My Gretsch Style Guitar Kit Build
The Kit
The kit has arrived with a rosewood fretboard, Mahagoni neck and maple plywood hollow body. The fretboard has acrylic block inlays.
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Building guitars from kits
Tele style diy kit part 3
The part three of My Tele Style diy kit build
In this part I finished the lacquer, polished it and have done the fred job. Finally I assembled the guitar.
Tele Style DIY Kit Part 2
The part two of my Tele style DIY kit
To give the headstock a shape, I’ve printed out many examples, but none of them were satisfying for me. So I draw my self a template on a peace of paper. First I transferred the tuner holes to the paper. To get true radius shapes I searched my shop for all round object I can find. With this helpers it was easy to create a unique shape that suits my style.
Tele style DIY kit Part 1
Part one of my Tele style DIY kit
This kit a bought from https://guitarkitworld.com/ with the following specs:
- Body: Ash
- Neck and Fretboard: Maple
- Hardware: Chrome
Strat type DIY kit from ML-Factory
The kit I have ordered by at http://www.gitarre-bestellen.de/. This kit is available as left-handed version with the following specs:
- Body: alder
- Neck: maple, 21 frets
- Fretboard: rosewood
- Jumbofrets
- Mensur: 25.5″ (64.8 cm)
- Pickup single coil
- 1 x volume, 2 x tone
- Three way toggle switch
