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Welcome to Guitar Building Plans

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Guitar Building Plans
The most fundamental first step in the process of build a guitar is the purchase of a complete set of guitar building plans.

The guitar building plan is your mentor, guiding you through the hills and valleys of the guitar building procedure.

This is of very particular relevance to the guitar builder just beginning his career or the person desiring to build a single guitar.


Procurement of a impressive guitar plan will get you on the proper track in this guitar building career.

What Qualities Show a Guitar Plan Posses?

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Guitar Building Plans
Selection of the guitar type is the primary step.
Choose between a classical guitar, an acoustic guitar, or an electric guitar. But that is a rather basic determination.

Acoustic Guitar Variations:
  • Guitar Body Shape
  • Back and Top Bracing
  • Body Size
  • Scale Length
  • Length of the Neck
  • Nut Width

Classical Guitar Variations
  • Body Size Including Depth
  • Top Bracing Pattern
  • Length of the Scale

Variations of the Electric Guitar:
  • Type of Body - Solid Body, Hollow Body or Semi-Hollow Body
  • What is the Body Configuration
  • Pickups: Number and Configuration
  • Scale Length

Appraise how much information there is in the guitar building plans

Dimensions: The amount and caliber of dimensioning is a very important aspect of the plans. An added bonus for you can be the availability of both US and Metric dimensions on the plans.

Notations: Every piece and part should be meticulously noted in exhaustive detail. A poor set of plans will save you no money. If there are mistakes or insufficient information on the plans this will result in errors and improper operations, especially significant to the beginning guitar maker.

Cross Sections: Are there body and neck cross-sections included as part of the standard set of plans? Make sure if there are sections included and if so, are they carefully dimensioned and noted for your convenience?

Brace Layouts: The plans should not only show the bracing on the guitar top and back, the braces should be diagramed and documented with top and side views and they should be in a patterned format so they can be applied to the brace wood as a template cutout.

Templates: Are there template diagrams available? Template patterns are an invaluable asset when it comes to guitar building. If they are available, make a good set of permanent templates for each guitar shape and style guitar you make. Templates that are most popular are: Side contours, bracing layouts, headpiece layout, fret spacing and more.


Designing guitars is an art in and of itself. Do the plans exhibit this quality?

Plans At Ultimate Guitar OnLine.com

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Side Bending Jig
Our plans easily meet or exceed all the points made in this article. You will get quality plans for a very reasonable price. For more detail, visit our site today and see what we have to offer.

At Ultimate Guitar OnLine we offer a wide variety of Guitar Building Plans of both Acoustic Guitars and Classical Guitar. We also offer loads of plans the help the guitar builder more efficiently build their guitars with such specialized tool plans as:
Heated Side Bending Jig
Unheated Side Bender
Cutaway Attachment Bender
Guitar Plate Jointed Jig
Saddle Channel Routing Jig
Guitar Templates
Much more.....