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Bill's 14.5 Inch Telescope Making Project - Description, photographs, rebuilding of telescope, making simple lens for reflector, and links.
Telescope Making 1997 - 2000 - Personal log of making a 10 inch Newtonian telescope and mirror, including pictures.
ATM - Amateur Telescope Making - Information on telescope building, equatorial platform, scotch mount, and binocular mount, and information how to let a Dobsonian telescope move smoothly.
I and My Telescope - Amateur telescope making, mirror grinding.
San Francisco Sidewalk Astronomers - Building Telescopes - Plans and how-tos for building a Dobsonian telescope, solar filter, and mirror-making techniques.
Mike Lindner's Telescope Making - Links to completed telescopes and free mirror testing software.
Building a 6" f7.6 Newtonian Telescope on a Dobsonian Mount - Mirror making and optics, designing, design and construction of mount, and cost with images.
Plans for Building a Dobsonian Telescope - Materials, tool, and sources list, overview drawings, tube, making spider, and eyepiece tube preparations, and mirror cell and mount construction.
Mirror Making and Other Activities by Laurie Hall - Mirror making, the equipment and testing equipment.
Donkey's and Fat Boy's Telescope Page - Materials, decisions, rough and fine grinding, and polishing to make a 8" mirror.

Amateur telescope making - [22" Newtonian reflector] sits in front of the clubhouse at [[Stellafane, home of the Springfield Telescope Makers]]
Russell W. Porter - Russell Williams Porter (December 13, 1871 – February 22, 1949) was an American amateur astronomer and explorer. He is sometimes referred to as the "founder of amateur telescope making.