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Author:  GregG [ Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:20 am ]
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I'm looking into building a website for my luthiery pursuits and was wondering who's sites you like and why. Any email addresses would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Greg
Author:  Bruce Dickey [ Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:31 am ]
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www.hoffmanguitars.com
www.frets.com
www.dickeyguitars.com
www.wellsguitars.com

These four come to mind and check the links on those sites they will lead you to more.

Good luck. Why? Oh, they are really good sites, that's why. One more: www.matsushita.com ? Kathy Matsushita....
Author:  tippie53 [ Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:36 am ]
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http://www.bluescreekguitars.com
   
Author:  Bruce Dickey [ Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:37 am ]
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http://pweb.jps.net/~kmatsu/

edit..............

you'll definitely want to look Kathy's site over, good luck with your own... bd
Author:  Sam Price [ Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:39 am ]
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Kathy's site was a real springboard for me in considering building guitars.

www.cumpiano.com -contains newsletters and interesting articles about guitar building

www.guitarnation.com -AWESOME and massive gallery of beautiful guitars!
Author:  Bruce Dickey [ Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:39 am ]
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Hi John Hall, you bet, another great place too look. How are you Johnny Boy?
Author:  James Orr [ Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:41 am ]
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Greg, what will the focus of your site be? That'll help show you what we
believe works for different purposes. I like mine for a hobbiest gallery-
driven site. It's a basic one page layout with a personal feel, good
separation of information, and still easy to follow.

My Site
Author:  Don Williams [ Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:51 am ]
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I like Tony Vines' website. It's very cool.

Don't even look at either of mine for guidance, they absolutely stink. Amateuristic isn't a good way to go...
Author:  burbank [ Wed Feb 28, 2007 5:27 am ]
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I like Judy Threet's as a builder-selling-guitars-site. Lots of photos and info, easy to navigate, not a lot of verbiage. The eye-candy is foremost, with good photography, but a lot of text info is close to at hand. Very professional but not too glitzy. A lot of thought went into its structure.

For building info sites, I like Frets.com, Jon Sevy's luthier's page, and Sylvan Wells' articles page. It was Kathy Matsushita's site that convinced me I could build a guitar.
Author:  Bob Long [ Wed Feb 28, 2007 6:48 am ]
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http://www.kellerguitars.com

Long
Author:  Shawn [ Wed Feb 28, 2007 7:09 am ]
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A site that has tons of pictures of his shop and building process is Dennis Scanell's True North Guitars.

Check out these pictures:

True North Guitars- Shop Tour
Author:  Dave Rector [ Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:30 am ]
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Mario Proulx has a nice site as well. Lots of pics of the way he goes about building guitars.
Author:  GregG [ Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:17 am ]
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Thanks everyone, this has been very helpful!

Cheers,
Greg
Author:  KentF [ Fri Mar 02, 2007 6:09 am ]
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Most of my favorites have been mentioned already. There are some brilliant ideas on Dennis Scanell's True North site as well as Mario Proulx's site. I'd love to get an opportunity to play guitars from both those guys. Alan Dunwell recently added a "Let Build a Guitar" pictorial essay on his site and there are some excellent ideas there, including detail on his double top guitars. Alan is a regular at the anual RMMGA gathering in Wimberley Texas every October and I've played several of his guitars there. I'm not generally a dread guy but he had one there a couple years ago that just blew me away and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves.


http://www.dunwellguitar.com/


Kent 


  
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