Build your own Electric Guitar – Full Size Plans

Build Your Own Electric Guitar

Build Your Own Electric Guitar is a complete step-by-step guide to building an electric guitar. It covers everything from the initial design, right down to the assembly and wiring, and provides clear instructions, full-size plans, and more than 400 color photos.

Every guitar player has dreams of owning a high quality, custom guitar, but this dream is often too cost prohibitive. Building your own guitar is as much rewarding as it is satisfying, and allows you to realize your dream of owing a custom built guitar without making a huge financial outlay.

Build Your Own Electric Guitar is written by master luthier, Martin Oakham. It’s packed full of quality, step by step instruction, with color photos and diagrams for each procedure.  All phases of building your own custom guitar are covered, including material selection and design, body and neck construction, assembly, wiring and setup. It also includes easy to use full-size plans. This book takes the mystery out of making a guitar.

At $25.00, this book is a great investment if you’re planning on building your own custom electric guitar!

How to make a guitar truss rod – VIDEO

This video from GuitWild shows how to make a guitar truss rod from scratch.

Discount Electric Guitar Drop Top Sets

The drop top sets on this page are discounted for a variety of reasons.  These sets are suitable for the beginner guitar builder who wants a decent top set but can not afford to risk ruining a more expensive highly figured set if something doesn’t work out. Priced from $9.99 you can’t go wrong :-)

To order items from this page, please CONTACT US with the item number(s) and your shipping address.

Click the pictures for a close up view

spalted curly maple electric guitar drop top

  • Spalted Curly Maple set with gorgeous figure and color (pictured above) this set is discounted because it’s slightly cupped.
  • ITEM 707 SOLD
  • 19 3/8″ x 8 1/8″ x 3/8″ each side
  • $19.99 USD

spalted curly maple electric guitar drop top

  • Spalted Curly Maple set with gorgeous figure and color (pictured above) this set is discounted because it’s slightly cupped.
  • ITEM 708 SOLD
  • 21 5/8″ x 7 3/4″ x 3/8″ each side
  • $19.99 USD

quilted maple guitar top

  • Quilted maple guitar top set with nice grain. This set has some solid burl pin knots  (pictured above) Click the picture for a larger view
  • ITEM #709 SOLD
  • 23 3/4″ x 8 7/8″ x 3/8″ each side
  • $24.99

quilted maple guitar top

  • Quilted maple guitar top set with nice grain. This set has some solid burl pin knots  (pictured above) Click the picture for a larger view
  • ITEM #710 SOLD
  • 23 3/4″ x 8 7/8″ x 3/8″ each side
  • $29.99

Alder Solid Body Guitar Blanks

Please CLICK HERE for our NEW ALDER BODY BLANK INVENTORY

AlderAlder is popular as a material for electric guitar bodies. It’s a medium weight wood used by many guitar makers. Alder provides a brighter tone than other woods (such as mahogany), and as alder is not a particularly dense wood it provides a resonant, full bodied sound with decent sustain.

To order items from this page, please CONTACT US with the item number(s) and your shipping address.

We have over a hundred alder body blanks in stock and are happy to provide custom sizes.  Please CONTACT US if you need a custom size body blank.

TWO PIECE ALDER GUITAR BODY BLANK (pictured below)

  • ITEM #ALDER 014 SOLD
  • 20″ x 7 3/8″ x 1 15/16″ each piece
  • $45.00 USD

alder electric guitar solid body blankalder electric guitar solid body blank

This two piece guitar body blank has been jointed one face and both edges and then thickness planed. Currently at 10% moisture content. The blank pictured is the one you’ll receive. Click the pictures for a larger view.

TWO PIECE ALDER GUITAR BODY BLANK (pictured below)

  • ITEM #ALDER 015
  • 20″ x 7 3/8″ x 1 15/16″ each piece
  • $45.00 USD

alder electric guitar solid body blankalder electric guitar solid body blank

This two piece guitar body blank has been jointed one face and both edges and then thickness planed. Currently at 10% moisture content. The blank pictured is the one you’ll receive. Click the pictures for a larger view.

TWO PIECE ALDER GUITAR BODY BLANK

  • ITEM #ALDER 011 SOLD
  • 20″ x 7″ x 1 3/4″ each piece
  • $45.00 USD

alder electric guitar solid body blankalder electric guitar solid body blank

This two piece guitar body blank has been jointed one face and both edges and then thickness planed. Currently at 10% moisture content. The blank pictured is the one you’ll receive. Click the pictures for a larger view.

TWO PIECE ALDER GUITAR BODY BLANK

  • ITEM #ALDER 012 SOLD
  • 20″ x 7″ x 1 3/4″ each piece
  • $45.00 USD

alder electric guitar solid body blankalder electric guitar solid body blank

This two piece guitar body blank has been jointed one face and both edges and then thickness planed. Currently at 10% moisture content. The blank pictured is the one you’ll receive. Click the pictures for a larger view.

TWO PIECE ALDER GUITAR BODY BLANK

  • ITEM #ALDER 003 SOLD
  • 20″ x 7″ x 1 3/4″ each piece
  • $45.00 USD

alder electric guitar solid body blankalder electric guitar solid body blank

This two piece guitar body blank has been jointed one face and both edges and then thickness planed. Currently at 10% moisture content. The blank pictured is the one you’ll receive. Click the pictures for a larger view.

TWO PIECE ALDER GUITAR BODY BLANK

  • ITEM #ALDER 004 SOLD
  • 20″ x 7″ x 1 3/4″ each piece
  • $45.00 USD

alder electric guitar solid body blankalder electric guitar solid body blank

This two piece guitar body blank has been jointed one face and both edges and then thickness planed. Currently at 10% moisture content. The blank pictured is the one you’ll receive. Click the pictures for a larger view.

TWO PIECE ALDER GUITAR BODY BLANK

  • ITEM #ALDER 006 SOLD
  • 20″ x 7″ x 1 1/2″ each piece
  • $45.00 USD

alder electric guitar solid body blankalder electric guitar solid body blank

This two piece guitar body blank has been jointed one face and both edges and then thickness planed. Currently at 10% moisture content. The blank pictured is the one you’ll receive. Click the pictures for a larger view.

TWO PIECE ALDER GUITAR BODY BLANK

  • ITEM #ALDER 009 SOLD
  • 20″ x 7″ x 1 3/4″ each piece
  • $45.00 USD

alder electric guitar solid body blankalder electric guitar solid body blank

This two piece guitar body blank has been jointed one face and both edges and then thickness planed. Currently at 10% moisture content. The blank pictured is the one you’ll receive. Click the pictures for a larger view.