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This is an excellent step by step guide to building an acoustic steel-string by Jonathan Sevy. It's intended to be a pictorial journey through the required steps in the construction of a acoustic guitar.  Sevy uses the general approach  described by Irving Sloane in the book "Steel-String Guitar Construction" (E.P.

Paul Marossy from DIYguitarist.com built his own Wah pedal from scratch. As Paul notes, the most difficult part was building the mechanics. The linkage between the potentiometer and the foot pedal is a particular challenge in Wah and Volume pedals.

This video from Searcy String Works shows you how to make a humbucking pickup.

Form follows function with this DIY fuzzy fuzz pedal. You can make one too by following this step by step guide . Everything is explained in detail, down to the circuit layout.

You could get a similar effect by putting your RAT distortion pedal in an old sock.

This instructable shows how to make a folding guitar. The technique of folding the neck using a hinge to the body end of the neck is not new, but this guide shows a DIY version. This guide has some interesting ideas, but I would say its still in the development stage: I can't see a mechanism to lock the unfolded neck in place.

This is an ongoing project to design and build a computer controlled guitar pickup winder. Why? Because I like making machines!

This is a project for the guitar electronics geek. Traditionally guitar effects pedals used analogue circuits made up of clever combinations resistors, capacitors etc. Digital signal processing chips now allow analogue effects circuit to be simulated in software.

In the early 1980s computers were the latest thing, bleepy sounding records started appearing in the charts and the sythesizer became established in the music industry. At the same time guitar synthesizers started to appear. There were synth guitars from established keyboard synth makers like Roland, Casio, and Yamaha.

This is a PCB (printed circuit board) layout for designed for fuzz face effects unit. The circuit is designed so you can tweak the cicuit to get different tones. It uses sockets you can easily swap components in and out of your fuzz face.

This is a comprehensive picture diary from Crimson Guitars , showing the stages involved in building Robert Fripp's custom tone chambered electric guitar. The pictures show that these guitars really are completely hand made, luthier Ben Crowe puts a lot of effort into this guitar.

Following on from yesterday's post about the Alesis AirFX guitar, I thought someone must have put a Korg Kaos Pad into a guitar, and it turns out some guy called Phil has already done it. The Kaos Pad is a multi-effects unit (designed for electronic musicians and DJs) with a square touch sensitive pad.

This is a photo gallery of a project to build a practice amp out of a solid block of quilted maple. Every part of it is hand crafted, he even makes the control knobs on a lathe.

This project by John Williams shows how you can make a guitar neck using a home-built CNC machine. John built the CNC machine with plans and a kit from HobbyCNC.com. (Check out www.cnczone.com for free plans).

This project describes how to make a strobe tuner "The Tune Trainer". It is quite tricky as it involves an Arduino microprocessor and prototyping board, which can be programmed via your computer. The link below lists the other electronic bits and pieces needed and gives detailed instructions.

The tuner has two tuning modes

This project shows you how to make a cut-away in an acoustic guitar that doesn't already have one. Cut-aways help you to reach the upper frets.

CAUTION: this project is not for beginners, and it goes without saying that you shouldn't do this to a valuable guitar!