Assembling a guitar at home is very difficult, but very creative and exciting. Perhaps, in order to understand the manufacture of this instrument, you will have to disassemble more than one old guitar, you may have to turn to the masters of this business for help more than once. However, there are still some general manufacturing principles.
Instructions
Step 1
To make a guitar body, select an array of dense woods. You can buy it in specialized stores or by ordering online. When choosing wood, pay attention to the quality of a particular sample - the grain of the wood should be even, there should be no knots. As for the choice of the breed, spruce and pine are most often used. Although connoisseurs of this business look with disapproval at guitars made from solid pine, in the right hands it can turn into an excellent guitar. To opt for any material, tap it - if you like the sound, then take it without hesitation.
Step 2
Choose a room that will serve as your workshop. The size of the room should allow you to freely fit there with a guitar and all instruments, and the humidity in such an impromptu workshop should not exceed 60%.
Step 3
First, try making a new guitar out of an old factory one. Surely someone of your acquaintances has such a broken, worn out, hardly sounding guitar. And even if not, try looking for ads for the sale of such guitars - sometimes the owners even give them away for free. Disassemble the guitar, carefully examine its structure and try to put it back together. Replace old strings, sand the neck, straighten it. If the guitar has any broken parts, such as tuning pegs, replace them with new ones. Buff and varnish the guitar. Surely the sound of such a guitar will improve.
Step 4
To build your own guitar, first mark out all the parts. Saw them out with a jigsaw or file. Adjust the parts of the guitar to each other with millimeter precision - the slightest defect can ruin the sound. Use a plane to cut the body of the guitar - the surface should be perfectly smooth. When you have finished assembling the main parts, attach the tuning pegs, stretch the strings and listen to how the guitar sounds. If it doesn’t build, then the details need to be refined. When the work is finished, cover the case with varnish and dry.
Step 5
By the way, special kits for assembling guitars are also on sale. All the details are already there, it remains only to put them together. True, it is not entirely clear for what purpose these kits are bought, because if you decide to make your own guitar, then you want to create an instrument that is ideal for you and meets the characteristics you need. But you can try to get such a set.
