These, are some of my fav-or-ite links... (once again, with feeling)
					Here are links to suppliers that I trade with regularly: Luthiers Mercantile International ~ everything for guitarmaking lmii.com The Japan Woodworker ~ high quality Japanese, domestic, and European woodworking tools japanwoodworker.com Both LMI and JPW sell my sharpening booklet and system. Allied Lutherie Ltd. ~ large selection of tonewood ~ Todd Taggart's new business alliedlutherie.com Allen Luthier supply ~ large selection of tonewood, good prices, and personal service allenguitar.com Stewart MacDonald ~ lots of specialized tools and repair supplies, plus those great Sloane tuners stewmac.com
	At the top of the list is: http://www.frets.com Frank Ford has put an enormous amount of effort into this site over the years. It is probably the largest lutherie site on the web, with tons of lutherie information of every kind. It's especially good on repair info, as Frank has been head of repairs at Gryphon Stringed Instruments for 35 years.
	__________________________________ Running neck and neck for usefulness is   the Musical Instrument Maker's Forum mimf.com Deb Suran has created a wonderful forum for discussion on every conceivable topic concerning musical instrument making, and not just stringed instruments. Many volunteers work on keeping this going, including maintaining an extensive library of previous threads. __________________________________ The two general lutherie organizations, which are well worth belonging to. Both publish quarterly magazines that come with your membership, and I recommend them highly. The Guild of American Luthiers   (GAL) luth.org The Association of Stringed Instrument Artisans (ASIA) guitarmaker.org __________________________________ For the technically minded I recommend leftbrainluthiers  at: yahoogroups.com Its a mailing list that gets you all posts to the list. No subject too arcane. __________________________________ More technical information is available at David Hurd's excellent site. David is founder of the LBL  group on Yahoo, and is the author of  "Left Brain Lutherie", which gives extensive coverage of testing methods for all types of stringed instruments. ukuleles.com
						Technical Video Rental has a good selection of  lutherie videos in stock for rental by the week ~ all perfectly legal and ethical by the way. Another one person business doing a good thing. technicalvideorental.com
						Shell and other inlay materials: James Leonard supplies a wide variety of mother of pearl (MOP) and crushed stone products, plus mammoth and legal elephant ivory material and parts. He also does custom cnc work in these materials plus various natural and dyed woods. leonardmusicalinstruments.com
						Rescue Pearl supplies a wide variety of MOP and other inlay products at very reasonable prices from their location in Rescue, California. rescuepearl.com

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