Got the artistic talent of a toddler? Never mind Photoshop, you’ve never even fired up Microsoft Paint? Not to worry – a virtual guitar builder can help design your dream custom guitar in just a few simple clicks!
Using a guitar customizer to test out different color, material, and hardware configurations before parting with cash is a surefirewayto ensure that you end up with something aesthetically pleasing.
Having a design or two to send over will also help to ensure that there is no confusion between you and the custom guitar builder. This was exactly what I did with my own custom guitar as English was not the luthier’s first language.
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In around 20 minutes I managed to put together the 5 crazy designs below using a custom guitar designer. How awesome is the pink binding on that 2nd one, right?!
You’ll find these toolson variouswebsites, for example, Fender and Ruokangas both have custom guitar builders that let you design a guitar and then buy your creation.
However, the Fender website is restrictedto only a few models and limited configurations. The Ruokangas toolis only useful if you want to, you know, buy a Ruokangas.
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What if you want more guitar styles, more color options, and more hardware choices? Thankfully, it’s super easy to customize a guitar using the custom guitar maker below!
Out of all of the virtual guitar builders, perhaps the most in-depth is the app from Kisekae – this is what I used to design the examples above.
The Kisekae Guitar Customizer will allow you to choose from a good number of popular guitar and bass model styles, and then let your imagination run rampant.
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Here, you can customize well-known instruments such as Strats, Teles, Les Pauls, SGs, 335s, Flying Vs, Jazzmasters, and many, many more. Check out their popular Strat customizer to envisage the Stratocaster of your dreams!
Design a guitar in almost any color under the sun, choose the tonewoods, hardware color, pickup types, binding color, and inlay material. If you can think it up, the custom guitar builder from Kisekae can probably manifest it for you.
Above is a screenshot showing the options for the body finish. As you can see, there are six parameters for colors alone within this online guitar builder.
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Hit the large ‘Start Kisekae Guitar‘ button, and, after a short period, the custom guitar designer will load with the base guitar specs.
The main feature you’ll be using is the ‘Switch Part‘ button that I’ve highlighted below in red. Hit that and a small pop-up window will appear that allows you to select which part of the guitar you’d like to work on.
Use the arrows on the right to navigate through the colors and materials available to choose from. Almost all parts of the guitar can be customized. Guitar design made easy!
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Things do get a little more complex when you decide to create a burst finish. There are six potential burst rings, all of which can be individually colored, and with separate opacities to boot!
The image below is an extreme example of going crazy with the burst options in the online guitar configurator. Here, I’ve used all six of the available parameters to create this retina-scorching axe. You’d certainly stand out on stage wielding this bad-boy!
A top tip is to head into the ‘Others‘ menu after you click on ‘Switch Part’. Here, you can change the background color to help your design stand out if its color is too close to the current background. This is useful as the default background grey color makes it difficult to see white binding, for example.
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Once you’re happy with your creation, simply hit the “generate image” button and the guitar designer will render out a picture that you can save to your computer or mobile device.
Thought you’d need to spend hours in Photoshop to design your own guitar? Not at all! Design a guitar online in minutes and share with friends, or take it to your luthier to make sure your idea comes to life.
The Emerald app was the only custom acoustic guitar builder online I was able to find. If you are aware of any other please get in touch.
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Unlike the Kisekae website above, many of these websites will actually allow you to order your custom creation once you’ve completed it!
If I’ve missed any excellent online guitar builder sites, please drop me an email. You’ll find a link to the contact form in the footer below.
Neal has been playing guitar (left-handed!) for over 20 years, and has also worked in various roles within the guitar retail industry since 2012. In his spare time he loves to travel, ride bikes, and suck at videogames. More Info
Customizable Electric Guitar / Design Process
Sign up to get mymonthly email newsletter featuring lefty guitarnews and special offers!You can unsubscribe any time. For more details, review thePrivacy Policy.3D printing an electric guitar has always been a dream of mine, but it seemed like such a daunting task. Would the body snap under the tension of the strings? Would it bend over time? Would I need to use special active pickups? Would the plastic body produce an awful sound compared to traditional hardwood? There were so many questions and surprisingly few answers to be found online.
I’m not the first one attempting this, of course. There are several articles and models available online, with some of the designs turning out very well. However, many of these printed guitars were not actually very playable, and some projects that looked nice either didn’t share the 3D model, lacked instructions, were overly complicated or were too expensive.
To understand the thought process – I was designing the guitar with the 3D printing community in mind. I want others to be able to easily follow this build and create their own awesome guitar. So before I started designing anything, I put down a list of priorities:
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From the beginning, the biggest concern was the force the strings apply to the guitar’s body and neck. While the sources slightly differ with the information on this, the consensus seems to be that it’s about 50 kg of load, depending on the string gauge (thickness). These 50 kg are trying to fold the guitar in half, trying to rip the bridge from the body, and trying to severely bend the neck.
Solving the neck problem was honestly a no-brain decision – I’m going to use a real wooden neck. While you might argue that the guitar will no longer be “fully 3d printed”, the neck is such a key and delicate part of the instrument, it would compromise the entire project if I wanted to print it (even though it is possible). Wooden necks are perfectly smooth and straight, have wear-resistant metal frets, and have a truss rod inside, which is used to adjust the relief (concave or convex bow).
Solving the bridge problem though required more thought. The bridge on an electric guitar is a small metal part that holds the bottom end of the strings. It’s usually secured to the body with a couple of screws. If we take a look at the most common guitar designs, one of the bridges might stand out to you as exceptionally suitable for a 3D printed guitar. Can you guess which one it is?
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All but one of the common guitar designs have a very small bridge, sometimes only held in place with 2 screws. However, the Telecaster bridge, that’s a different story! This large metal plate not only holds the bottom strings in place, but also integrates the bottom pickup and has up to 5 mounting holes with widely spaced screw holes, allowing for better distribution of the leverage on the bridge across the entire metal plate and the underlying printed part.
Furthermore, the Telecaster has only one additional pickup, which makes the wiring and designing easier. And lastly, the volume and tune nobs, as well as the pickup selector switch, are all mounted on another metal plate and secured to the body with just 2 screws. This massively simplifies the project, as we won’t have to integrate several knobs and switches to the guitar individually.
In our previous articles, we first talked about 3D printing guitar picks – they worked surprisingly well! And then about printing various guitar accessories, such as capos or strap locks. Check those articles out.
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With the choice being made of going forward with the Telecaster hardware, we have to source all of the parts. In general, there are 3 ways to go about this:
Buying a whole functional guitar just to take it apart right away seems like such a wrong and wasteful way to go about this. The only time this would seem a good solution would be if you find a severely damaged guitar, with the hardware and neck still in decent shape.
The problem is that buying the components individually will be expensive. Even if you go with the absolute cheapest options, you will likely spend several hundred dollars.
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Prepare for the kicker of this build – The Harley Benton Electric Guitar Kit T-Style! This kit costs just $79! And it includes all the hardware you’ll need, all pre-wired with simple
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