The iconic Fender Stratocaster shape is, for many people, synonymous with the term ‘Electric Guitar’. It is no wonder that many of us who aspire to build a guitar themselves will want to use...

A large part of guitar building involves woodworking and carpentry skills. Among these using glues to connect guitar parts is a major part of the overall build. Unlike your basic carpentry , where...

Stringed instruments and guitars, have traditionally been built with an angled headstock. It gives a nice break angle to the strings and puts pressure on the nut. This helps with intonation and also...

When building a guitar, Round-Over Router Bits, can be a very handy tool to have in your toolbox. Short of a CNC machine, routers, router bits and roundover bits in particular are a sure way to get...

For many people the shape of the Strat is almost synonymous with ‘guitar’, and if this is one of your first builds, you will find that there is a lot going on in this type of a body. Let me take...

When approaching a project such as electric guitar there are a few tools which make a big difference in the quality and speed of your work. The router is definitely one of those tools and one of the...