This is a new page, and most of my stuff isn't here yet, sorry. In time...
Design of Wood Aircraft Structures
This EBook has a lot of wood technical data along with structural
analysis techniques and advice relevant to guitars. If you don't
want to download the full 11Mb, the first 50 pages contains most
of the relevant stuff, and that's only 3Mb. Complete book (11MB) First 50 pages (3MB)
Exploring Neck Relief, by Hideo Kamamoto
This article discusses the reasons for neck relief, and Hideo's
method for calculating it. I hope to analyse this myself one day,
as I think I have a better method. Thanks to Hal Zintel for sending
me these scans. Page 1 Page 2
Five-way switch wiring
This circuit shows how to wire a two-pole
five-way switch to one volume and two tone controls. When the middle
pickup is switched in, both tone controls are active. With a third
pole, you could switch in just one of the two tone controls at a
time. Alternatively, if you use a dual-gang tone pot for the two
outer pickups, you can separate the functions by wiring it
like this.
Wooden Sword
A picture of a memorial sword, carved in wood.
I had a notion to use this as a design inspiration for a headless guitar.