It’d be great if there were plans with a complete parts/price list.
Those plans that I’ve seen also make some rather large assumptions on the user’s part. Most everything on the net is catered to 6″ or 8″ OTAs, so finding some GOOD plans for a 130mm OTA is rather difficult. There are also some awesome resources online, including the Cloudy Nights ATM (amateur telescope making) forum, and plenty of solo ATMers who have posted pictures and descriptions of their designs on their own blogs or webpages (I like these, these, and this one in particular). I’m thinking here of Build Your Own Telescope by Richard Berry, The Dobsonian Telescope by David Kriege (yes, that David Kriege, founder of Obsession) and Richard Berry, Sam Brown’s aging but accessible compendium, All About Telescopes, and several others.
If you have the freedom to design a telescope from the ground up, you’ll be much better served by the free instructions provided by the Sidewalk Astronomers, or in any of the several telescope-making books out there. Your requirements might be different, so I’ll also discuss the design decisions I made along the way, so that you can a build a mount that fits your telescope and your needs. The design was made up mostly on the fly to suit my particular needs and the materials I had on hand. By reader request, I am posting instructions on how to build the Dobsonian mount shown in photo above.
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