Just a reminder about our book on building the Greek folk guitar! Beyond its title and specialist focus, the book contains a great deal of material that can be useful for building plucked-string instruments. This includes both theoretical material (the basic principles of physics, acoustics and mechanics, as well as how an instrument works as a whole) and practical material (techniques, tips and so on). It also contains a great deal of information about the properties of different woods and their suitability for building instruments, ways of shaping braces, techniques that can be used across the entire field of instrument making, and plenty of references for anyone who wants to take things further.
I believe that if our friend decides to build a plucked folk instrument, this book will be a great help because it contains knowledge in an organised form. In any case, books on instrument making in our country are few and far between. This particular book is structured in such a way that it does not need to be read from cover to cover; readers can instead choose the chapters that interest them at random.
Below is the link to its earlier presentation on the forum.