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Rodolfo Cucculelli - Guitar Maker

This section has a list of books I have readed and I think they're very good ones. Each book has different information such as author name, language, and a little picture of the cover.


Books - page 1

Title: La acústica musical y el diapasón de la guitarra.
Author: Salinas, Carlos.
Editorial: DAIAM. Buenos Aires, 1974.
Language: Spanish.
Comments: The right way to make a fretboard, historical notes and the tuning of the guitar.
Title: Violin varnishes.
Author: Josef & Reiner Hammerl.
Language: English (traduced from german).
Comments: A lot of information about different chemical products -naturals and sintethics- to get a good finishing on the wood before polishing.
This book has a good chapter about tints (water based tints and alcohol tints).
Title: Vernici in liuteria.
Author: Carletti, Gabriele.
Editorial: G.Zanibon, Padva, 1984.
Language: Italian.
Comments: The author, mastered in chemics, gives a lot of precisely information about the varnishes chemistry for guitars and violins.
Title: Origen e historia de la guitarra.
Author: Viglietti, Cedar.
Editorial: Albatros, Buenos Aires, 1976.
Language: Spanish.
Title: Making an archtop guitar.
Author: Benedetto, Robert.
Editorial: Centerstream Publishing, California, 1994.
Language: English.
Comments: A lot of information intended to the Archtop builder. This book has a good chapter about woods and its selection thinking on the tone of the final instrument. Very good advices to the novice guitar maker to get a practic and commercial sense. A cool chapter about the know-how of making a guitar to be inserted in a commercial and professional business.
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