Sunday, October 30, 2011

Build your Own Guitars with the Electric Guitar Kits

The electric guitar kits consist of components that need to be assembled to make a guitar. These kits are used to make guitars that are of professional quality. The kits come with complete instructions about the assembling of the various parts, with holes drilled properly, without any need of specialist’s tools. All that is given in the kit is enough along with a pair of hands and few simple tools that are already present in the home. These include knife, screw driver, sand paper and a saw, which are needed to join together the parts in the electric guitar kits, and make a guitar in the simplest way.
When compiling all the components in the electric guitar kits to end up with a professional guitar, one thing that might come in your mind is that what the need of a saw in it is? There are many electric guitar kits present that have headstocks which are blank. This means that you have full choice to design it as you want. An easy way to shape the headstock according to your own style is by drawing the shape on a paper. Then tracing it on each side of the head stock and cutting it with the saw accordingly. To make it smooth, you will need to use a sand paper on the edges where you have cut it. This can help you design a unique shape, in order to customize your guitar and make it look unique.
Since the electric guitar kits do not come with a painted body, you need to decide about its paint as well. The body, made of wood is of sand color, leaving it up to you whichever paint you want to do on your guitar. You could choose any type of paint you want, and give it any color of your choice. Extra coats of paints can be given for extra shine; however, it all depends on you. You could also design the headstock accordingly. It is all up to you whether you want to paint it, or leave it with its natural sand color, by applying a transparent lacquer for the shine. Once the body and headstock is ready, the components present in the electric guitar kits can be joined together very easily. A number of screws and metal plates are present to help you join the headstock with the body.
When the task of combining of the body with the head is accomplished, the task of joining the electrics is left. All components including the switches, knobs etc are present in the electric guitar kits. The task had been difficult, had there been no instructions with the electric guitar kits. These instructions help a great deal in their assembling. There are also some electric guitar kits that come as pre wired kits, leaving no worries for the user.
Assembling all the parts in the electric guitar kits is a very easy task. In fact, the customizing option is a great one as you may have a unique guitar even though all of your friends have bought the same electric guitar kits.

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