Hello, I'm a player with 0 lutherie skills and I'd like to learn some more about my instrument. Just in case any of you guys are registered on two or more lutherie forums, this will be the second time I've posted this request in order to cover my bases. So please, any advice is welcomed.
There's so much to learn so I'd like to start with one area: intonation - and there's so much in just that one area. It seems impossible to get proper, or close to proper, intonation if you were to directly replicate the position of notes on a string onto a fingerboard when building a guitar neck. There's so many things that in my mind would change the 'true' position of the notes and therefore intonation. Here's one example of those things..
Neck relief. Neck relief alone would affect intontion in so many ways. The curvature, or relief, creates different action along the length of the string. This difference in height equals more stretching at different points when fretting and consequently greater change in pitch/intonation. Another thing is the actual position of the frets changes when you bend, or relieve, the neck from its original position.
Anyways, I don't expect anyone to give this detailed a lesson on a forum (but feel free if you want to
), which is why I'm asking for good books on the subject. Keep in mind that I know nothing of lutherie and I'm sure, as in every profession, there are terminology unique to the craft so I really need a book that's friendly enough for a novice but more advanced than any summary I can pick off the internet. Something intermediate-advanced, or I dunno....Well, sorry about the long post but I really could use your guys' help and I'll appreciate any, thanks.
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