Our Courses

Design Your Own Electric Guitar

Are you ready to lay down the blueprint for your very own custom guitar?

The course contains full instructions and a library of templates to create your own original guitar design and working drawing. It covers all aspects of designing a solid body electric guitar, including vital information on construction styles, wood, hardware, bridges, tuners, pickups , electrics and much more!

The design will be a real working drawing of a guitar and the course will guarantee success if you do go ahead and build.

The guitar designed in this course will be made in the next course – Build Your Own Electric Guitar.

Build Your Own Electric Guitar

To get the most from this course it is highly recommended that you have already completed my other course Design Your Own Guitar – this is why it is included here for free.

I do recommend using a pre-made fretboard for your first build but have included two methods of making your own, just in case you are determined to do it the hard way!

Joining this course gives you access to a community of builders and enthusiasts, all working through the course – and I will be live-streaming regular Q&A sessions.

You can ask me any question directly, or start an open discussion with our enthusiastic students. Remember you can watch the films over and over again.

If you want to kickstart your course, we have a kit with all the materials you’ll need to build your own guitar! Get your kit

Design Your Own Acoustic Guitar

Are you thinking of building your own acoustic guitar from scratch?
This course has full instructions to guide you through creating  your own acoustic guitar design and working drawing before you start a from scratch build. Everything you need to consider essential issues, design features, materials etc before putting chisel to wood… and much more!
The completed design will be a full scale, working drawing of an acoustic and the outline plan for success if you do go ahead and build.
The guitar designed in this course will be made in the  course – The guitar designed in this course will be made in the next course – Build Your Own Acoustic Guitar.

Build Your Own Acoustic Guitar

I do recommend using a pre-made fretboard for your first build but have included two methods of making your own – just in case you are determined to do it the hard way! We also have a ‘ready to go’ complete wood and parts kit available, and other supplies to help you on your build.

Joining this course gives you access to a community of home-builders, all working towards the same goal – and I will be live-streaming regular Q and A sessions.

You can ask me any question directly – or start an open discussion with our enthusiastic students. Remember you can watch the films over and over again.

To make your job easier, we have a kit ready for you to start working on: Get the kit here

Short Courses

Bolt On Neck

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Inlay

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Spray

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Vacuum Press

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Instructor

Mark Bailey

Mark Bailey is one of the UK’s most experienced guitar makers. He started his Guitar Making Revolution over 2 decades ago, running short courses in a community workshop and a double decker bus.

Then the internet arrived, and info became more accessible but not always easy to follow… so Mark applied the same step-by-step approach to making instruction videos and launched the digital GM revolution in 2016.

After building professionally since a teenager, he is on a mission to make it easier for everyone to achieve their guitarmaking dreams at home