing


Abrasives

Buflex

Fre-Cut Gold Sandpaper

Microfinishing Abrasives

Micro-Mesh

SandDevil

Steel Wool

Tri-M-ite™ Sandpapers

Wet-or-Dry™ Polishing Papers


Adhesives

Binding Adhesives

Binding Tape

Cyano-Acrylate Glues

Glue Syringe

Granular Hide Glue

Instrument makers glue

Micro-Pipettes for Super Glue

Mixing Cups

Paper Tape

Smith All Wood Epoxy

Transfer Adhesive

Buffing Supplies


Buffing

ShopFox® Buffing Assembly

Aniline Dyes Alcohol Soluble


Dyes

Aniline Dyes Water Soluble

Dye Concentrates

Fingerboard Dye

Lampblack


Filler

LMI Micro-bead Acrylic Paste Filler

McFadden’s™ Pore Filler

Plastic Spreaders

System 3 Epoxy Filler

Z-poxy

3M Fine-Line Masking Tape


Finishes

Burn-in Lacquer Stick

Dr. Duck's Ax Wax

Finesse-it™II and Perfect-it™II

Fingerboard Oil

Finishing Kit

KTM Product Line – Spar Varnish

KTM Product Line – Water based Finish

Liquid Polishing Compounds

McFadden’s™ Spray Lacquer

Menzerna Dry Polishing Compound

Oil Finish

Oxford Premium Product Line – Water Based Lacquer

Preval Sprayer

Second Chance Dent Filler

Shellac & French Polishing Materials

Tack Cloth


Media - Gifts - More


Administrative

Catalog

No Charge

One of a Kind

Special Purchase


Books, Acoustic

A Guitar Maker’s Manual, Jim Williams

Acoustic Guitar Owner’s Manual

Antonio de Torres Guitar Maker - His Life & Work

Build Your Own Acoustic Guitar, Jonathan Kinkead

Building a Selmer-Maccaferri Guitar

Building Kit Acoustic Guitars, Bill Cory

Classic Guitar Construction, Irving Sloane

Classical Guitarmaking, John S. Bogdanovich

Custom Guitars

Guitarmaking: Tradition and Technology, W. Cumpiano & J. Natelson

Lutherie Tools, Edited by Cyndy Burton and Tim Olsen

Lutherie Woods & Steel String Guitars, Edited by Burton & Olsen

Making Master Guitars, Roy Courtnall

Steel String Guitar Construction, Irving Sloane

Steel String Guitar, David Young

Step-by-Step Guitar Making , Alex Willis

The Acoustic Guitar

The Art of Tap Tuning, Roger H. Siminoff

The Classical Guitar, Tony Bacon

The History of the American Guitar: 1833 to Present

The Luthier's Handbook

Vintage Guitars – The Instruments, The Players, The Music


Books, Dulcimer

Constructing The Mountain Dulcimer, Dean Kimball

How to Build a Hammered Dulcimer, Phillip Mason


Books, Electric

Animal Magnetism for Musicians, Erno Zwaan

Building Electric Guitars

Constructing a Solid-Body Guitar, Roger Siminoff

Customizing Your Electric Guitar, Adrian Legg

Electric Guitar Setups, Hideo Kamimoto

Guitar Electronics for Musicians, Donald Brosnac

Make Your Own Electric Guitar & Bass, By D Waring & D Raymond

Make Your Own Electric Guitar, Melvyn Hiscock

Making a Laminated Hollow Body Electric Guitar

A Collection of Fine Spanish Guitars, Sheldon Urli


Books, Misc.

A Guitarmaker's Canvas: The Inlay Art of Grit Laskin

Art That Sings, The Life & Times of Luthier Steve Klein, Schmidt

Double Bevel Sharpening, Brian Burns

Guitar: An American Life

Left-Brain Lutherie, David C. Hurd, Ph.D.

Making an Archtop Guitar, Robert Benedetto

Manual of Guitar Technology by Franz Jahnel

Pearl Inlay, J.E. Patterson

Siminoff's Luthiers Glossary

The Art of Inlay, Larry Robinson

The Bouzouki Book by Graham McDonald

The Fine Guitar, José Oribe

The Jewelry Engravers Manual, By R. Allen Hardy & John Bowman

The Mandolin Manual

The Mandolin Project by Graham McDonald

The Story of Selmer Maccaferri Guitars by Francois Charle

The Ultimate Bluegrass Mandolin Construction Manual, Siminoff

The Woodfinishing Book, Michael Dresdner

Things About the Guitar, Jose Ramirez III

Ukulele Design and Construction

Understanding Wood, R. Bruce Hoadley

Woodworking Basics, Peter Korn


Books, Repair

Complete Guitar Repair Hideo Kamimoto

Guitar Player Repair Guide, Dan Erlewine

Guitar Repair Irving Sloane

The Acoustic Guitar, Volume II, Don Teeter

The Big Red Book of American Lutherie

Finishing, with John Greven, Michael Hornick, Eugene Clark


Festival Videos

Intonation, with J Gilbert, G Byers, P Jacobson, & B Feiten

Material Testing, with Brian Burns

Sales & Marketing, with Somogyi, Turner,Johston, Kelly,& Ribbecke

Small Shop Production, James Olsen, Kent Everett, John Greven

Voicing, Tim White, Michael Hornick, R. Schneider

Apparel


Gifts & Accessories

Cases

Gift Certificate

John Pearse Armrest

John Pearse Guitar Humidifier

Sample Box

Festival Books, Posters, & etc.


Guitar Festival

Festival Tickets

Guitar Festival Apparel


Plans, Classical

Barbero (Flamenco) by Bill Lewis

Bogdanovich Classical Guitar

Hauser Senior, 1943

Hauser, 1937

Kasha-Schneider

Manuel Reyes Flamenco by Tom Blackshear

Ramirez 1912

Ramirez 1966

Rodriguez, Miguel Jr., 1976

Romanillos, 1973

Roy Courtnall Plans

Custom Fret Scale


Plans, Other

Dulcimer Plans

Electric Plans

Flattop Bass

Fox Universal Side Bending Machine Plan

Fretwire Bender Plan

Hammered Dulcimer & Hurdy Gurdy

Lute

Mandolin

Mandolin, 1923 Loyd Loar Gibson F5-style

Neck Layout Chart

Ribbecke Mortising Fixture

Ukulele Plans


Plans, Steel String

1937 Gibson L-00

Archtop Jazz Guitar - Single Cutaway, Courtnall

Archtop, 1956 D’Angelico New Yorker

Archtop, Benedetto

Bill Moll Cutaway Archtop Guitar Plan

Dreadnought

Gibson 20's L-O

Gibson J-45

J-200 Style

Martin 1-18, 1918

Selmer Maccaferri-Style D-Hole Plan

Selmer Model 807 Jazz Guitar

Smaller Guitars (OM, 000) by Scott Antes

Solid Body Guitar Plan


Videos, DVD’s, CD’s

Archtop Guitar Design & Construction, Robert Benedetto

Bending Machine Video

Binding Machine Video

Build a Guitar with Robert O’Brien

Build an Acoustic Guitar with Frank Finocchio

Building the Selmer-Maccaferri Guitar

French Polishing for Guitarmakers, Ronald Louis Fernandez

Frets.com CD-Rom

Guitar Finishing w/Robert O'Brien

Guitar Making with Benito Huipe, Ronald Louis Fernandez

Inlay Techniques, Larry Robinson

Nylon String Guitar Care, Ronald Louis Fernández

The Jumping Flea, Tales of the Modern Ukulele