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Your Guide on Benefits of Customizing Your Own Guitar

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Your Guide on Benefits of Customizing Your Own Guitar

As you all know a ‘guitar’ is the most beautiful instrument; and people who play it, love it. If you have been playing guitar for some time now, you might have definitely considered building your own instrument. It can be not only a great DIY project but also a learning experience which will result in adding a unique custom guitar to your collection.

Before embarking steadily on that voyage, look well into the details. It must be probably noted that building a solid body of an electric guitar is less challenging as compared to building a fully-or semi hollow body guitar. To build the latter kinds right from scratch involves using of proper tools and sophisticated skills of wood working. It must be noted that designs having bolt-on guitar necks in comparison to set necks are beginner-friendly.

Things to expect from your DIY kit

It is always recommended to buy your DIY guitar kit from a reputed store, of a popular brand. Your package or kit will have all guitar parts like - a well machined body, along with proper and right cavities for neck, controls and pickups. It will also have proper pilot holes where required.

You will find a body crafted from solid wood that is well-machined and made using either solid wood having fretboard or solid wood like in one-piece neck. The frets as well as the fret markers will be already installed there, and proper spaced holes for installing tuner would be drilled with the pilot holes if needed. The kit will also include the right hardware for design or style of guitar as per your choice.

Finally, you can easily download a well-detailed step-by-step instruction guideline to help you throughout the process of ‘Do It Yourself Kit’ from the store’s website under “Manuals and Videos”.

But many of you are still confused whether DIY custom guitar work is the right project for you? Therefore, here are some advantages to consider before taking up this task.

These are some advantages of customizing your own guitar:

  • Great learning experience

You will learn a lot about guitars when you start building your own guitar right from scratch and then navigating through the entire process of designing and making one. Every small element affects the sound and playability, and this learning will definitely make you a great player.

  • Customization

When you consider building your own guitar, you will be specifying each element, right from the tuners to the tailpiece. Each module and design element is decided by you. From the woods, body shape, guitar necks down to the wiring and pickups- the final product would be completely unique.

  • A great rewarding hobby

To build guitars is an interesting hobby, once you start doing it. Your first one might be challenging than you thought it to be. It is understandable that you might make mistakes, but after the first guitar custom work, it will get simpler.

Since 2008, Solo Music Gear is one of the finest one-stop outlets to service the needs of instrument repair shops, musicians, hobbyists and new builders. They offer the largest selection of bass and DIY kits, Luthier and guitar parts.

 

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