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Build Your Own Guitar Kits

  • 27-01-2009 5:56pm
    #1
    Turnip2000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 256 ✭✭


    Just wondering has any body ever bought or seen one of these things? There's a few different models out there.

    http://www.thomann.de/ie/hosco_tstyle_kit.htm

    Are they any use?


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  • #2
    CianRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,721 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    RUBISH!!!
    Or so i've been told anyway.

    Useless to play, but they might be ok if you just want a bif experience putting together a guitar, with out the risk of dammaging a valuble guitar.


  • #3
    Voodu Child
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,706 ✭✭✭Voodu Child


    I don't really see the point.

    You could just buy a cheap guitar, strip it down to parts and put it back together :pac:
    Thats about the extent of the 'learning' that is in the kit you have there.

    €150 isn't a lot, so go for it if you're really inclined. But personally id just buy a used Pacifica or something and use that as a base to start learning how to work on guitars. At least that way you've got a half-decent guitar to begin with, and if you need to sell it you'll be able. Nobody's going to buy that kit guitar after you put it together.


  • #4
    68 lost souls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,999 ✭✭✭68 lost souls


    There are other kits which are a bit better than those ones. Not sure still what the guitar themselves are like. http://www.universaljems.com/cart/kitun.htm

    I saw a place in the uk that had some too but cant remember the website. They had a cool looking Rick copy which would be handy since theres not really any low end rickenbacker replicas I can think of.


  • #5
    Frusciante
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45 ✭Frusciante


    www.stewmac.com

    I bought parts from this site, built my own guitar from scratch, put a swamp ash veneer on top, and if i didnt love it so much, i couldve sold it by now! theres guitar kits on there, prewired pickguards and all that kinda stuff, you might want to buy a prewired pickguard and a few more pickguards, practise swapping them out, all the different wiring configurations, or instead of buying a pre-routed body, you can buy one of these (http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Bodies,_necks,_wood/Electric_guitar:_Bodies/Body_Blanks.html)
    and cut out whatever shape you want (i did a scaled down explorer), some really nice stuff on that site, well worth a look.


  • #6
    punchdrunk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,355 ✭✭✭punchdrunk


    http://www.rockinger.com/index.php?lang=eng&page=SN_Home

    these ones are pretty good so i hear


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  • #7
    Dord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    punchdrunk wrote: »
    http://www.rockinger.com/index.php?lang=eng&page=SN_Home

    these ones are pretty good so i hear

    Yeah I've heard great things about those. I think one or two people on TDPRI bought the kits.

    I bought pickups from that store before and they were awesome to deal with. :)


  • #8
    smellslikeshoes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭smellslikeshoes


    voodoo_child wrote: »
    I don't really see the point.

    You could just buy a cheap guitar, strip it down to parts and put it back together :pac:
    Thats about the extent of the 'learning' that is in the kit you have there.

    €150 isn't a lot, so go for it if you're really inclined. But personally id just buy a used Pacifica or something and use that as a base to start learning how to work on guitars. At least that way you've got a half-decent guitar to begin with, and if you need to sell it you'll be able. Nobody's going to buy that kit guitar after you put it together.

    Thing about doing that though is you wouldn't really get the feeling of creating something. Yes it is essentially just flat pack furniture but you still are making something.

    If it were me and I was looking to do something similar and didn't want to get into making the guitar from scratch I would probably buy the parts individually and make it as a project tailored to myself with decent parts that I would actually want to play once its done. It would be more expensive but you get what you pay for and the 150 euro package guitar would probably be used as a doorstop before long.


  • #9
    Dord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    smellslikeshoes wrote: »
    If it were me and I was looking to do something similar and didn't want to get into making the guitar from scratch I would probably buy the parts individually and make it as a project tailored to myself with decent parts that I would actually want to play once its done. It would be more expensive but you get what you pay for and the 150 euro package guitar would probably be used as a doorstop before long.

    I did this last year with a bass. It was a project spread across several months. I sourced the parts from all over the world. I had the body made by B.Hefner in the US and they finished it in Nitrocellulose paint just like the old Fenders. :cool:
    In the end I had an awesome bass with the best parts I could find. It did cost a fair bit but it was worth it.


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