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Make Your Own Electric Guitar

The idea of this article on making your own electric guitar is to give you a real, practical idea of the magnitude of the job and the skills, tools and raw materials needed to make your own electric guitar.

The original electric guitar was a railway sleeper with strings. The designer, Les Paul, finally marketed his invention with a guitar shape because he felt that was what people expected of an electric guitar, not because any particular shape was really necessary to make music. One thing you need to get straight on now is you will not save money by making your own guitar. If you want a cheap electric guitar, there's one with your name on it at your nearest music store.

So if you fancy yourself as a designer, you could try making an electric guitar to your own specifications but you will need certain materials to work with. The first thing you will need is a love of working with wood. The second is an arsenal of power tools like drills, routers, saws, and fiddly bits of hardware. Your environment is also crucial. You will need a workspace which is not too hot or cold or wet or dry!

When you design your home made electric guitar, you will need to know how long your neck is going to be and how far apart your frets will be. You will also have a choice of the basic shape of the head of your guitar - the part that holds the tuning pegs.

You probably already know that a pickup near the neck gives a deeper sound than a pickup close to the bridge. The placement and configuration of the pickups on an electric guitar is a science in itself.

Solid body electric guitars are usually made from maple, ash, mahogany, alder, basswood or nut because they possess proven sound qualities for guitar manufacturing. You will need to buy your wood from a sawmill in lengths rather larger than needed for guitar making, and you will need to cut the wood down to size before making your guitar. You will also need hardware like machine heads, pick guards, fret wire, bridge and whammy bar mechanism. You will also need hardware if you use a bolt-on neck.

For the electronic parts of your electric guitar, you will need pickups - single coil or humbucker, shielding to cut down hum and associated knobs, nuts and grommets.

The first job in making your own electric guitar is making a template of your instrument from plywood. The template is your exact pattern for your finished guitar, and needs to be crafted with care. If you find yourself cutting corners at this stage you may as well stop this project and continue with the home brewing you started two winters ago.

To finish off this short essay, I should mention that there exists another solution for people wanting to make their own electric guitar - the electric guitar kit.

As an example, the Yamaha EG-112PF Electric Guitar Kit contains: EGP112 Electric Guitar 2 Single coil pickups 1 Humbucking pickup Vintage vibrato system 5 position pickup switch Tremolo bar Master Volume and Master Tone controls Maple neck Chrome closed tuning hardware Bolt-on neck construction Rosewood fingerboard Basswood body No coil split Scale length: 25-1/2" (648 mm) Nut width: 1-5/8" (41mm) Radius: 13-3/4 (350 mm) Frets: 22 Color: Black with white pick guard Guitar cable included GA10 Amplifier 7 watts of power 5" speaker Volume, Tone Bass, Distortion / Clean controls Headphone jack Dimensions: 10.4" (w) x 10.0" (h) x 6.4" (d) Complete Starter Kit Electronic tuner — YT120 Special Yamaha gig bag Extra set of strings Picks Strap with Yamaha logo String winder Capo Guitar method book. I found it on Amazon while looking through 1,320,000 results for a Google search on "electric guitar kits"! Best of luck!

How to Use a Guitar Effect Pedal : Chorus Effects for the Electric Guitar

BOSS CEB-3 Bass Chorus $89 The BOSS CEB-3 Bass Chorus pedal delivers a shimmering, split-frequency chorus which adds that warm, rich chorus effect to your higher frequencies without muddying up your lows. It's the perfect chorus pedal for performing bassists, enhancing your bass lines while retaining clarity. This dedicated chorus pedal ensures you retain all the power and clarity of your original bass sound, and the low filter lets lowest frequencies ring through unaffected. The BOSS CEB-3 Bass Chorus has controls for level, low filter, rate and depth, plus LEDs showing the status of these controls at a glance.Features:Compact chorus pedal especially designed for bass guitar.Applies chorus sound to the high frequencies without altering low frequencies.Effect Level, Low Filter, Rate and Depth knobs permit precise tonal shaping.BOSS 5-year warranty.

BOSS CH-1 Super Chorus Pedal $89 The versatile BOSS CH-1 Super Chorus pedal delivers a clean, classic, swirling chorus sounds with crystal-clear highs and a unique stereo effect, variable between left and right speakers. Great for rock, jazz, country and funk, you can't go wrong with the BOSS CH-1 Super Chorus Pedal.Features:Classic BOSS chorus pedal with clean, brilliant sound for guitar and keyboards.Effect Level, EQ, Rate and Depth knobs allow for precise shaping of sound.Features Mono input and Stereo outputs for connection to dual amps.BOSS 5-year warranty.

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Carl Martin Bass Chorus Pedal Standard $322 Made exclusively for bass. Effect reached down to low B. True stereo operation; 2 switchable, independent chorus channels with indicator LEDs. Integrated, regulated 12V power supply. On and Select footswitches.

Roland JC-120 Jazz Chorus Amp Standard $999.99 Dimensions: 30"W x 24-1/2"H x 11-1/4"D. Weight: 62 lbs.. Output: 120W (60W + 60W). Speakers: 2x12". Controls (front):. Channel 1: Bright on/off, volume, treble, middle, and bass. Channel 2: Bright on/off, volume, treble, middle, bass, distortion, reverb, vibrato speed, vibrato depth, chorus; on/off, and vibrato. Controls (rear):. Channel 2: effect loop serial/parallel. Effect level: +4dBm/-10dBm. Rear jacks: . Chorus/vibrato footswitch. Reverb footswitch. Distortion footswitch. Channel 2 effect loop send/effect loop returns (L/R).

Rocktron 001-1414 Deep Blue Chorus Pedal $62.99 What is a guitar effects tool chest without a chorus? In a word: lacking. A chorus unit is standard gear in every player's arsenal. With a ton of chorus units to choose from, Rocktron now makes the choice a little easier with the Deep Blue Chorus pedal. Looking for a smooth, multi-voiced chorus, rich in depth and lush in intensity? Call on Deep Blue.Road rugged in Rocktron's tough extruded aluminum chassis, the Deep Blue is an excellent addition to your effects. A cool super bright blue LED will tell you when the pedal is on. The Rate control adjusts the speed of the modulation. Depth control adjusts the amount of modulation. Use the Intensity control to adjust the amount of chorus effect that is added to your signal how much chorus do you want? It s all here in a great package.Chorus pedals usually sound better when placed after distortion in the signal chain. Thus, if you are using stomp boxes, put the Deep Blue pedal after the distortion. If using multiple pedals, such as delays and other modulation effects, try the Deep Blue in different parts of the signal chain until you find the sound you like best. If you have an effects loop in your amplifier, try putting the chorus in the effects loop for a different sound (just follow the instructions in your amplifier manual when connecting to your effects loop).

The Boy's Chorus Book $14.99 Good, singable music, of proper range, set to purposeful text, and of such character and construction as to inspire the average boy to eager effort in singing. The natural range of the average boy is rather limited, and the selections here have been arranged with this fact in mind.Most of the selections are in two-part arrangement, and these, while primarily designed for boys, may with a few exceptions be used with equally good effect by girls' voices - soprano and alto.The subjects - words and music - are throughout, cheerful, optimistic and healthful in tone.

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Behringer FX600 Digital Multi FX Guitar Effect Pedal $29.99 <b>Behringer FX600 Digital Multi FX Guitar Effect Pedal:</b><ul><LI>24-bit high-resolution stereo effects including Flanger, Chorus, Phaser, Delay, Tremolo and Pitch Shifter<LI>Two additional parameter controls to adjust delay time, flanger rate, etc.<LI