If you want to play the guitar, but the budget does not allow you to buy the instrument of your dreams, then you can make it yourself.
It is necessary
- - plywood
- - pencil with ruler
- - paint (in the example on a nitrocelluloid basis)
- - wood for the body (for example, pine)
- - wood for the neck (e.g. ash)
- - fittings
- - jigsaw
- - an electric grinder (preferably not a belt, but an eccentric one)
- - milling machine
- - electric drill
- - compressor unit (to it, of course, a spray gun and cans of paint or varnish)
- - plane, scherhebel, scraper
- - carpentry clamps, the more the better
- - pliers
- - Phillips screwdrivers
- - wire cutters
- - a hammer
- - manual jigsaw
- - knife
- - files
- - for a jigsaw - a file with a clean cut and a wide blade, for straight cuts and with a narrow blade, about 4 mm, to cut contours
- - for a belt sander - belts of different grain sizes: P40 for coarse sanding, P60 for removing rough scratches, P80 and P100, P320, 500, etc.
- - for a router - a straight cutter (preferably two - 12.7 mm and 6 mm), if the edges are made semicircular, then also an edge molding
- - for drills - drill bits for metal 9 mm, 6 mm, 3 mm, 2 mm, for wood 12 mm, 22 mm, 19 mm, 26 mm
- - concrete drill 8 mm
Instructions
Step 1
Check that there are no knots on the wood and that the fibers are even.
Step 2
Glue the body. To do this, connect two boards with narrow sides so that there are no gaps. If it does not work, connect the boards with a "sandwich" and treat the surfaces to be glued with a plane, and then glue them.
Step 3
Mark out the contours.
Step 4
When dry, the wood inevitably bends. If this happens, process it in order with a scherhebel, a plane and a rough P40 sandpaper.
Step 5
Draw the "ephas". Transfer them to a plywood template.
Step 6
Cut out the shapes with a jigsaw and attach to the body.
Step 7
Cut out the f-holes with a straight cutter with a bearing.
Step 8
Make a groove for the neck. First, mark with a pencil and a ruler, and then cut a hole. Make sure the edges are straight.
Step 9
Round off the edges on the body with a grinder. To do this, use a radial cutter with a bearing.
Step 10
Take care of the bar. The head should be straight, parallel to the neck, or tilted 13-17 degrees. If making the head straight, install retainers so that the strings are pressed against the saddle. If the head is at an angle, you can make it from a separate piece of wood.
Step 11
Mark out the shapes for the neck and head. Cut them out and glue them.
Step 12
Think about an anchor rod. Instead, make a double-acting anchor that needs a straight channel of equal depth along its entire length. For traditional Fender rods, the groove has to have a certain amount of bend that you have to tinker with. Better to limit yourself to a threaded rod, two washers and a few nuts.
Step 13
Make a groove for the rod either from the back of the neck, covering it with a piece of wood, or from the front, gluing a fretboard on top.
Place a guide on the router to make everything straight and straight. The cutter is placed forward, 6 mm, groove.
Step 14
Use a jigsaw to taper to the nut on both sides of the neck blank.
Step 15
Cut out the head, make holes for the tuning pegs. Glue the head.
Step 16
The neck has two bends in cross-section: one is the radius of the fretboard, the other is the profile of the neck. Make the profile with a file. Repeat the same at the heel of the bar and join the pieces together. Treat the radius of the overlay with a radius throw and sandpaper.
Step 17
Mark the frets. This work is very delicate, the tuning of the guitar will depend on it. The frets are different for different scales. You can see the measurements on another guitar.
The cuts should be straight, not too thin or too thick.
Step 18
To keep the frets straight, give them a radius of the frets before hammering (or straighten them completely if the frets are straight).
Step 19
Hammer in the frets with a mallet or hammer from the end. Then file the sides of the frets with a file.
Step 20
Align the frets in height with respect to each other. Use a sandpaper.
21
Glue the groove under the sill.
22
Return to the building. Mark up the niches for the pickups, tone block, and tremolo sampling. Then use a router to cut along the markings.
23
Use a 22nd drill to make a hole. Drill through it to the humbucker. Connect the single and humbucker through the tremolo pick.
24
Make holes for potentiometers and switch.
25
Paint your guitar. To do this, prepare a place free of dust and debris. Sand the body in advance with P500-1000 sandpaper, remove all irregularities.
26
Apply nitro primer or nitro varnish. Wait until it dries, then go over it with sandpaper. There should be very little of it, so that only the pores of the tree are closed.
27
Apply a second layer of nitro primer, dry. Sand with fine sandpaper.
28
Apply the color in three coats (each must dry before applying the next).
29
Apply clear varnish.
30
Install electronics, mechanics, adjust the height of the neck. Shield the inner surfaces with graphite varnish.
31
Stretch the strings, adjust the scale. The guitar is now ready to play.
