Guitar Kits

Guitar kits? Yea, that's right, that's exactly what I said. After you've been playing for a while, you may decide you want to learn the "ins and outs" of guitar design and hardware. What better way than to build one yourself. Who knows, maybe you're the next Paul Reed Smith (PRS Guitars)... You could try and go the woodshop route and cut the body out, use a router to cut your holes in the body, hunt down all the different parts you need (if you know what you need). Heck, you could spend a bunch of money on just a guitar neck, let alone the wood, electronics and other hardware you need. There is another option, though.

Maybe for the first one you should just get a guitar kit. This way everything is ready to go and you can get a feel for assembling a guitar. You know, see if you like it...

If you decide you really enjoy it, you can "get down witchya bad self" and build one from scratch. You'll want to know about tonewoods, so head on over to my tonewood page . You'll get the rundown here on the best woods to get and use.

But if you take my advice and start out with a kit, my buddy Kirk over at KJGuitarstands.com has a number of different kits available. He's got acoustic and electrics, a couple different body styles, and even a bass guitar (Fender Precision) if you're into the lower ranges… We won't even talk about the ukulele here...


The kits come with everything you need except for the finish. You get all the hardware - pickups, bridges, machine heads and even scratch guards. If you think about it, it's a cool proposition to build your own custom guitar. Here's a pic of just one of the kits Kirk offers.
You can check out the guitar kits Kirk has right here.

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