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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.

• MODEL MAKING: A BASIC GUIDE

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  An introduction to the craft for students of architecture; landscape architecture; urban, interior, and theatrical design. Sutherland shows how to construct both study and presentation models using common materials such as paper, chipboard, illustration board, foamcore, balsa, and basswood.

• $175 WORKBENCH

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  70" Wide, 27" Deep, 38" High Design Features: • From The editors of Popular Woodworking magazine • Compares to benches costing $1,200 to $1,400 • Has 3 different shapes and sizes of dog holes for hand planing • All wood available your local home improvement center • Height can be adjusted to the woodworker Construction Features: • The base is built using mortise-and- tenon joinery • Workbench is made with yellow pine • A great workbench for all levels of woodworkers Inside this Package: • Material Lists • Tool Requirements • Detailed cutting schedule • Step by step instructions for the Do-It-Yourselfer Skill Level: Beginner

• MAKING HEIRLOOM BOXES

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  Guided by an experienced woodworker and hundreds of photos, enjoy a full course in box making that covers everything you need to know. Sourcing and seasoning different types of wood, choosing and using tools, making dovetails, assembling the internal pieces, and mapping out a design.

• THE HOMESTEAD BUILDER

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  This classic, first published in 1872, is filled with handy advice on the best ways to plan and construct dwellings in any location using wood, earth and gravel. Includes log cabins, houses, slab houses, frame houses, and guidance on building an outdoor oven, a cellar, fence posts and gates. This was originally titled "The Immigrant Builder" and aimed at those headed west to homestead.

• STUDENTS GUIDE TO THE PRACTICE OF MEASURING & VALUING ARTIFICERS WORKS

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  "Directions for taking dimensions, abstracting the same, and bringing the quantities into bill: with tables of constants.....bricklayer and slater, carpenter and joiner, sawyer, stone mason, plasterer, paper-hanger, plumber, smith and ironmonger, painter and glazier". Signatures uncut. Very interesting work for contractors to use in estimating jobs.