An electric guitar for a beginner is a very expensive pleasure. This is almost a dream impossible for a young man. But meanwhile, a beginner guitarist would have come up with a self-made electric guitar. And this is not a chimera, it is quite possible.
DIY electric guitar
The main element of the tool is the body. On guitars made at specialized facilities, it is made of wood. For an improvised instrument, this option is not suitable, since it is very difficult to make a guitar case out of wood at home. He will need wallpaper glue, paper and sawdust.
The fact is that the case does not play a special role in sound. The main thing here is the pickup device and the digital processor, which is used to create sound effects. For its manufacture, a mold is made of plasticine. The mixture for the production of the body will be poured into it. The bottom and walls should be made as smooth as possible, then less will have to finish their surface after solidification. The whole form is molded by hands (contours - any).
Now you need to prepare the mixture. For her, you need a couple of buckets of sawdust, a couple of boxes of wallpaper glue. Sawdust is poured into the diluted wallpaper glue. Everything needs to be mixed well. A rather thick mass should be obtained, which is poured into the mold. The mass must be left to dry for a week.
After the mixture has dried, you need to check by separating the plasticine from the body for cracks. If, however, cracks are discovered, they should be coated with the same mass and left to dry again for a week. When everything dries, the case must be polished with sandpaper. The next operation will be pasting the case with old newspapers in 10 layers. All the same wallpaper glue is used for this. Again it should dry for a week. After that, it will have to be sanded and painted again. To do this, you need old paint (the older, the better, since over time those substances that spoil the sound of the guitar will disappear from the paint). This will be the last case manufacturing operation.
Neck manufacturing
A self-made electric guitar must have a signature stamp. For this, a thick branch of any tree is taken. It should be at least 6 cm in diameter. It must be sawed along, and the workpiece should be planed. With the help of a chisel and a hammer, the head of the neck and its heel are made, by which the neck is connected to the body. An aluminum wire is taken , cut into pieces, and frets are made of it. Aluminum conducts sound best. The wire is glued to the bar with Moment glue. A recess is made under the connection of the neck with the body in the chisel body. The vulture is nailed to it.
Production of the acoustic part
It’s better to remove the choppers from the old guitar and nail on the sides of the fingerboard. The string for the strings is made of nails. When the strings are pulled, the nails will need to be hammered to the end. The bridge is made of an old latch, for which three nails are hammered on each side of the bridge. Two are at the same height, and the third is slightly lower. Two nails on the edge will prevent the latch from slipping. And the third will be a support. The bridge is installed arbitrarily. The height of the strings is set by the height of the hammered nails. To fix the strings behind the latch, six nails are hammered, they need to bite off the hats and slightly bend back. It will be a string holder. To play the electric guitar, a device called “pickups” is better to buy in a store. But you can try to do it yourself.
Here you are ready to make an electric guitar with your own hands.