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Guitars: Design, Production, and Repair
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781541289130
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Dec 15 2016
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.88
Height: 0.69 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Jim Donahue's Classic Guitar Repair and Design Book Returns to Print!
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Guitar Design, Production, and Repair From One of the Most Knowledgeable Men in the Industry
Guitars: Design, Production, and Repair has been released just as it was originally released in 2002
This book can help you answer almost any question you may have in regards to guitar building and is a staple in the collections of many shops around the world!
If you're looking for a kingpin guitar connoisseur? You simply can't get any more knowledgeable then Jim Donahue. His Guitar shop NoahJames Guitars/Leader Music Inc. is just minutes outside of Philadelphia Pennsylvania and was founded in 2003. Jim, however, has been in the Guitar biz for over 30 years now and has gained quite a reputation for himself! One of the area's most dexterous in terms of Guitar knowledge and know how. Graduating as a music major at Bucks County Community college, he started out in 1984 and got his start working his way up through the ranks at Hoshino USA, the makers of Ibanez Guitars located in Bensalem, PA.While at Ibanez Jim became the USA main guitar designer and custom builder. He was also the overseas purchaser. Part of his job included studying the market and designing new models in terms of current trends and analyzing new market areas. He worked with the artists endorsed and designed models to fit their specific needs. Jim has an impressive resume of artists he had done work for. He has built and designed custom guitars for Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, George Benson, Paul Gilbert, Larry Mitchell, John Petrucci, Andy Timmons, Gerald Veasley, Gary Willis, Jon Finn, and many other Ibanez endorsers past and present. He marketed new products to the buyers at Guitar Center, Musicians Friend, Sam Ash, Music 123, and Brook Mays. Some of these designs included guitar designs for Ibanez include Y2KDNA, Crystal Planet, GB Mask, and Artcore. SA series, EDC Bass, EDB Bass, Talman series, USRG series, RG Series, USATK Series, Seven string jazz guitar, Seven string acoustic guitar, current Artist series, Blazer series. He made 3D Cad drawings and spent much time traveling overseas to Asia where he also learned to speak basic Korean and Japanese. If you think that wasn't enough to keep him busy during the Ibanez years, Jim rolled up his sleeves and sunk his teeth into writing a fabulous book for Ibanez entitled Ibanez the Untold Story which was published in 2004. There was so much work, research, and thought that went into that thick hard bound impressive book! A total must have for any Ibanez owner. Throughout 1994-2003 Jim also was responsible for the layout, models and detail of the Ibanez guitar catalogs. Taking this knowledge with him has aided in the magnificent catalogs he now produces for his own guitar manufacturing company! In 2002 Jim then published Guitars: Design, Production and Repair, which has been very successful! Jim has also written and work published in Korean Guitar magazine called Rockit. He had a section in tremolos' In Dan Erlewins How to Make Your Electric Guitar Play Great. For the Philadelphia Chapter of the Arts, he was called upon to speak at numerous seminars. He is also a consultant for various musical instrument websites. Jim is a family man in his spare time. He spends time with his two sons Noah and Evan who are close in age. He and his wife Jen also enjoy doing home improvements and just got done laying a new hardwood floor throughout their home in Bucks County, PA. It doesn't seem that Jim can stay away from working with wood at work or during his down time!
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