Online Guitar Luthier School
Take The Mystery Out Of Mastering The Art Of LutherieShorten your learning curve & avoid costly mistakes with the training and personal support you need to build your first guitar or take your current guitars to the next level.
Online Training & Support For Luthier’s Of All Levels
The Luthier’s EDGE combines highly detailed online guitar-building courses with personal 1-on-1 support from master luthier Tom Bills to help you gain a deeper understanding of the guitar itself and how it works.
This holistic approach empowers you to grow beyond the basic DIY step-by-step approach, start making your own educated choices, and become a confident and highly skilled luthier, producing your own unique and exceptional guitars in a shorter amount of time.
Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced builder, our unique & personal approach to guitar-making instruction is designed to help you:
Skip the years of trial and error
Gain clarity of how the guitar works
Accelerate your growth as a luthier
Build unique & exceptional guitars
Feel more confident as a luthier
Get help & guidance you can trust
All from the safety of home without the hassle and expense of traveling.
Starting $27/mo (billed annually)
Five ways we help you sharpen your skills and shorten your learning curve
Guitar-Building Courses
Our ever-growing library of highly detailed on-demand guitar-making courses are designed to develop and refine your lutherie skills, techniques, and understanding of the guitar-making process, taking the confusion and mystery out of handcrafting guitars. Our beautifully designed course interface helps you stay focused and track your progress. Learn More
Live Monthly Webinars
Once a month, join the conversation in the members-only Q&A streaming event where Luthier Tom Bills answers your questions live and demonstrates key techniques and concepts to help you avoid mistakes and solve your lutherie challenges. Learn More
Step-By-Step Tutorials
In addition to our highly detailed video courses, we also have an extensive and growing library of step-by-step photo tutorials. They are designed to help you quickly get the information you need, including integrated links to materials, tools, related courses, and community forums. Learn More
Personal Support
Get personal email support from luthier Tom Bills to help you overcome the specific challenges you’re facing, and properly apply the concepts and techniques you learned in our courses. Tom’s personal guidance and support is a key ingredient to help you get unstuck, feel more confident in your skills, and get better results on your guitars.
Community Forums
When you join the Luthier’s EDGE, you become part of a global community of supportive guitar-making enthusiasts and professionals. Our private forums are a safe space to get questions answered and to lend a hand to other members facing challenges. This generous spirit of sharing and encouragement is one more way the Luthier’s EDGE can help you grow as a luthier and make friends along the way.
Starting $27/mo (billed annually)
I love your approach, your rhythm, the fact that you really go in details and explain the whys and hows. Plus, you’re so calm and relaxing, you’re the Bob Ross of guitar building (with much better taste, in my opinion!)! 😀
Get Your Questions Answered In Real Time From A Pro Luthier
With Our Members Only-Live Streaming Support & Personalized Training
Q&A Jam Sessions are a great way to get your questions answered and even see live demonstrations from Tom Bills to help you solve problems, avoid mistakes, and apply what you learned in the Luthier’s EDGE courses.
Luthier’s EDGE members get access to:
- This upcoming event
- New livestream events each month
- PLUS a searchable library to review or catch the ones you missed
Starting at $27/mo (billed annually)
Every webinar is a course in itself with a diverse wealth of valuable information.
Members Get Full Access To All 18 Online Guitar Building Courses
Learn how to design and make a fanned fret fingerboard and incorporate the multi-scale fanned fret system into your guitar designs for a modern look and better playability.
Guitar Fretwork Mastery is part 1 of a multipart online video course designed to help you deliver better playing, more stable, and more consistent fretwork on your next guitar.
Guitar Fretwork Mastery is part 2 of a multipart online video course designed to help you deliver better playing, more stable, and more consistent fretwork on your next guitar.
The Art Of Guitar Design Online Video Course was designed to encourage, empower and inspire you to move beyond just making a copy, but to create the guitars that only you can.
Learn the secrets used by top professional luthiers to get flawless headstock binding with less stress and more control and artist freed to create just the right look for your next guitar.
This course is designed for luthiers of all skill levels covering the physics, design, and set-up of guitars to help you better engineer and optimize the tone and playability of your guitar.Â
Learn how to inlay your guitar for the first time or refine your skills to make your work faster, easier, and less stressful and produce better results with Tom’s simple guitar inlay process.
