An amateur telescope maker's projects
This Web site describes my telescopes. Amateur telescope makers — ATMs — freely borrow designs from each other. I hope they find some ideas here they can use.
http://www.foothill.net/%7Esayre/index.htm - Details

Buiding a solar scope
I thought I'd turn my reply into a separate page in case anyone is interested in making their own solar telescope. Just be sure to follow the instructions carefully and precisely and feel free to contact me for advice or specifics. Illustrations are forthcoming, as soon as I get them scanned.
http://www.stargazing.net/Astroman/Solarconst.html - Details

L&L Optical Services
L & L Optical manufactures single and multi-layer optical coatings. Protected and Enhanced metal mirrors, MgF2, V-Coats, Broadbands, Neutral Density Filters, Hot Cold Mirrors, Rmax Mirrors, UV filters, Electroformed Nickel, Crystal Quartz.
http://www.llopt.com/ - Details

Mel Bartels
Telescopes and telescope making
http://www.bbastrodesigns.com/tm.html - Details

How to Build a Dobsonian Telescope
Yes, it "looks like a cannon," but the above is really a ten-inch (measured by the diameter of the objective) Newtonian telescope that almost anybody can build. Here you will find plans to build this telescope, or a smaller one--either a six-inch, or an eight-inch--of identical design.
http://members.aol.com/sfsidewalk/cdobplans.htm - Details

Spectrum Coatings
To become a leader in precision optical coatings. Producing Front Surface Mirror coatings, Anti-Reflection, Beam splitter, hot & cold mirrors, dichroic filters that meet and exceed the standards of the optical thin film industry.
http://www.spectrum-coatings.com/ - Details