DIY Strat (and other guitar & audio projects)

It can be a frustrating time waiting for the lacquer to dry on your cool new guitar body, so this is the perfect time to do some work on th...

Before you spray your guitar, you should really apply some sort of sealant, otherwise the lacquer (or whatever) will get sucked into the woo...

Finishing a guitar is pretty tricky. I suppose if you just want to paint it, then that would be a lot easier, but I wanted to stain mine, th...

At this point I decided to assemble the guitar, just to check that everything fitted together correctly. Obviously I would have to take it a...

OK, here are the schematics for the electrics (click for bigger image). It is viewed from below. Remember that this is based around tw...

I decided to try some fancy stuff with the electrics. I’ve always enjoyed messing about with electronics, so was a lot more confident with t...

It would have been really easy (and pretty cheap) to just buy a standard Stratocaster scratchplate (pickguard), but I wanted to make my own....