This detailed, photo illustrated guide shows the progress of a first time builder on his archtop guitar project.

A captioned photo gallery of an archtop guitar making project.

Guitarmaker Darrell Cook outlines the major steps of the archtop guitar building process with pictures and captions.

This site has a page on archtop guitar construction which describes the experience of an amatuer builder in making his first archtop.

A journal of the process used to build an archtop guitar made of store bought woods.

A wide variety of resources luthiers.

An article on the acoutic design of instruments.