how do i build a guitar

lp junior freak · 04-10-2007, 06:56 PM

how do i build a guitar feel free to talk about experiences buildin restoring and fixing ur guitars

pic are wanted

Mr Bones · 04-10-2007, 07:39 PM

kind of open ended question

***FLICKOFLASH*** · 04-10-2007, 10:09 PM

well building a guitar for me began for the lack of $$$ as a child & I would build plywood bodies & add scavenged necks. As I bought hundreds of guitars the first thing i do would be tear it apart, There was no guitar that i didn't see where some kind of improvement could be made. Most learning was trial & error & i would get all the books that i could & then Stew - Mac was a big push forward for parts . I progressed to doing my own designs & experimental models. I moved on to signing up at local continuing education classes where you can use the schools workshop & let me tell you the big tools make things much easier & faster , Now days I do mostly restoration & design , blueprinting & subout the work to very talented & more equipped people

GuitarGal · 04-11-2007, 04:23 PM

I would like to do that someday - learn how to build a guitar for myself..that would be neat to learn~

M.T. Pockets · 04-11-2007, 06:49 PM

First, you gotta find a tree.
Not just any tree.
Maple, Mahogany, Ash, Alder, Poplar....wait, are you wanting to build an acoustic or an electric guitar? Cedar is pretty common in acoustics but seldom seen in electrics. Come to think of it, no matter what kind you want to build, you're gonna need a couple of different tree types. Rosewood is used extensively for fretboards on either type of guitar. Ebony, too. Oh, crap......

You're not talking about a building a bass guitar are you?
Bass guitars are, of course only built from the bottom of trees. You can't get that chest pounding THUMP out of anything but the bottom.

I guess to be covered, you're gonna need to decide what kind of guitar you want to build, then plant a tree(s) accordingly.

lp junior freak · 04-11-2007, 08:10 PM

an lp type

BCRGreg · 04-11-2007, 10:31 PM

First, learn how to spell Junior.

ptate · 04-12-2007, 07:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by M.T. Pockets

First, you gotta find a tree.
Not just any tree.
Maple, Mahogany, Ash, Alder, Poplar....wait, are you wanting to build an acoustic or an electric guitar? Cedar is pretty common in acoustics but seldom seen in electrics. Come to think of it, no matter what kind you want to build, you're gonna need a couple of different tree types. Rosewood is used extensively for fretboards on either type of guitar. Ebony, too. Oh, crap......

You're not talking about a building a bass guitar are you?
Bass guitars are, of course only built from the bottom of trees. You can't get that chest pounding THUMP out of anything but the bottom.

I guess to be covered, you're gonna need to decide what kind of guitar you want to build, then plant a tree(s) accordingly.

And just to clarify, don't plant a bent tree. Your grain will be all over the place.

lp junior freak · 04-12-2007, 11:08 AM

i know how my typing is terrible

BCRGreg · 04-13-2007, 11:02 PM

Ah, that's better. Good man.

***FLICKOFLASH*** · 04-17-2007, 08:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BCRGreg

Ah, that's better. Good man.

LPJ Freak

Cross Roads · 12-17-2007, 05:13 PM

Hey, I had to start somewhere!

single cut 54 · 12-17-2007, 05:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lp junior freak

how do i build a guitar feel free to talk about experiences buildin restoring and fixing ur guitars

pic are wanted

Check out nmguitars thread ''building a chambered LP'' .It'll do for me Tommy!

single cut 54 · 12-17-2007, 05:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BCRGreg

First, learn how to spell Junior.

that is how you spell junior.

im_b0r3d_ · 12-17-2007, 05:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by single cut 54

that is how you spell junior.

Not to correct him, but what he meant was..

First, learn how to spell, Junior.

There you go.

lp59aholicDon · 12-17-2007, 05:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by im_b0r3d_

Not to correct him, but what he meant was..

First, learn how to spell, Junior.

There you go.

Got Wood, Got tools ( Massive amounts of both) have time , patience and skills?
Bolt on neck, set neck, Neck thru, long tenon, short Hardware to be used ?
First and formost, lay out your plans

single cut 54 · 12-17-2007, 06:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by im_b0r3d_

Not to correct him, but what he meant was..

First, learn how to spell, Junior.

There you go.

I know, i'm sorry, it's just my sense of humour. But isn't punctuation crucial ?

im_b0r3d_ · 12-17-2007, 07:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by single cut 54

I know, i'm sorry, it's just my sense of humour. But isn't punctuation crucial ?

LOL! I was thinking the same while I read it,

Isn't sarcasm hard to communicate over the internet?

Roman Rist · 12-17-2007, 08:29 PM

Start here
Books for the aspiring guitar tech

(and read every thing on this forum)

dwagar · 12-18-2007, 11:28 AM

check with luthiers in your area. Many of them give classes.

drewbertca · 12-21-2007, 01:28 PM

I built a guitar out of a Cigar box as well (Cuban - legal up here in the great white north)...I used a stew-mac rosewood fretboard and some other economy parts and put a tele neck pickup about where the middle pickup on a strat would be....now I'm looking for parts to make a Cigar box bass......I think the Cigar box way is a good way to start.....and if it doesn't turn out perfect it adds to the character of a folk-style instrument.......btw My cigar box sounds awesome in open G and is a 6 string....

loneguitar · 12-21-2007, 02:01 PM

Drew, I hope y'all kept the rings!!!!!BTW Welcome

Roman Rist · 12-21-2007, 05:30 PM

Here you go.
Electric Guitar Construction at Stewart-MacDonald

Make Your Own Electric Guitar at Stewart-MacDonald

Building Electric Guitars at Stewart-MacDonald

single cut 54 · 12-21-2007, 06:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by im_b0r3d_

LOL! I was thinking the same while I read it,

Isn't sarcasm hard to communicate over the internet?

It certainly is

drewbertca · 12-23-2007, 06:01 PM

The box was given to me by someone here who can afford the full boxes......I find that it's more cost effective to buy empty boxes from shops rather than smoking the whole box...The box I used, if full, would be over $900....not a typo....and an empty box is like 5 -10......I enjoy a cigar occasionally and I do keep the rings and tubes of the ones I smoke.......the tubes do not make good slides

im_b0r3d_ · 12-23-2007, 11:15 PM

Just to let everyone know...the poster of this thread has not been on in a while.

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drewbertca V.I.P. Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Timmins, Ontario, Canada Posts: 2,482 Thanks: 6 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Re: how do i build a guitar The box was given to me by someone here who can afford the full boxes......I find that it's more cost effective to buy empty boxes from shops rather than smoking the whole box...The box I used, if full, would be over $900....not a typo....and an empty box is like 5 -10......I enjoy a cigar occasionally and I do keep the rings and tubes of the ones I smoke.......the tubes do not make good slides

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