Electric guitar kit ideas for a spring / summer project.

hobbio

I've just started building a Gear4Music tele kit and I'll probably end up binning everything except the body and neck. Kits are a good place to start imo as they are cheap, contain everything you need to complete the guitar but also give the option of upgrading the hardware if you'd rather use better components from the start.

My kit will be built as-is, and then I'll upgrade the hardware and electronics later.

BigMonka

Weirdly their pre-shaped bodies are cheaper than the wood blanks - confused.com

callumtaylor91

Thought this may be of interest. http://www.rockinger.com/index.php?cat=WG04&lang=eng Fits into your price bracket. 

sinbaadi

Hyster said:

I'll watch this thread with interest, I'm very tempted to have a go at a first build but £400 or £500 quid is into Ishibashi territory and I'm not sure that a self build will be better than that 

By all means get a cheap kit to start with, to learn with, but there's no reason why a careful novice with the correct approach could not do justice to parts which add up to that sort of money.

The road to "it's actually a good guitar now" might be longer, but when you get there you won't look at it the same way you do an off-the-shelf £400 guitar.