Sycamore Guitar Kit with Solid Cedar Top

Solid AAA cedar top, laminated sycamore back & sides, rosewood bridge & fingerboard, shaped nato neck, deluxe sealed tuners, micarta nut & saddle, nickel silver frets, ABS binding, plastic endpins, adjustable truss rod, abalone inlay material. Kerfing, endblocks and bracing attached. Sides are bent. Includes Hardshell Case. Instruction manual included. Requires assembly and finish (not included).

Free Bonus: Kit also includes 1 set of GHS strings, 1 set of Earthtones strings and a TN-1 Clip On Tuner. (A $28.97 Value-No Cash Value, Substitutions or Exchanges.)

* Please note: This item receives free shipping within the contiguous United States.
Customers outside the contiguous United States are asked to please contact us at info@usguitarkits.com to request a shipping quote - thank you.

Tool Kit

We have assembled all of the specialty tools you need to build our kits.

Whether you build a U.S. Guitar Kit kit, any other kit, or even from scratch, you will have a good foundation of tools for the next guitar.

Have more fun building by using the right tools for the job!

Tool Kit includes:

25 Spool Clamps

1 Binding/Purfling Router Bit Set (Bit & 4 Bearings)

1 Flush Cutter Router Bit

1 Fret Leveler File (Double Cut)

1 Single Edge Medium Crowning File

1 20" Fretboard Radius Block

1 Fret Hammer

1 Fret Cutter

1 Double Edge Fret Files Set of 3

1 Tapered Reamer

1 Bridge Clamp

1 High Grit Foam Sanding Pads Set of 4 (400, 600, 1000, 1200 Grit)

* Please note: This item receives free shipping within the contiguous United States.
Customers outside the contiguous United States are asked to please contact us at info@usguitarkits.com to request a shipping quote - thank you.

20" Radius Sanding Block

The hard "rock" maple block is used to create a slight but accurate radius on the fingerboard using PSA adhesive back sandpaper.

Sanding block can also be used with a clamp while gluing stuborn frets.

International customers, please inquire for shipping rates.

Spool Clamp

Spool clamps allow you to clamp the top of the guitar without the stress from awkward, heavy steel cabinet clamps. Typically, 25 spool clamps will be enough clamps to get you good pressure all the way around. You can never have too many clamps, especially if you are working on muliple guitars at once.

International customers, please inquire for shipping rates.

Medium Crowning File

This essential file is used for setup in either repair work or building from scratch or our kit. The file is used to precisely crown the tops of medium frets.

International customers, please inquire for shipping rates.

Fret Cutter

This flush ground cutter will trim frets super close to the fingerboard to reduce the amount of filing. Rubber coated handles and hardened, profiled, polished steel.

International customers, please inquire for shipping rates.

High Grit, Polishing, Foam Sanding Pads

P400/P600/P1000/P1500/4PSP

These high quality, high grit pads are excellent to polish the fingerboard before you hammer the frets.

Be sure to progress slowly through all the grits to get a scratch free surface.

P400-320, P600-500, P1000-800, P1500-1200

Set includes one each of the four different sanding pads.

International customers, please inquire for shipping rates.

Combo Kits

* One solid AAA spruce top, laminated sapele back & sides

* One solid AAA cedar top, laminated sycamore back & sides

* Each kit includes a rosewood bridge & fingerboard, shaped nato neck, deluxe sealed tuners, micarta nut & saddle, nickel silver frets, ABS binding, plastic endpins, adjustable truss rod, abalone inlay material. Kerfing, endblocks and bracing attached. Sides are bent. Includes Hardshell Case. Instruction manual included. Requires assembly and finish (not included).

Free Bonus: Includes 2 sets of strings per guitar and one (1) TN-1 Clip Tuner. (A $42.95 Value-No Cash Value, Substitutions or Exchanges.)

* Please note: This item receives free shipping within the contiguous United States.
Customers outside the contiguous United States are asked to please contact us at info@usguitarkits.com to request a shipping quote - thank you.

Earthtone Strings from Kerly Music

All of Kerly Music strings are seasoned through a patented metal tempering process that exposes them to minus 320F and plus 350F for 24 hours. Our treatment strengthens the string at the molecular level, ads tonal crispness, increases durability and dramatically resists corrosive elements that reduce the life and tone of your strings. Tuning is less frequent, and a smoother surface feel is created with stellar bendability.

