Any advice?????

jinxed

I'm looking to get into guitar making business but i don't know where to go to learn.I've already made one electric guitar and am in the process of a second, both of my own design. Are there any courses i could take? What Irish guitar company are there?

Any pointers or advice or anything is appreciated! Thanks.

68 lost souls

Im in the same boat as you as are Feylya and Beecher as far as I can remember. There are others to. We all want to get into the businiess. There arent any courses here that I know of, I figure we should set up some sort of Irish Luthiers Association.I know there are a few profesionals like the guy in marley park and one in knocklyon.

jinxed

i was taking to a guy near belfast by the name of george lowden but thats the only irish one i know of

68 lost souls

There are also Haze guitars forgot to mention them. Then there are a few repair shops aswel.

feylya

Haze Guitars, Emerald Guitars, couple others.

Until you've built about 20 guitars perfectly, don't even think of starting a guitar company. You won't make a hell of a lot of money and it will be stupidly hard work.

Check out www.projectguitar.com if you want to know more about building guitars.

Oh, and post pics of the guitars you've made

Custom22

Yeah, do post pics. How much did the first guitar cost to make? Acoustic or electric?

Eoin Madsen

Afaik, there are a couple of places in the UK that do courses in guitar making. Go googling and see what comes up.

jinxed

i don't want to start a guitar company just yet i just want to learn and work at it.

the first one i made was an electric only cost me E20 for the wood (sycamore), E50 for all the hardware (got the single-coils out of a busted old squire off a friend and a set of grovers off an eejit who didn't know what they were), E25 for a right-handed strat neck that i put on upside down (i'm left-handed) and i painted it my self (it's not that bad i'm an art student).

the only pics i've got of it are of when it was half done and i can't take any more cos i left it in a friends house.

feylya

Half done pics are better than none. Sycamore? That must weigh a ton!

jinxed

it's actually really light, i have an epiphone les paul standard plus and that's like twice it's weight.

how do i attach pics to my posts

feylya

Post Reply - Manage Attachments - upload pics.

jinxed

thanks here you go
these are really bad

feylya

Interesting shape :eek:

What hardware did you put on it?

jinxed

it's upside down

feylya

Yeah, I figured that. The back of it isn't smooth though. Looks like a twisted ESP Viper.

jinxed

three single coils, nickel grovers, nickel tune-o-matic bridge and tone knobs
i also custom cut a scratch plate that looks really good on it.
took ages to contour it.

feylya

Cool. Any plans for your second one?

jinxed

i'm actually working on two
another electric but this time it's a single-cut and i have a couple of seymour duncan p90 for it.
i've only just starting on my third one though, it's a classical, i'm reading up on bracing and stuff but i have it designed.

feylya

Good stuff. I wouldn't know where to begin with an acoustic.

Creamy Goodness

woow

completely off topic but in that first picture can anyone make out the skull? that is the knots in the wood and the way the picture is taken?

that's pretty cool


*EDIT* added attachment to show what i mean

feylya

Face on Mars tbh.

DiamondJQuimby

Search for this string on Amazon.com

"Building Electric Guitars"

I would post a link but it doesn't seem to work.

I can recommend the first book By Martin Koch. Really detailed stuff he goes in to everything to do with theory through to contruction even making jigs for repeating the process and simplifying construction.

I have made about four guitars now with my old man and the first one we did we had no book and no internet either we just had to copy another guitar we got our hands on. But this book is invaluable.

I have another of the books up there from Melvyn Hiscock not as detailed as the first one but probably an easier read.

jinxed

thanks i'll try to get my hands on that book and maybe a few others

those knots do kinda look like a face but they're covered by the scratchplate now

Kenny_D

Was lookin for somethin else on the NCH website and saw this. Couldnt resist

http://www.nch.ie/whatson/concert_details.asp?eventId=2718&dateId=13857