You will need
- Prepared wood (for the soundboard – maple, ash, mahogany, alder, Linden; fingerboard – maple, mahogany; for lining – plum, pear, maple, walnut, rosewood, ebony, veneer for head of the fretboard – almost any beautiful wood, body maple, ash, mahogany);
- Fittings;
- Electronics (sensors single-coil, humbucker);
- Tools (jigsaw, sander and strips of different grit: P36(40), P60, P80, P100, milling machine and video cutter, electric drill and drill bits for metal 9 mm, 6 mm, 3 mm, 2 mm, wood 12 mm, 22 mm, 19 mm, 26 mm. drill for concrete 8 mm, compressor unit, it is a spray gun and cans of paint or varnish, a plane, a Jack plane, knives, carpenter's clamps, pliers, Phillips screwdriver, pliers, hammer, jig saw, hand, knife, nail files, nail file with a clean cut and a wide blade for straight cuts, with a narrow canvas).
Instruction
1
Prepare the room for work. It should be a constant temperature and humidity. Changes in physical conditions can lead to deformation of wood.
2
Prepare the wood for the hull and cut out the shape. When it starts to dry out, treat it with the planer and a sander.
3
If you wish to draw the beauty of "the carpet" on the template and cut out. Then transfer to the body and cut with the router.
4
Make a hole under Jack and pickups. Connect all the cavities together. Make a hole, connect it with the humbucker. Using the sample classified as connect with single humbucker. Make the holes for the potentiometers and switch.
5
Make a groove under the fingerboard: the first mark with the pencil and then cut out using the limiter.
6
Make the fretboard. Glue it in two layers (the fingerboard and pickguard). Grind it. File complete curves, depending on the purpose of the guitar.
7
Fabricate headstock better angle to it. All hole saw hand jigsaw. Don't forget about the holes for the tuning pegs.
8
The holes under the frets. The distance between them depends on the length of the scale and type of guitar.
9
Hammer frets in. Give them the radius of the overlay, bevel on the sides with a file and even out the skin.
10
Connect the neck and head, then the neck and body.
11
Paint the guitar. First primer, then two coats of paint, then a final layer of varnish. Each layer must dry before applying the next.
