From Scratch - Building an Electric Guitar

is that you playing the guitar in the backround?

nice job on the guitar,i just bought a gibson les paul kit from ebay and i dont know how it is going to turn out,but if it does yeah! i got a les paul :)

3years OMG?!

S**t ! 3 years?

swamp ash for the body, and I think curly maple for the neck.

is that pine?

oh and i forgot gibson uses ebony----you should have done your research...my first guitar took 3 years to plan.

Pedals wouldnt matter the fundamentals of a guitar never leaesthem when you plug into anything....It doesn't sound like a les paul because of your wood-looks like maple neck and ash body---you show me a lp built with those woods-wood is what matters

The sound quality of the recording is crap, and the guitar is run through a distortion pedal, the guitar sounds very similar to a les paul when it is recorded properly. This recording was done with a handycam

well, sir, as nice as it looks, i'd say the sound quality is quite lacking, ESPECIALLY if you did actually use Gibson's Les Paul stock p/u's. maybe it was the amp, but i'd say if you were to run that through a decent amp, you'd get a better tone quality, and maybe get it set up and tuned proper.

how many peices of wood did u use?

$1100??
Ugh, where did you buy your supplies from....

if u started from scratch u might as well have done a neck through, but not a big deal... good work even still.

I'm sorry man but your guitar playing (if thats you) isnt doing your beautiful work any justice but that is one way sick guitar =) good job

wow..thats a beautiful guitar. looks like it came fresh out of the shop! lol

I used a black grain filler. Then the entire body was stained blue. The black was applied using a CNC machine programmed to spray the black edge around the shape of the guitar.

I used the same pick ups as a Les Paul which was very expensive. Things just kept adding up during the making of the guitar. The wood too was also very expensive. There are a lot of places you can cut corners and save your cash, but if you want it done right, you need to put a lot of money into it.

Please someone answer this by reply or send me a message or comment... How did it get to be $1100? if i use cheap pickups for like a first act and put it on how much do you think it will cost? i wan to make my own but i don't want to spend $1100 on it. what pickups and stuff do you sugest? and is there a helpful book?

wait, how did that cost $1100? what was the pricey item?

How did you manage to get it blue sunburst and still have the wood grain? (1:40)

Really nice guitar by the way. Good job!

some bits sound like enter sandman

nice at 1 stange i was like omg thats not looking so good but the finish result is great good job!

Nice guitar

I'm thinking about making an electric guitar similar to the one you made, If you could like, e-mail me with some more in depth details or something, that would be greatly appreciated.

I don't plan on selling any of these, it's just a one-off that I built for myself. I agree with you on buying guitars built in the US though.