Our CYCLECOAT™ process uses repetitive Hot/Cold, Hot/Cold, Hot/Cold cycles that close up the microcracks that cause tonal loss and premature breakage. It’s the microcracks in normal strings that allow a string to go dead or break quickly. We close up the cracks and our strings counteract sweat, corrosion and quick breakage.

Please note: Free shipping within Continental U.S.
International customers, please inquire for shipping rates.

Book: Guitar Building Basics-Acoustic Assembly at Home

Beau Allen Pacheco
with Tim Remus
144 pages

ArtKulture an imprint of Wolfgang Publications

Acoustic guitars make the perfect woodworking project. Whether you're a professional musician or simply an interested wood worker, building a guitar is a very satisfying project. Guitar Building Basics presents tree, start-to-finish assembly sequences. Each sequence uses high quality color photography to illustrate every step of the process; from gluing on the top and bottom of the guitar, to installing the strings and sanding the frets for a perfect set up.

The assemblies include everything from a fairly simple renaissance guitar kit to a full dreadnought guitar assembled in a professional shop. With the help of this new Guitar Building book, nearly any amateur woodworker can buy a guitar kit and assemble the whole thing at home using basic woodworking tool. The key is patience and a good set of instructions-provided by this new book with over 500 color images spread across 144 pages.

This book will provide several examples of guitar building from the perspective of unique kits from U.S. Guitar Kits and Musicmakers, to guitar making schools and high end production manufacturers, to the tools of the trade as well as finishing.

Scott Dixon was interviewed and over thirty pages of the book features those discussions on the formation of U.S. Guitar Kits, steps to build the kits as well as the U.S. Guitar Kits Class Program being held across the U.S.

U.S. Guitar Kits is proud to be featured in this most recent book on Guitar Building.

If you are ready for the next challenge in guitar building, get ready for the exclusive U.S. Guitar Kit cutaway guitar class.

The cutaway kit features a veneer Sapele back and sides with a Solid Spruce Top and a full width finger board.

The kit is packaged and assembled in the same manner as the standard dreadnought kits and includes everything you need to build a cutaway guitar along with a hardshell case.

During the class, each student will have access to all the tools needed to produce a fine instrument.

The class is limited to 4 students and is designed to give every student a lot of oversight during their build.

Each student will have the opportunity to design and make a custom headstock featuring specialty veneers and solid wood bindings.

Call or e-mail info@usguitarkits.com to for more info.
The class will be held in Woburn, MA.

This cutaway kit features Solid wood Sapele Back and Sides with a Solid Spruce Top and a bound fingerboard making the fretting an additional skill to be learned.

If you are ready for the next challenge in guitar building, the cutaway guitar is the next step.

The kit is packaged and assembled in the same manner as the standard dreadnought kits and includes everything you need to build a cutaway guitar along with a hardshell case.

During the class, each student will have access to all the tools needed to produce a fine instrument.

The class is limited to 4 students and is designed to give every student a lot of oversight during their build.

Each student will have the opportunity to design and make a custom headstock featuring specialty veneers.

Guitarmaking-Tradition and Technology
Rare-Autographed Book by William Cumpiano

Hailed by Guitar Player magazine as "perhaps the finest book on guitars ever produced," and by Booklist as "a Rolls Royce of construction guidebooks," this impressive volume is the first book of its kind to describe in depth how both steel-string and classical guitars are actually designed and built. Over 450 photographs, drawings, and diagrams reveal in exquisite detail the hows, whys, and how-to's of the traditional craft of guitarmaking, all accompanied by fascinating historical and technical notes. A comprehensive bibliography; a list of tools, materials, and supply sources; and a full index complete this uniquely authoritative reference -- and essential acquisition -- for guitar and craft enthusiasts, woodworkers, and students of instrument making everywhere.

About the Authors
Jonathan D. Natelson builds and repairs classical guitars and is a national supplier of tone woods for constructing stringed instruments. He lives in Philadephia.

William R. Cumpiano is a master guitarmaker and teacher of instrument building and repair in Amherst, Massachusetts, serving professional musicians across the country.