Learn To Cut More Accurate & Reliable Dovetail Joints Detailed Video Course & Downloadable Blueprints. Learn about its design, alignment techniques, dovetail bits, and other critical components.
How To Make An Elevated Fingerboard Guitar is an online luthier course designed to help you add the elevated fingerboard design to your guitar with less stress and better results.
The Art Of Splitting Guitar Braces By Hand is an online luthier course designed to help you improve your bracing, your guitars, & your luthier skills. Learn how to select & prepare your bracing for optimal tone.
In this Video Course & Tutorial, master luthier Tom Bills shares his insights, experience, and step by step approach to effectively using carbon fiber to make stronger and more stable guitar necks.
Learn how to build your own luthier’s cabinet and about all the benefits that come with it. You’ll also get some important design tips to make your cabinet more efficient and Downloadable Blueprints.
In this video course you will be guided though each step of the process or building your perfect workbench from design, to wood choice and preparation, building and finishing. Detailed Blueprints are also included.
Learn how to build a stunning backstrap on your next guitar with this step-by-step online video course. You will be guided through each step of the process including tools, materials, design, and more, no detail is left out.
In this course, luthier Tom Bills breaks down the once-daunting task of guitar side bending. You’ll discover how to master a wide range of techniques with step-by-step guidance that’s clear and easy to follow.
Join To Get Instant Access To All 18 Luthier’s EDGE Courses
Plus you’ll get access to new courses as they are released!
Starting $27/mo (billed annually)
I love the coursework. I’m so happy I found Luthier’s EDGE … I love videos so much, easy to follow. and you can choose coursework that applies to where you are in the process. I love being part of a community of like minded people.
Members Also Get Access To Our Step-By-Step Photo Tutorial Library
*18 Included With Your Luthier’s EDGE Membership (+ New Tutorials When Added)
Join To Get Instant Access To The Photo Tutorial Library
Starting $27/mo (billed annually)
It’s not just your training that’s incredible, it’s also your commitment to all of us that are part of the Luthier’s EDGE. Thank you so much for being there to answer every one of my questions I’ve asked in the seminars and in my emails to you. For those reasons I am extremely happy with the luthier training.
More Great Features You’ll Get With The Luthier’s EDGE
PROGRESS TRACKING
Never lose your place again. Your new Luthier’s EDGE account will now track your progress as you complete each video and each course. You can pick up right where you left off and never miss a beat.
DIGITAL BADGES
When you successfully complete a course and pass the final exam, you will be awarded a digital badge that can be shared anyplace online, such as Linkedin, Facebook, IG, or put on your website.
PRINTABLE CERTIFICATES
Your new Luthier’s EDGE account also includes printable certificates with your name and date completed. They are awarded when you complete a course and pass the final exam successfully.
"Tom’s dedication to the art is beyond compare. So too is his willingness to share his hard-earned knowledge and that is no small gift."
Robin Lawless – Canada
"You don’t just show off a lot of tricks, but you actually do a whole instrument with all potential thing"s that can come up.
Sveinung Lilleheier – Norway
"Your videos have explained it all in the clearest, most detailed, and most practical way!!! I just love how you have broken down your process into all the little steps"
Kathy Matsushita
Choose Your Membership Plan
Six-Month
($33/mo billed 6-months)
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($27/mo billed annually)
What Luthier’s EDGE Members Have To Say:
I love the coursework. I’m so happy I found Luthier’s EDGE … I love videos so much, easy to follow. and you can choose coursework that applies to where you are in the process. I love being part of a community of like minded people.
I love your approach, your rhythm, the fact that you really go in details and explain the whys and hows. Plus, you’re so calm and relaxing, you’re the Bob Ross of guitar building (with much better taste, in my opinion!)! 😀
It’s not just your training that’s incredible, it’s also your commitment to all of us that are part of the Luthier’s EDGE. Thank you so much for being there to answer every one of my questions I’ve asked in the seminars and in my emails to you. For those reasons I am extremely happy with the luthier training.
I have learn mostly from books, I love books and YouTube, but your method is perfect for me. You show it in way that I am not only learning how to but also to take my time and working the right way.