A bit "off topic", A. P. Sharpe's "Make Your Own Spanish Guitar"

[Trapdoor2]

I was digging thru a massive single-drawer filing cabinet (looks bomb-proof, maybe atomic bomb proof) that came with the luthier's estate I purchased some years ago. Found many banjo catalogs from the 60s and 70s...and this little book dated 1963. Anyone familiar with it?

[Paul Magnussen]

Returning to Make Your Own Spanish Guitar: you may be interested to know that the famous luthier John Gilbert, whose guitars were played by (among others) David Russell and David Tanenbaum, got his start with that book.

You can read about it here:

www.paulmagnussen.com/john-gilbert-interview.html