Silent Guitar Scratch build ideas

[Simon Barden]

I'd be creative on the body fixtures. Concentrate on what 1) you actually need to support your picking/strumming arm and 2) what you need to support the guitar on your lap when sitting down. It doesn't have to look like a guitar outline. You only need a small portion of both the top and bottom curves to achieve this, so on top you could have a T-shaped attachment with the top of the T curved downwards, and an inverted T on the bottom also with the top of the T curved downwards to rest on your leg.

[Zandit75]

I'd be creative on the body fixtures. Concentrate on what 1) you actually need to support your picking/strumming arm and 2) what you need to support the guitar on your lap when sitting down. It doesn't have to look like a guitar outline. You only need a small portion of both the top and bottom curves to achieve this, so on top you could have a T-shaped attachment with the top of the T curved downwards, and an inverted T on the bottom also with the top of the T curved downwards to rest on your leg.

There are a number of other Silent Guitars out there on the market, most of them come under the banner of Travel guitars.
Here are some other designs...


This one would be workable using insulated copper pipe.