Necessary tools

We can begin to build a guitar even with a single saw, but it's likely that we won't have much success. Of course it is not requied to have tools like a pro carpentry, but to make a good work it is necessary to have certain tools.
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Guitar woods

We can build a guitar from any kind of wood, but the big companies use usually hardwood. Of course, the softer a wood is, the lighter we can work with it, but for an electric guitar it is not recommended to use a wood soft as pine wood.
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Guitar body

The body of electric gutiars is usually made from solid hard wood. The thicker the body is, of course the heavier it will be, but of course it can not be too thin, because we need a certain thickness due to the pick-ups and potentiometers, etc. The solid body guitars' body thickness is...
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The neck

The neck of the guitars are made of hard solid wood. The neck of a guitar can be joint to the body in two ways: glued or bolt on (and the third is, when the body and the neck of the guitar are made of one single piece of wood). If we choose to build a bolt on neck, we can easily change...
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Truss rod

The truss rod is made to compensate the pulling of the strings, which "bows" te neck a little. Truss rods were not always used at guitar buliding. Before it's invention the guitar necks were thicker, to prevent...
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Scale length and fret positions

The scale length is the length we use to calculate the fret positions. To tell it in other way: the scale length is circa the distance between the nut and the bridge. This is mainly between 610 and 660 mm by electric guitars. By a longer scale length...
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Fingerboard and fretting

The fingerboards on electric guitars are usually rounded. The rounding is different by companies and models. The rounding is called as "Fingerboard radius". So, if the fingerboard radius is...
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Pick-up

To build a pick-upt at home is harder, but usually cheaper, than to buy one, but a home made product is usually not as fine as those which are made by companies specialized to these kind of work. Still it is possible that we would like to make our own pick-ups.
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Wiring diagrams

On the electric guitars there are usually one ore more potentiometers and switches, which need a correct wiring. The next wiring diagrams can help you. There are 6 wiring diagrams available.
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