Hi folks,
Who has built/assembled their own guitar? Are there any kits you'd recommend? What was your experience like? Pics would be nice, of course.
Regards,
JK
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Benn Roe wrote:I'm working on my first, but for some reason I decided to start on hard mode and build my holy grail before trying a simple kit. It's slow-going. Right now I'm working out the wiring and finishing details, but all the major components have been bought. I've also been looking into kits for a friend, though, because he wants a cheap Les Paul in a colour Les Pauls never came in and it would be nice to have a friend building simultaneously so we can help each other out. Have you looked at byoguitar.com yet?
Cydonia wrote: Too bad no one here is interested in talking about "gear"
BossMann73 wrote:I didn't insult it......I "curated" a "different aesthetic.".
John wrote:I love how this forum has the GDP of Switzerland in pedals but the collective value of everyone's patch cables is less than the change in my couch cushions. And I don't have a couch.
fcknoise wrote:I have put together a parts telemaster and I got the body from warmoth and the rest was sourced pretty locally. Except pickups.
I really want to build a cool strat or tele or something using cheap second hand parts, but I realized however I spin it it is likely to end up at the cost of just buying a guitar new. You might get more for the money as you put in some labor yourself, but it still adds up pretty much
doommeow wrote:I've done a couple of partcasters and various other modjobs and will say this - fuck warmoth. Fuck them right in the ear. Every single experience I've had, whether ordering off the shelf parts or getting custom work done, has been hellish.
Spend your money elsewhere.
JereFuzz wrote:doommeow wrote:I've done a couple of partcasters and various other modjobs and will say this - fuck warmoth. Fuck them right in the ear. Every single experience I've had, whether ordering off the shelf parts or getting custom work done, has been hellish.
Spend your money elsewhere.
Any brands you’d recommend instead? Alloy seems to have nice bodies ...
Paul_C wrote:I built my main guitar on a course - from scratch, so no pre-made body or neck, and later built a few guitars for sale, but gave it up and stuck to repairs as it was very hard to make any money from it.
I've also got a couple of basses I built for myself, with a couple more half built in my workshop.
Benn Roe wrote:I actually mostly had a really great experience with Warmoth, and their customer service team has largely been really responsive. However... I went with a 2TEK bridge (which they exclusively distribute) and I bought a bridge plate that's specifically intended to fit that bridge in conjunction with a bridge humbucker on a tele, which is exactly what I'm doing with it. Unfortunately, the bridge plate doesn't fit the bridge pickup routing, and forces that pickup to sit at a weird angle, and the result of a lot of back-and-forth measuring and picture-taking (after I complained about it) was them effectively saying "well, we routed your body to Fender's specs, so I guess it's a bummer that 2TEK's bridge plates just don't fit the very thing they were designed to fit". Nothing but a big shrug of the shoulders from the exclusive distributor of this product.
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