Acoustic Guitar Kits! Why not build your own acoustic guitar?

What a fantastic opportunity! Putting together your very own acoustic guitar kits!

After building 50 acoustic guitars over the past 4 years, I can help you.

In the beginning, I built 6 kits purchased from Guitar Maker's Connection at Martin Guitars, Nazareth, Pa.

My dear friend Mary Herron encouraged me and I bought the first 4 from her at Mary's Music in Dickson, TN. I guess you could say, she got me started.

Receiving my first acoustic guitar kits was very exciting. I couldn't wait to open the box. I was like a little kid on Christmas morning.

This was also like getting a handbuilt Martin without paying the big bucks, if I could pull it off and do a good job!!!!

I started out working in my recording studio and garage.

It wasn't long until I was partitioning my two car garage off with plastic and building a work bench.

I left the other bay for my wife to park her car in and she had barely enough room to get in and out of it.

Building all 6 guitars in the garage, I sprayed the nitrocellulose lacquer on clear low humidity days outside.

My first kit was a 000 14th fret mahogany. I presold the second kit to my buddy Kenneth at work.

It was a D Model 14th fret mahogany made from one of the Martin acoustic guitar kits

Everyone who picked them up and played them loved them.

After that, I started building my shop so I had more room to work and keep the inside at a steady humidity.

The main shope area is 24' by 40' with an addition at the back, 12' by 28', which houses a pickin' porch and a section for heavy dust making equipment to keep the dust down in the main area.

My shop is built mostly out of recycled material.

The framing is mostly recycled concrete forms. The insulation is from a commercial roof, I replaced in North Carolina as a construction superintendent.

All exterior metal, other than the roof, was salvaged from the local interstate where a trailer truck had wrecked hauling a load of it.

The floor and interior walls are salvaged school bleachers.

I bought the wiring and light fixtures and did all the work with some help from my friend, Dennis Pratt.

It makes a very comfortable place to build acoustic guitars and put acoustic guitar kits together.

There are many tedious steps in building acoustic guitar kits.

If you decide you want to build a kit, be sure to learn as much as you can before you start and then learn as you go.

Research every step in full and take your time during the building process.

There will be some trial and error but be sure you give the glue and adhesive time to dry properly.

Make sure you get the neck set properly and at the correct angle

Above all keep the humidity around 50% in the work area at all times.

In the following pages, as I build them, I will take you through the kit building process and guide you along to help insure that you have a successful build.

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