You got that? I didn't

The P's and Q's that is.

I just started deflection testing too and tried searching as well for others methods and so on. I finally came to the conclusion that it's a big secret and you have to figure it all out yourself... ... I guess after about 20 more guitars I will have a personal data set that will start to provide results.

Looks like it's out of stock? Is there a digital version?

I'm currently proofing the 2nd edition pre-prints from the printer.

Trevor, will there be significant differences between the 1st and 2nd editions?

Trevor, will there be significant differences between the 1st and 2nd editions?

Bob, quite a lot up of updates came as a consequence of discussions in "the book" section of the ANZ Luthiers Forum. So in a sense many of the updates are already on line.

Probably greater than 98% the same. I've changed out a few of the "free standing" photos for better/more interesting ones; the photos in Build are all a little bit larger and better colour balanced; there's a bit more on intonation/compensation, there's a better double-acting truss rod. There's minor changes to some of the equations so that they are easier to check (there was a residual error of ~0.5% (iirc) that was driving people mad when trying to check their calcs, but of no consequence in real life). There's the new foreword by Charles Fox (referred to above) and a commendation by Tommy Emmanuel. Otherwise, it was about correcting typos and re-wording a few explanations to help reduce the possibility of any ambiguity. So if you already have Edition 1, I wouldn't be rushing out to update to Edition 2, unless you have plenty of spare cash that you want to throw in my direction!