Do you sell the kits you make?

These are the bits I use the most in my plunge router and laminate cutter...

I have some beasties that i use in my router bench, but i will save those for another day...
http://www.buildyourownguitar.com.au...7572-image.jpg

Thanks mate. Those straight ones, are they flush cut or pattern following?

They be pattern following bits :)

Great one, thanks heaps mate.

I agree with DB on a perfectly made kit guitar being between 500 to 800 (top end price must be showroom look).
scratch build with good tone woods is worth what someone will pay for it. My highest offer up to now for the Nebular is $2100 but this is Nebular number one so it will never go up for sale. The next one how ever will but if you convert it back to an hourly rate it will frighten you.

Thanks mate. I think the only way for me to price a kit build is just add up all the parts to build it without Labour and that'd be that. So the kit price plus any upgrades, cost of finish materials excluding consumables and shipping. So for a stained sta, totally stock would come in under $200.
Not worried about making money of this. My family were pretty poor growing up. I saved up to get my first real guitar, a second hand bolt on mid 90s Epi lp. My band came second in a high school battle of the bands comp in qld and we got a voucher for a music shop so we split it and I bought a jb/59 set and installed them my self. Onto becoming a chef, apprentice wage of $5.70 an hour and instead of buying guitars, I tweaked the ones I had. I guess it's always been a bit of a hobby. Now I'm in a decent paying job I can afford to buy some basic tools to build something I've always wanted, and if a mate wants me to build one for them, they can cover the cost of materials and that'd be it. Sorry for the rant, been a huge day.

As Jarrod said, if you priced up the hours vs the sale price you would have a heart attack.....
For me, its not so much about the cash (as nice as cash is) it is about the satisfaction of handcrafting a unique instrument that blows any store bought clone out of the water..

The greatest payment for me is the look of absolute and total amazement and joy when a customer plugs in and hits that first chord..... Money just cant buy that :)

Yeah see, I want to do just that, albeit on a smaller scale. I think I'll start with bodies and use sources necks til I get that down, then get necks down and start coming up with some designs.
How many goes did it take for you to build an instrument that's playable. Not satisfactory or suitable to sell, but a functional guitar?

Well, i was fortunate to grow up around craftsmen cabinet makers and learned to work with timber working tools at a very young age.
I spent many years refurbishing old bangers from pawn shops etc and by osmosis learned how they went together.
Then in my late 20’s i went to art school and learned about design etc so when i built my first it all fell in place.
I should add that the only tools i had at that time was a router, one chisel a rasp, cordless drill and a jigsaw.....
http://www.buildyourownguitar.com.au...3da1-image.jpg

Mate that's stunning! How'd you go doing the neck with the bljig saw? It looks doing scarfs or even the fenderish dip would be a pain right in arse. If I can do a Tele body a quarter that good I'd be pretty rapt