August 2007
7 posts
Build Your Own Guitar Kits!
If you ever wanted to build your own guitar but have no experience and no workshop full of tools, try a kit for your first effort. There are all kinds of kits to choose from. A beginner just getting his or her feet wet could choose a guitar kit with all the woodworking done and all the parts included. Just add your own screwdriver! Would you like a kit to build a strat or telecaster style...
Guy Clark Built A Guitar for Lyle Lovett!
Singer and songwriter Guy Clark has built ten or twelve guitars in his basement in Nashville, Tennessee. He gives away most of them. This flamenco-style nylon-string guitar has Cambodian rosewood back and sides, giving it a remarkable deep-red color. He enjoyed putting it into the hands of Lyle Lovett, someone he deeply respects. Guy can’t say this one’s his favorite as he loves...
Building Electric Guitars Book!
Here’s a book Building Electric Guitars on how to build your own electric guitar by master builder Martin Koch. On his site, you can see pictures of gorgeous guitars he and other have built. The book focuses on how to make solid-body, hollow-body and semi-acoustic electric guitars and bass guitars step-by-step. This is the book you want if you’re ready to strap on your shop apron...
Photo of Bo Diddley's Square Guitar!
This guitar is likely the reissue of the original one he built using a Gretsch neck and fittings on a body he made. He used that original one until it became outdated. He didn’t build this guitar on his own, but commissioned it done with lots of new electronics. See the posting below for details.
“Around 1958, BO DIDDLEY built the world’s first square guitar by taking...”
– BO DIDDLEY - The Originator
Watch Master Luthier Build Clapton's Guitar!
Want a great read about building a guitar? Clapton’s Guitar by award-winning journalist Allen St. John tells about St. John meeting master luthier Wayne Henderson—who was supposed to make a guitar for Eric Clapton for ten years. We’re talking long waiting list here. St. John finds Henderson in his Virginia home, learns Brazilian rosewood is the very best for building a...
Welcome to Build Your Own Guitar!
Have you ever wanted to build your own guitar? Of course you have. Are you concerned you might spend your money only to mess it up? You’ve come to the right place. Did you know there are all kinds of ways to build one? There are even all kinds of kits to get your feet wet. You can get a basic kit where you strap on your shop apron and cut out the wood, shape and sand it yourself as...