Electric guitar for a beginner is a very expensive pleasure. This is an almost unattainable dream for a young man. But in the meantime, an electric guitar made by one's own hands would be suitable for a novice guitarist. And this is not a chimera, it is quite possible.
DIY electric guitar
The main element of the tool is the body. On guitars made in specialized factories, it is made of wood. For a homemade instrument, this option is not suitable, since it is very difficult to make a guitar body out of wood at home. It will need wallpaper paste, paper and sawdust.
The fact is that the body does not play a special role in the sound. The main thing here is the pickup device and the digital processor that serves to create sound effects. For its manufacture, a mold is made of plasticine. The mixture for the production of the case will be poured into it. The bottom and walls must be made as smooth as possible, then it will be less necessary to bring their surface after solidification. The whole shape is molded by hand (contours - any).
Now you need to prepare the mixture. It needs a couplesawdust buckets, a couple of boxes of wallpaper paste. Sawdust is poured into the diluted wallpaper paste. Everything needs to be mixed well. You should get a fairly thick mass, which is poured into the mold. The form with the mass should be left to dry for a week.
After the mixture has dried, you need to check by separating the plasticine from the body for cracks. If, nevertheless, cracks are found, they should be covered with the same mass and again left to dry for a week. When everything dries, the case must be polished with sandpaper. The next operation will be pasting the case with old newspapers in 10 layers. The same wallpaper glue is used for this. Again, it should dry for a week. After that, it will have to be sanded and painted again. To do this, you need old paint (the older, the better, since over time those substances that spoil the sound of the guitar disappear from the paint). This will be the last operation to make the hull.
Manufacturing neck
Electric guitar, made by hand, must have a neck. To do this, take a thick branch of any tree. It must be at least 6 cm in diameter. It needs to be sawn lengthwise, and the workpiece should be planed with a planer. With the help of a chisel and a hammer, the head of the neck and its heel are made, with which the neck is connected to the body. Aluminum wire is taken, cut into pieces, and frets are made from it. Aluminum is the best conductor of sound. The wire is glued to the fingerboard with Moment glue. A recess is made under the connection of the neck with the body in the body with a chisel. Vulturenailed to it.
Production of the acoustic part
The heads are best removed from the old guitar and nailed to the sides of the neck. Nut for strings is made from nails. When the strings are stretched, the nails will need to be hammered in to the end. The bridge is made from an old latch, for which three nails are hammered on each side of the bridge. Two are at the same height, and the third is slightly lower. Two nails on the edge will keep the latch from slipping off. And the third will be a support. The bridge is set arbitrarily. The height of the strings is determined by the height of the hammered nails. To secure the strings behind the latch, six nails are hammered, they need to bite off their hats and bend back slightly. This will be the string holder. To play an electric guitar, a device called "picks" is better to buy in a store. But you can try to make it yourself.
Here is the finished electric guitar, made by hand.
