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• Cigar Box Guitars: The Ultimate DIY Guide for the Makers and Players of the Hand

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  Part DIY guide, part scrapbook – this book takes you behind the music to get a glimpse into the faces, places and workshops of the cigar box revolution. Cigar box guitars have never been more popular and now you can learn to make your own. You don't need to spend a lot of money and you don't need to have a shop full of tools. All you need to do is follow the author's step-by-step instructions for making three different styles of guitar. They're fun (some would say addictive) to build and even more fun to play! The guitars that can be made with this book: • Basic CBG: A simple build with the minimum number of components. It's a three string acoustic instrument built from a paper covered box and played with a slide and has burned-in fret lines, but no real frets. • Slightly Nicer CBG. Uses a nicer cigar box, has a more decorative, built-up headstock. Also has burned in fret-lines and three strings. In addition, this one incorporates a very simple piezo pickup so it can be played through an amplifier. Slightly more complex in woodworking terms and involves a bit of wiring and soldering. • Cigar Box Telecaster. This one would be built from a cigar box and a pre-fabbed six-string guitar neck. It would use commercial pickups and volume/tone controls. I'm picturing it as a tribute to the Fender Telecaster. It involves more complicated woodworking and much more wiring/soldering, as well as filling much of the box with wood to support the tension of six steel strings. More than just a how-to guide, this book chronicles the modern revival of the cigar box guitar. You’ll learn a bit about its roots, influential personalities and the cultural trends that are bringing this instrument back to the musical landscape. Author and professional photographer, David Sutton introduces readers the faces of the CGB movement with in-depth profiles and photographic portraits of fascinating builders and performers. Basic information about learning to play and tune a cigar box guitar are also included. A perfect opportunity to put a real American tradition in your own hands.

• STYLISH SLEIGH CUTOUT

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  35" TALL AND 56" LONG. Includes lumber needed and fullsize patterns.

• FANTASTIC FUTON

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  One minute it's a relaxing sofa. The next, it's a comfortable bed. Either way, our sturdy oak frame supports its fluffy mattress in the greatest of style. Build one for an extra bedroom, the familyroom, or that college-bound scholar. You'll find that the futon gets lots of use, and that you'll be the genius who made it. We built our frame around a 54X75" FULL-SIZE futton mattress. If you select a different size mattress, you'll need to adjust the frame size accordingly.

• WILLIAM SAROYAN: PLACES IN TIME

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  Lavishly illustrated with beautiful, evocative watercolors, this record visits dozens of locations influential to the life of Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Saroyan, best known for his play The Time of Your Life. Accompanied by well-documented biographical research, this series of paintings highlights places critical to Saroyan’s life, such as his family’s ancestral home of Bitlis, Armenia; the Fred Finch Orphanage in Oakland, where he spent five years of his early childhood; and the MGM Studios in Los Angeles, where he enjoyed a short and tumultuous career as a screenwriter. The majority of this collection, however, explores the beloved vistas of Fresno and the San Joaquin Valley from which he drew his inspiration—from the Armenian churches of Fresno to the sprawling vineyards of the surrounding California landscape.

• THE KITCHEN CONSULTANT: A HOMEOWNER'S GUIDE TO KITCHEN REMODELING

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  Kimball leads the homeowner through a remodel job from contracting and designing to choosing materials and fixtures. There are options for all budgets and comparisons between all common kitchen materials. Kimball is an experienced kitchen contractor and this is an invaluable guide to the whole process. In addition to Kimball there is input from more than two dozen kitchen consultants from around the country.

• CLASSICAL GUITAR MAKING

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  Subtitle: "A Modern Approach to Traditional Design". With this richly-illustrated manual, Bogdanovich shows exactly how to build that first, beautiful guitar, using traditional, time-tested methods. Requirements are simply basic woodworking skills and a minimally equipped shop. 300+ pages lay out construction in painstaking detail.