Build Your Own Guitar

Welcome to BuildGuitar a division of Loucin Guitar Co. located in Oakville, Ontario just 30 kilometres west of Toronto. We offers an intensive course of instruction in acoustic guitar building. Students will be instructed one-on-one by Garren Dakessian and will learn every aspect of the process from start to finish and will build their very own acoustic guitar. We provide everything needed, a workshop full of tools, forms, moulds and jigs. View the gallery of the amazing guitars built by our past students. Many students have returned to build a second and third guitar.

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The Course

  • Guitar design and bracing patterns based on playing preferences & acoustic principles
  • Use of all power and hand tools
  • Making all internal and external parts from rough stock
  • Joining, planing and bracing a sound board and back 
  • Bending the sides 
  • Inserting or inlaying purfling and sound hole rosettes
  • Cutting and fitting the neck-to-body joint
  • Building, shaping and carving your neck & volute
  • Making and slotting the fingerboard 
  • Custom inlay work
  • Installing and dressing frets
  • Finishing techniques; wet-sanding, buffing and polishing
  • Final assembly/set-up to critical for superior playability

Pricing

  • The course cost of $6,799.99 includes all materials needed to create an LD, ZD, or an AD acoustic guitar. These are all “full bodied” guitars without a cut-away and finished in Satin NC lacquer. At the end of the course, you take your guitar home in a hard shell case.
  • A $750.00 non-refundable deposit is required to reserve your space. Balance of the payment will be due on the first day of the course. 
  • Now available- Custom Monthly Payment Plans (upon request). Course cost does not include any applicable taxes.
  • Students must be 21 years of age and older and have a basic woodworking skills.

Course Schedule

The Guitar Building Course can be designed completely around your schedule. We recommend 1 to 2 days or nights per week. An average students requires 4-6 months to complete their guitar. Courses run all year excluding the month of August

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