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Project Guitar Kit SG Style – Part 3: Stringing and Setup

On to the third part of how I built an electric guitar. Now that the assembly is done, the stringing is next to make a playable instrument. Stringing itself is nothing special so far for someone already playing guitars regularly. Nevertheless, with the strings that came with the kit I made a really ambarassing mistake: By setting my tuning device in a wrong pitch somehow, I tried to tune the lower strings that high, that the d-string broke and the e- and a-strings were under pretty high tension.

Happy with the string height and overall playability.
In the end: Happy with the string height and overall playability.

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Project Guitar Kit SG Style – Part 1: Painting

Welcome to the progress report of my current project: build a guitar from a kit. The kit in this case is a SG style one from German store Thomann.

The kit comes with a wooden guitar body already prepared for painting. So my first task is to get some basic colour on it. Here I have chosen a plain white as the basic colour with the idea to further add some handmade drawings.

The raw body with the pickup holes masked.
The raw body with the pickup holes masked. Wood is probably Poplar or Limewood, but no info given by the manufacturer.

First step was to mask the parts I do not want to get coloured with some tape as seen above. For painting I used a simple spray paint from the local hardware store. After a first session the result was not that even and too much of the wood structure was still visible. Continue reading “Project Guitar Kit SG Style – Part 1: Painting”