Maher

Hey! thanks for all the help and advice, im starting to buy, borrow,steal all the the tools i need, once ive got them, i will buy the templates and wood, i still havent decided about building the neck eventually i want to be able to build a neck but i think i havent got the skill yet

anyway ill keep you updated!

are those fishing rods on those racks?

are you starting a repair shop i want to do that someday

whoa very nice, so is that upright bass ?

For a Squier thats a he** of a guitar.

dont bad mouth squiers some of them are very nice to play

whoa saga do banjo kits? i was thinking of doing either a banjo or violin kit, but ive never played/seen either a banjo or violin in real live so i dont know if im up to i t

Congratz man, $2000!

nice guitars

Whoa, How old is it? and how are you going to fix the hole, are going to put a new top on it?

chisel? not recommended

Hey

about the Body, the place where i am going to get the wood "craft Supplies" only do 1 or 2 piece, and its only a couple of £ difference so i though i may aswell get the 1 piece and it will save me glue the pieces up

Hey, Ive built a tele from a kit and failed badly at trying to make a V from scratch (the less said about that the better ) anyway ive been inspired by Guitarfrenzy's Strat project, and have decided, i have a 2 LP, a tele, but i dont have a strat so i need one!

Well anyway i was going to just go for it and just go by drawing and cad files but i think its wiser if i just order the templates from http://www.guitarbuildingtemplates.com

this brings me to my first question, whats the difference between a 50s and a 60s strat? they have the templates for both, but i cant see a difference

also i need some help deciding on Materials, i was thinking maybe i would use a 1 piece ash for the body? what do you think?

I was going to build the neck aswell but i think thats beyond my skill level at the moment so hopefully i can find a Strat type neck with a Ebony fretboard, but will this neck fit the size of the routing template frm http://www.guitarbuildingtemplates.com ??

Other details;

I want it to have no contours, i dont like them

I havent decided on a colour but proberly a solid colour, a vintage type white maybe..

your standard type tremolo, i was going to go for a TOM but all my guitars have TOMs so i think i need a tremolo although i wont use it much

is there anything ive over looked?

im hopeing this thread can be a refrence thread for my project, so if anyone has tips, hints or suggestions please post them!

yeah if you look at the glue line to the left of the pick up routes you can see they are quite different

i see 5 glue lines i think

a bass tom?

edit: o i see, a tune o matic

did he? must have missed that

the electronics make a load of crackling sounds even after i clean them and the switch is barsted aswell some times it work sometimes it doesnt, and the bigsby, well i have 3 electric guitars but no trems so i though it would be cool, but i dont want it to mess up my sound too much

I dont see what you guys have a problem with, if you didnt want people to ask question that have already been answered eventually every question will be answered and this place will be just Archives of infomation, there will be no discussion or community.

Hmm... im thinking i either get hold of a good squier and mod it or mod one of my Epiphone Les pauls, i wa thinking about putting this into 1of my Epiphone Les paul:

-New Pickups ( SD 59s?)

-New Tuners (not sure any recommendations?, one of the Les Pauls have Grovers the other i dont know)

-Bigsby (im not sure what this will do to my sound or how much drilling and stuff i will have to do)

-New Electronics make over (everthing, Switch, pots, jack..)

So should i do 1 of my epiphones or buy a cheap squier..

give a dam, lol

Im thinking of doing the same to my Epiphone Les Paul Cutom Black Beauty they are expensiv though, and im not sure if its worth me doing it

around 35 i would imagine

Hey, can anyone in the UK make me strat body? if so please contact me

Im thinking of buying a cheap squier and kitting it up with new electronics and stuff to make it a good guitar, but is it worth it? i know at the end of the day its still a squier but will it sound like a squier? is the feel of a squier that bad?

thanks

id go with the flame and the ebony fingerboard