Electric Guitar Kit

Whilst Xan (our 13 year old) was making focaccia, Bob (12) built an electric guitar, that involved reshaping and sanding down neck and body of the guitar, painting, soldering and wiring. Well, it actually took him three weekends to built the guitar. 

This project taught Bob resilience (not that he was not resilient already!) and the completion of the project definitely increased his ”subjective valuation” of the guitar, which is beyond the IKEA Effect. Assembling Ikea furniture is easier than assembling an electric guitar kit. Bob is a self-taught guitar player, and the new guitar project made him keen to learn more about guitar playing. 

Husband ordered online the bits for the Beaton DIY-TL-12 Electric guitar DIY "Tele"project (£59,95), but he spend more on upgrade bits. Should anyone want to build your own electric guitar, then here is one option. Thorman (in Germany) has electric guitar kits, too. 

Regarding the upgrade bits. Robert replaced the original bits with Wilkinson M-Series WOV Classical Vintage Alnico 5 Guitar Tele Single Coil Pickups Pickups Set for Telecaster Electric Guitar. These genuine Wilkinson upgrade bits brings out twang and tone if you prefer rock, blues and country music. This is also known as Jimmy Page wiring.

Still missing strings, and couple of other bits.

PS: Hubby and our boys are going to built guitars out of old cigar boxes, which we received from hubby's colleague. (We don't smoke, and we don't encourage anyone to smoke either. Smoking kills.)