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Nine complete guitar builds, filmed start to finish. Watch any of them, in any order, as many times as you like. Nothing expires.

Never built one? Start here.

Watch the Bolt-on Neck Junior build first. It is the most forgiving guitar to build, and it covers nearly every skill the other eight use: neck fitting, wiring, finishing, and setup.

You do not need to own anything to watch it. That is the point. Watch the whole build, then decide whether this is something you want to do.

Start the first build

Opening frame of the Bolt-on Neck Junior build: a spalted maple guitar body held up to camera

The nine builds

Each one is the complete job, in order: unboxing, neck fitting, fret leveling, pickup wiring, staining, finishing, and setup and intonation.

  • Bolt-on Neck Junior guitar kit assembly series

    Bolt-on Neck Junior

    36 videos · best first build

    Watch
  • Solid Body ST guitar kit assembly series

    Solid Body ST

    38 videos

    Watch
  • Solid Body TE guitar kit assembly series

    Solid Body TE

    29 videos

    Watch
  • Set-In Neck Solid Body guitar kit assembly series

    Set-In Neck Solid Body

    33 videos · glued neck joint

    Watch
  • Semi-Hollow ST guitar kit assembly series

    Semi-Hollow ST

    28 videos

    Watch
  • Semi-Hollow Single Cutaway guitar kit assembly series

    Semi-Hollow Single Cutaway

    22 videos

    Watch
  • Acoustic-Electric guitar kit assembly series

    Acoustic-Electric

    56 videos · the longest build

    Watch
  • Headless guitar kit assembly series

    Headless

    23 videos

    Watch
  • EXP guitar kit assembly series

    EXP

    31 videos

    Watch

Single skills, on their own

If you only want one thing, such as how to wire a pickup or how to stain a veneer, these are the standalone tutorials. 87 of them.

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Stuck on a step, or trying to work out which kit fits what you just watched? Ask in the builder community. We answer, and so do people who have already finished the exact guitar you are looking at.

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And if you decide building is not for you, that is a real answer too.

You found out for free, before you spent anything. Keep the videos either way.