To find out more about the Guitar Building Classes, please give me a call at 1-773-528-2426 or you can email me here
Here are some cool woods, tools and parts suppliers:
Allied Lutherie, great sets that you can see online, many parts and tools.
Acoustic Woods Ltd., great tops and see the back and side sets you're buying.
Colonial Tone Woods, lots of nice wood, see the sets you're buying.
Gilmer Wood, wood, wood, wood and wood.
Luthiers Mercantile International, a big selection of woods, tools, finishes and parts for building.
Stewart-MacDonald, lots of parts and tools, sets and kits.
Hibdon Hardwood, lots of cool set that you can see.
...and here's a link to the Guild Of American Luthiers, of which we are a member in good standing!! They do a great quarterly magazine full of information for those of us who build.
Here are some miscellaneous sites of interest:
Frets.com, is a cool site for all things about repairing and of interest to guitarist.
Grizzly Tools, power woodworking tools and some guitar supplies.
Sons of the Never Wrong, the folk trio I sing and play guitar with.
Old Town School of Folk Music, in Chicago, a great place to learn how to play guitar in any style imaginable and maybe a voice lesson too!