DIY Electric Guitar Kit - Premium Kits for Builders at Every Skill Level
What Is a DIY Electric Guitar Kit?
The DIY Electric Guitar Kit is an all-encompassing kit that contains all the elements needed to construct a fully functional electric guitar from scratch – including everything from its body, neck, fingerboard, tuners, pickups, electronics, hardware, and fixtures. A DIY Electric Guitar Kit is a matched and dimensionally compatible pre-bundled set of parts that can be assembled together as a completed instrument; it allows new builders to have access to the building process and provides existing builders with an organized and efficient building project.
Why Build Your Own Electric Guitar with a DIY Kit?
DIY electric guitar kits from Jobois is the sub-brand of Exotic Wood Zone provide musicians or woodworkers with an opportunity to create their own electric guitar. A DIY Electric Guitar Kit from Exotic Wood Zone helps bridge that annoying gap between grabbing a factory-made instrument and going full on building from raw materials like, you still get to keep the hands on work. You still get that hands-on workmanship side of a full guitar build, but you don't need advanced luthiery tools, or the sourcing of rough stock , and you definitely won’t be dealing with precision machining skills. Each kit comes with pre-shaped, pre-routed, and dimensionally matched parts, so you can spend your time on assembly finishing, and then the setup part.
What DIY Electric Guitar Kits Does Exotic Wood Zone Offer?
At Exotic Wood Zone, shipping from St. Louis, Missouri, our DIY Electric Guitar Kit collection covers the most popular electric guitar body styles and build platforms:
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Stratocaster-Style Kits - the ideal beginner electric guitar kit; familiar double-cutaway contour body with single-coil pickup routing, standard tremolo bridge layout, and bolt-on neck configuration
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Telecaster-Style Kits - classic slab body profile with single-coil bridge and neck routing; an excellent introduction to the simplest and most iconic electric guitar construction format
All our DIY Electric Guitar Kit packages consist of pre-routed guitar body, pre-shaped necks, fretted fingerboard, tuning machine, guitar pickups, control electronics, bridge hardware, and even all nuts and screws you will need to have a fully built stage-worthy guitar right out of one package.
FAQ
Yes, our selection of DIY Electric Guitar Kit is specially made for beginners. All parts come already shaped and routed to be used immediately in assembling. You mainly need the basic woodworking tools, plus sandpaper, finishing materials, and a soldering iron for the electronics wiring, and that’s about it to get from kit to a playable instrument.
DIY Electric Guitar Kits include all structural and electronic components but do not include paint, stain, or lacquer finishing materials giving builders full creative freedom over the final color, finish type, and visual direction of their instrument. For builders seeking a pre-finished starting point, our Painted Guitar Bodies collection offers a professionally finished alternative.
Explore our full DIY Electric Guitar Kit collection at Exotic Wood Zone and build the electric guitar you have always wanted your way, from the ground up.
