| Please note that these tutorials are the product of several authors both from the Project Guitar web site and also off site links. While there are many ways to do each of the jobs described, your way of achieving the same results may very from what is described in each of these tutorials. The authors have tried to be as complete as possible but do not take responsibility for the outcome or end result in following their work. If you have questions about anything you read here please join us in the Project Guitar Forum where you will receive many different views and can formulate your own path to choose working on your own Project Guitar. |
Building Body's
| Building a Solid Body : | Author Steve (ripl3y) |
| How to build a solid wood guitar body from scratch printer friendly version | |
| Quick Cavity Covers: | Author Brian Calvert |
| How to build quick and easy cavity covers for your project printer friendly version | |
| Trem to Hartail Conversion: | Author Brian Calvert |
| How to convert a tremolo body into a string through hard tail body | |
| Trs to Edge/LoPro Mod: | Author Brian Calvert |
| How to convert a Trs to a Edge/LoPro body |
| Interactive Forum
Tutorial and Reference Guide |
| Each
of these Reference guide and Tutorials will open up to the perspective Project
Guitar Forum thread |
| Pictorial of 5-string fretless bass being built : | Topic Starter Lex Luthier |
| How can i fold a 1/4" maple top : | Topic Starter Txisan |
| Building my neck through guitar : | Topic Starter Westhemann |
| Converting a Ibanez
RG into a Jem Style Guitar |
| Cutting the Handle: | Author Brian Calvert |
| Cutting the handle into the body as known as a Monkey Grip printer friendly version | |
| Neck Joint Heal: | Author Brian Calvert |
| Converting an original neck joint heal to a Jem Style neck heal printer friendly version | |
| Output Jack: | Author Brian Calvert |
| Converting an original output jack to a Jem Style output jack printer friendly version | |
| Trem Cavity: | Author Brian Calvert |
| Routing the Lions claw into the trem cavity printer friendly version | |
| Scalloping frets 21-24: | Author Brian Calvert |
| Scalloping the upper frets better than a factory job printer friendly version |
| *denotes an off site tutorial which will open in a new window |
| Dedicated to Building: | Author Max Pepe |
| Step by Step process of a sloid body with set neck pictorial (Italian Site) | |
| Building a Lap Steel Guitar: | Author Martin Koch |
| Step by step building a complete Lap Steel guitar from scratch |
| Body building tips : | Web Site Stew Mac |
| Quick review of how body's are built at the Stew Mac company | |
| Acoustic Guitar Project: | Author Deborah Eason |
| Details on the step by step creation of an acoustic guitar | |
| Electric Guitar Project : | Author Jonathan Ghesquiére |
| Details on the step by step creation of a personal electric guitar | |
| Project Telehawk : | Author Steven Kersting |
| Step by step building a complete electric guitar from scratch using basic tools | |
| Bill Jehle's Jellycastor : | Author Bill Jehle |
| A start to finish buildup of a Telestyle kit guitar with his own personal mod's | |
| Guitar Ed : | Author Guitar Ed |
| Telecastors One complete, one mostly done, one just starting | |
| Les Paul Style Guitar : | Author John Fisher |
| How to build a Les Paul Style Guitar the "HARD WAY" | |
| Martin Guitar Kit: | Author Jim Kumorek |
| Step by step construction of a popular kit | |
| Arch Top Guitar: | Author Dave Weimer |
| A home guitar building project | |
| Mike's Project Page: | Author Mike |
| A custom bass from start to finish along with other projects | |
| Vacuum Veneering: | Website Joe woodworker .com |
| How to make a home made vacuum press for working with veneer | |
| Carved Top Sold Body: | Author Doug at Flat Earth Guitars |
| The making of the Flat Earth Heresy |