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Browse our best-selling DIY electric guitar kits, trusted by builders worldwide. Each kit includes premium tonewoods, quality hardware, and all the parts needed to build your own custom guitar.
Build your own DIY LP-style guitar with two gold finish humbucker pickups, a beautiful quilted maple veneer body top, and trapezoid pearl white inl...
View full detailsBeginner-friendly ST-style solid zebrawood body guitar kit with a bolt-on neck and white pickguard. Specifications Hand Orientation: Righ...
View full detailsJE style 6-string guitar kit with a solid basswood body, skunk striped maple neck, and a beautiful rosewood fretboard. Specifications Hand Orienta...
View full detailsBuild your own DIY LP-style guitar with two chrome finish humbucker pickups, a beautiful quilted maple veneer body top, and trapezoid pearl whit...
View full detailsBuild your own hollow body, semi-acoustic DIY guitar with Mahogany body and neck, flamed maple veneer, F-holes, and single cutaway. Specification...
View full detailsBuild your own semi-hollow mahogany offset body guitar with quilted maple veneer and rosewood fretboard using our guitar kit. Specifications ...
View full detailsBuild your own guitar with TE style unfinished Guitar Kit, Mahogany Body and Neck engineered Ebony Fretboard, and Chrome Hardware. You can find TE-...
View full detailsBuild your own junior solid-body singlecut guitar using this DIY guitar kit with a beautiful Spalted Maple Veneer, mahogany body & bolt-on mapl...
View full detailsBuild your own solid-body double-cut guitar using this DIY guitar kit with a mahogany body & bolt-on mahogany neck with a beautiful rosewood fr...
View full detailsBuild your own short-scale JG style guitar with a Mahogany body, bolt-on neck with rosewood fretboard, and white dot inlays using our DIY Guitar ki...
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We offer more than 40 guitar kit body shapes. You can choose your own hand orientation, tonewood type, hardware, fretboard inlays, headstock shape, binding options & more.
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At Guitar Kit World, we have shipped over 5,000 kits to builders in more than 30 countries. Every kit on this list is one we have built ourselves, tested, and watched thousands of customers build. This is not a theoretical...
Finishing is the part of a guitar build that separates "I assembled a kit" from "I built a custom instrument." After helping thousands of builders through their first finish, I can tell you the number one mistake is rushing. The...
We get this question weekly from builders who are trying to decide between ordering a kit and commissioning a luthier. Having helped over 5,000 builders complete their kits — and having talked to dozens of independent luthiers — I can...
Depending on the type of guitar you buy you may only require tools and materials for finishing the guitar (painting) and soldering.
Screwdrivers, sandpaper and sanding block. Finishing supplies e.g. Paint, stain, and clear gloss, ventilation mask, coping saw or jigsaw if shaping the headstock.
With this small list of inexpensive tools, you will be up and running and ready to build your electric guitar in no time.
Recommended reading: Luthier Tools for DIY Guitar Kits
It depends on the choice of finish. For instance, when you paint or stain a guitar you will need the surface to dry and harden (cure). This can take anywhere from 1 week to 3 months depending on your choice of finishing product.
You will find the guitar dries to approximately 90% very quickly but the final 10% takes some time. If you can’t wait that long you could try tung oil or wax finish but bear in mind the finish won’t be as durable and protect the guitar as effectively.
Here is some advice that will help steer you in the right direction, use a reference. In most cases, this will be a guitar you particularly like the look of and want to create something similar.
To view the latest DIY guitars from our community follow us on Instagram and visit our Customer Reviews page.
Find a guitar image online with a finish you particularly like, print it out and reference it often.
When audio engineers first start out they are told to use a reference point in the form of a studio recording to get an impression of how the guitars should sound, this is exactly the same principle.
It’s defined firstly by the components you use and secondly the workmanship that goes into putting it all together.
Watch the community section of our Youtube Channel to learn how kit guitars sound.
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