Jim Donahue's Classic Guitar Repair and Design Book Returns to
Print!
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Guitar Design,
Production, and Repair From One of the Most Knowledgeable Men in
the Industry
Guitars: Design, Production, and Repair has been released just
as it was originally released in 2002
This book can help you answer almost any question you may have
in regards to guitar building and is a ste in the collections
of many shops around the world!
If you're looking for a kingpin guitar connoisseur? You simply
can't get any more knowledgeable then Jim Donahue. His Guitar
shop "NoahJames Guitars/Leader Music Inc. is just minutes outside
of Philadelphia Pennsylvania and was founded in 2003. Jim,
however, has been in the Guitar biz for over 30 years now and has
gained quite a reputation for himself! One of the area's most
dexterous in terms of Guitar knowledge and "know how." Graduating
as a music major at Bucks County Community college, he started
out in 1984 and got his start working his way up through the
ranks at Hoshino USA, the makers of Ibanez Guitars located in
Bensalem, PA. While at Ibanez Jim became the USA main guitar
designer and custom builder. He was also the overseas purchaser.
Part of his job included studying the market and designing new
models in terms of current trends and analyzing new market areas.
He worked with the artists endorsed and designed models to fit
their specific needs. Jim has an impressive resume of artists he
had done work for. He has built and designed custom guitars for
Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, George Benson, Paul Gilbert, Larry
Mitchell, John Petrucci, Andy Timmons, Gerald Veasley, Gary
Willis, Jon Finn, and many other Ibanez endorsers past and
present. He marketed new products to the buyers at Guitar Center,
Musicians Friend, Sam Ash, Music 123, and Brook Mays. Some of
these designs included guitar designs for Ibanez include Y2K,
Crystal Planet, GB , and Artcore. SA series, EDC Bass, EDB
Bass, Talman series, USRG series, RG Series, USATK Series, Seven
string jazz guitar, Seven string acoustic guitar, current Artist
series, Blazer series. He made 3D Cad drawings and spent much
time traveling overseas to Asia where he also learned to speak
basic Korean and Japanese. If you think that wasn't enough to
keep him busy during the Ibanez years, Jim rolled up his sleeves
and sunk his teeth into writing a fabulous book for Ibanez
entitled "Ibanez the Untold Story" which was published in 2004.
There was so much work, research, and thought that went into that
thick hard bound impressive book! A total must have for any
Ibanez owner. Throughout 1994-2003 Jim also was responsible for
the layout, models and detail of the Ibanez guitar catalogs.
Taking this knowledge with him has aided in the magnificent
catalogs he now produces for his own guitar manufacturing
company! In 2002 Jim then published "Guitars: Design, Production
and Repair ," which has been very successful! Jim has also
written and work published in Korean Guitar magazine called
"Rockit." He had a section in tremolos' In Dan Erlewins "How to
Make Your Electric Guitar Play Great." For the Philadelphia
Chapter of the Arts, he was called upon to speak at numerous
seminars. He is also a consultant for various musical instrument
websites. Jim is a family man in his spare time. He spends time
with his two sons Noah and Evan who are close in age. He and his
wife Jen also enjoy doing home improvements and just got done
laying a new hardwood floor throughout their home in Bucks
County, PA. It doesn’t seem that Jim can stay away from working
with wood at work or during his down time!
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