John Bogdanovich is a luthier/guitarist who builds mostly concert classical guitars.  Bogdanovich brings a unique combination of skills to his craft having been a performer, a furniture maker, and a hardware design engineer.  He has lectured in the United States and holds guitar-making classes in his shop three times a year.

With this richly illustrated manual, well-known luthier and guitarist John Bogdanovich shows exactly how to build that first, beautiful guitar, using traditional, time-tested methods. All that’s required are basic woodworking techniques and a minimally equipped shop. Bogdanovich discusses the anatomy of the guitar, sound, choosing an instrument, selecting woods, templates and molds, and preparation. In more than 300 pages of text, he painstakingly lays out the details of construction, from assembling the neck and sides to installing the fingerboard and bridge.