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BUILD A RECYCLED or JUNKYARD Stratocaster, Telecaster or Precision Bass
with new, used or cannibalized Stratocaster, Telecaster or Precision Bass components
books by Bert van der Moer
Ok, but howto?
A runaway hobby tampering with guitars started in 1958, resulted in 2004 in writing some simple books on how to build a Strat, Tele or a Precision bass in under four hours - if the conditions are right.
On this site you find a lot of the text and photographs of the books for you to use. Click the picture to go to the Strat page or follow one of the other links and take it from there. Sofar two pages are in English as well as in Dutch.
The book on Stratocaster is now also available in French draft version (quality of my french remains doubtful) - voyez aussi les pages Francaises (un experiment)!
GUITARS RECYCLED
- workshops build a Strat, Tele or PBass in 4 hours
Workshops voor beginnende Stratbouwers in Nederland
Next workshops
May all saturdays
As its unlikely that you guys in the USA or UK will cross the big water to come over (even though you're welcome!), further details are on the Dutch 
pages - in Doubledutch.
If you're on holiday here and feel like building a Strat - unlikelyas it may be , please contact me and we see what can be arranged.
Informatie op de Nederlandse paginas, klik hier of op de titel.
See more workshop photographs on the "Customer Gallery" page.
GUITARS RECYCLED - PUBLISHING SERVICES
SPECIALISING IN SMALL, LOW COST, NICHE MARKET PUBLICATIONS
Publish your own book with Guitars Recycled Publishing Services!
In the process of trying to get my own books published in 2004, I found the publishing world not very interested, shouting: "Very nice and interesting book, but a niche market. Sorry not interested" Its of course heartwarming that they all find the books interesting, 
but it doesnt get you anywhere anytime soon!
So i went indie, you can do that too.
Your braindump in print?
More detail on the new dedicated publishing page , and on the publishing page in Dutch.
If your book is of reasonable quality I can have it included in the 1800+ Dutch bookstores, including bol.com - for a small fee that is.
Under certain conditions i could also get your book as eBook for sale on Amazon Kindle or the iPad under iBook app.
GUITARS RECYCLED - webshop
... buy a book directly via the Shop/Paypal - € English books € 12,95, Dutch € 12,95:
Go to the shop to buy the books directly.
If you don't want to use the direct approach and Paypal please send me an email with the form below, to order your copy or ask any question.
GUITARS RECYCLED - CONTACT
Use this form to send me an email ...
Any questions, remarks, orders .. all are welcome!
GUITARS RECYCLED - site overview
"Build a Strat" on this page a summary of my book on Stratbuilding. A lot of people actually build one using only this page. No prob, thats what its for.
"Build a Precision" same as the Strat page but then for the classic Precision Bass
"Build a Tele" of course, how to build a Telecaster!
"Customer Gallery" this is not about the ugly faces of customers but rather the beatiful guitars they've built. If you get around to doing that, pse send me a pic.
"Publish your own book" Guess. Exactly what it says
"Chords and riffs" I resumed playing when I retired at 60 in a jazzcombo. I found that some of the stuff is quite complicated when my teacher pointed out that you can play almost all these nassty chords with three notes/fingers. Especially in the beginning that suddenly enables you to keep up with the rest even when going at high speed! The key is " simplify"
Also i added some examples of licks, and more importantly scale/chord combinations - no theory, promise. Its always a puzzle "What scale can I use of that chord?" Have a look.
"Collections" after a while (say 50 yearsor so) mucking around with guitars you tend to build up a collection, however small. Also yoiu meet others who have done the same. Here're some nice examples which I try to expand over time.
"Electronics & tips" Over time i've built a database with a lot of info on electronics (going beyond the scope of my books) and other handy things to know. For example how to repair noisy pots in an amp, how to fit a piezo pup into your precious Martin, whatever.
"Funstuff" a rather mixed set of links to people in the sameline of business, but also to friends in other businesses and to nice places to do here in the area- for those people that come and visit the workshops.
"Tone wood" guitars are made of wood (most of them that is), so the subject of wood and its effect on tone is always of interest to a budding luthier. At least, thats what I thought. Here photographs and observations on wood. I may change this page into something more general dealing with sound, such as properties of magnets, paint and so on.
"The Shop" this is a real webshop with a limited number of products. Mainly my books, but i will add other stuff as well like guitar bodies and necks.
"The Dutch pages" if your prefer you can go to the dutch pages. I have translated a few in dutch, but not all of them as thats a heck of job.
"Site en Francais" ici quelques pages en Francais, un experiment
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