/diy/ - Do It Yourself

make it out of solid mahogany with tungsten carbide anchors. the neck isn't a concern just use plywood

>>1330661

your trolling is a art, anon

>>1330661
>solid mahogany
solid deslyxia

A guitar is actually surprisingly simple electrically. Though winding the pickups may take some time, the rest is high school tier shit. Apart from the obvious, visible components (bridge, nut, tuning pegs) you'll need a set of potentiometers according to your pickup configuration, and may or may not need a standard ceramic capacitor to attenuate the higher notes. For a regular passive two-pickup setup you'll need a 3-position switch, a 25k linear pot, and a 25k logarithmic pot. The logarithmic pot is the one you will use for volume, due to shit blah blah the human ear lol it's how we hear blah blah.

>>1330764
>25k
better 250k to avoid loading down the high end

>>1330657
first step is don't namefag

>>1330784
I had to go check and indeed, my passive setup had 500k pots. It was my active humbuckers that used 25k. I stand corrected.

>>1330657
I don’t even know why people are bringing up electronics itt. The electronics in a guitar are nothing. Making something out of wood that is playable, comfortable, has decent sustain, is intoned well and stays in tune is by far the hard part. You could spend years learning about necks and fretboards alone. My advice is stick to a given plan for a known working guitar.

>>1330799
This. Most of us can wire one of these up in minutes, including special mods.

Most will not know how to properly set up an instrument. This is excluding all luthiery involved if you're not starting from a kit.

>>1330657
You need to figure out just how much "from scratch" you want to make it. Just carving out a body to match a neck you bought can be fun enough.

>>1330991
nah i want to make everything :D

>>1330764
ok so i need :
bridge
nut
tuning pegs
truss rod
potentiometers
maybe a ceramic capacitor
3-position switch
linear and logarithmic pots (25k? you lost me here)
fret wire or whatever it is
did i miss anything?
thanks by the way :D

>>1331098
The pickups, or like a mile of copper wire if you want to make your own. Also, strap buttons and a jack socket.

>>1331107
ok thanks
and do you maybe know a website or something like that that shows me the lenght of the guitar neck and the spacing between frets/pickups and all that shit ?

>>1331117
>lenght of the guitar neck
depends on if you're gonna do a strat or a les paul.

>>1331184
Anon there are more than two types of electric guitars.

>>1331234
Really? There's bolt ons and neck throughs. I guess you could use a dovetail, but that's just a fancy bolt on. You might want to Google next time faggot.

>>1331239
There's also ones with set neck, but in general the joint between the neck and the body is one of the least significant characteristics of a guitar, so I don't really know what you're trying to say here.

>>1331089
>from scratch
be prepared to invest thousands of dollars in tooling
also, read a book nigger

>>1331243
it's one of the more significant decisions in building one, however

>>1331098
Also inlay material for fret markers and side dots (optional, but quite useful), also don't forget to check how you are going to mount the pickups (with a pickup ring or directly onto the wood, if you want to skip most of electronics and pickup mountings check already made stratocaster pickguards

>>1331089
Go grab some stones and get slamming them together
You are getting pretty far ahead of yourself if you havent even started digging for ore and oil anon.

>>1331243
>but in general the joint between the neck and the body is one of the least significant characteristics of a guitar,

I wish you were namefagging so we could filter you.

>play guitar
>sniff fingers
>rusty smells

>>1330764
250k for singles, 330k for P90s, 500k for humbuckers, and 25k for active are generally the chosen values.

>>1331107
Pickups in series and an ON-OFF-ON switch that shorts one or the other?

>>1331536
actually, an ON-ONON-ON switch that disconnects one or the other at its extremes

>>1331306
i already have the tools faggot
aint nobody got time for book

>>1331544
Thanks. I think this could be done with a 2P3T ON-ON-ON toggle switch where 2 of the 6 terminals are nc. In the middle position both pickups would be in parallel.

>>1331594
Might as well use the mustang style toggle switches so you can put them out of phase for moar tonez

Need some electric and guitar you can get at home depot

>>1330657
Its more involved than you seem to realize. It takes years of learning to build a quality instrument. Unless you are doing it purely for kicks, don't try to build the whole thing because its unlikely you get a finished product that is worth the time or money you'll be putting in. At the least, buy a neck that is functionality good to go and then shape the headstock and drop in whatever tuners you prefer.

>>1330657
First learn to play electric guitar at least a little bit so you know what you are working with.
Then buy a cheap used one and take it apart.
Then figure out what you want yours to look like and you will know exactly what parts you need.

Building an actual playable electric guitar from scratch will take a lot of practice and experience, good luck