-David Fink's book on making planes is one I would recommend. It covers much more than building wooden planes--it details the set-up and use of all the tools involved in building them (bandsaws, block planes, spokeshaves, scrapers, etc.). Amazon has some good reviews of it.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books/0806961635...
22162-3623856 (cut and paste if it wraps)

-I admire your courage, wanting to try (or at least consider trying) to build a guitar without having any (or much) woodworking experience, but you really should start out with some simpler projects as skill builders before trying to make an acoustic guitar, which I don't hesitate to describe as an ADVANCED woodworking project.

To be perfectly honest, if you don't know how to plane, shape, scrape, carve, and 'basic things like that', then I think you're not ready to build an acoustic guitar.

That being said, I don't use hand planes and don't need them, not even when making archtops.

I DO use the following tools:

Table saw bandsaw router router table planer jointer thickness sander drill press hand chisels rasps files sandpaper carving disc on electric grinder Heavy sanding disc on electric grinder random orbital sander reciprocating drum sander air powered die grinder scrapers

I could make do without about half those tools, if I had to, but every one of them earns its place in the shop.