An Idea For An Electric Ukulele

The other day I was sifting through my scrap wood pile and found a couple of thick slabs of Mahogany that are too small to use for an electric guitar body. Not wanting to let this nice wood go to waste, I've decided to try my hand at building an electric ukulele. I thought about an electric mandolin, but ukuleles are so popular right now. I've done a rough drawing based on my Highline Single Cut body. Who knows, I may add this plan to my order page.

The Highline Single Cut Guitar Plan Is Almost Ready

I've taken advantage of the cold weather by finishing the Highline Single Cut electric guitar plan. I hope to have it ready for purchase on the eGuitar Plans order page in about a week. Before the temperatures dropped, I was able to apply the stain and spray on a black and purple burst effect. To check out my progress, visit the Highline Guitar's web site and click on the tumblr logo at the bottom of the home page.

The Super Easy Series Of Guitar Plans Is Now Available

Whew! It took a lot of work, but the new Super Easy Series guitar plans are now available on the eGuitar Plans order page. Right now there are two designs available with more in the works.

The idea behind the Super Easy Series is to help simplify construction of your guitar by developing a design for just a body that will incorporate a Stratocaster-style, bolt-on replacement neck. After all, it's the neck that gives most potential builders fits. You need specific skills and experience as well as a bunch of specialized tools to fabricate a neck and fretboard. With the Super Easy Series, all you have to do is make the body, bolt on a prefab neck, wire it up and plug it in to your amp.

So check out the new designs and let me know what you think.

Coming Soon: The Super Easy Series Of Electric Guitar Plans

It's taking quite a bit of time to get everything for the Super Easy Series together, but I hope to have two different body shape plans ready for purchase in the next few days. Each guitar shape will be available with either a hardtail, a standard tremolo or a Floyd Rose tremolo. You'll also be able to choose from a variety of pickup configurations.

The drawings are done, but I have to set up the web pages on my eGuitar Plans site. As it turns out, with all of the options, there are 15 ways you can order each plan. For two different guitar bodies, that means 30 choices. Plus, each plan will come with three files; a full size, a tiled letter and a tiled A4.

As you might imagine, this is going to take a little time to organize and push live. Hopefully early next week.

Oh, and the price for one of my Super Easy Series plans? $5. About the cost of a magazine.

Check Out Brian's Axes

Brian from Racine, WI sent me a couple photos of his two builds. The red one is a modified Kramer design and the blue one is his own creation. Pretty f**king awesome if you ask me. Love the blue finish. He told me the body is Mahogany and with those EMGs, I'll bet it sounds unbelievable.

That Pesky Virus Warning

If you're getting a virus warning when you visit my eGuitar Plans web site, clear out your browser's cache. A while back, my Wordpress blog was hacked, which resulted in the warning. Fortunately, the site was cleared by Google after I removed the old blog. Unfortunately, if you haven't cleared your cache lately, the warning will still appear.

A Revised Plan For The Super Easy Series

Based on the comments and emails I have received regarding my idea for the Super Easy Series, I've decided to tweak the plans and do what I do (and enjoy) best; wild looking designs. Single and double cuts are cool for sure, but most of my customers want designs that are unique. I may still offer the single and the double as a conservative option, but we'll see. In the meantime, I have spent hours and hours refining the shapes of the guitars I want to offer in the Super Easy Series. Right now I'm leaning toward a variation on the Vizagoth and the Icarus. Stay tuned!