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Most hobbies today keep you staring at a screen. Guitar building gives you a hands-on, creative project with a rewarding result you can play.
DIY guitar project is your creative outlet for ditching screen fatigue and making something truly yours. Browse these community videos and discover how our DIY guitar kits spark unique creative projects.
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Level up your building skills with our T-style Blank Guitar Kit with Rosewood Fretboard. Specifications Hand Orientation: Righty Headstock Shape:...
View full detailsLevel up your building skills with our S-style Blank Guitar kit. Specifications Hand Orientation: Righty Headstock Shape: Blank Headstock Bindin...
View full detailsLevel up your building skills with our Junior L-style Blank Guitar kit. Specifications Hand Orientation: Righty Headstock Shape: Blank Headstock...
View full detailsDIY Bass with Blank Canvas – Unshaped body and headstock for total creative freedom. Specifications Hand Orientation: Righty Headstock Shape: Blan...
View full detailsLevel up your building skills with our T-style Blank Guitar Kit. Specifications Hand Orientation: Righty Headstock Shape: Blank Headstock Bindin...
View full detailsLevel up your building skills with our S-style Blank Guitar kit. Specifications Hand Orientation: Righty Headstock Shape: Blank Headstock Bindin...
View full detailsWe 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.
Build 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 detailsBeginner-friendly ST-style solid zebrawood body guitar kit with a bolt-on neck and white pickguard. Specifications Hand Orientation: Righty Numb...
View full detailsBuild your own Lefty Alder body K-style Guitar Kit with Maple Fretboard using our DIY Guitar Kits. Specifications Hand Orientation: Lefty Headst...
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 left-handed DIY guitar with TE style unfinished Guitar Kit, Ash Body, Ebony Fretboard, and Chrome Hardware. Specifications Hand Ori...
View full detailsBuild your own solid basswood body TE style DIY guitar with a maple neck, fretboard, and chrome hardware. Specifications Hand Orientation: Righty ...
View full detailsDepending 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.
We make it easy to build your dream guitar: 40+ body shapes, your choice of materials, inlays, headstock design, hardware, and orientation.