From the Loftsmith Workshop

Strat-style electric guitar body (HSS)

A body for the electric guitar you want to build yourself. It's cut in sections, with a white pickguard on top that shows a humbucker slot and two single-coil slots. Change the body thickness or the neck pocket depth to suit your neck.

15 parts · 1309 g · 458 × 329 × 48 mm

by Loftsmith Workshop

Red electric guitar body with a white pickguard and three pickup cutouts
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No adjustable sizes

Ask for the sizes you want to tweak, e.g. “make the width adjustable”.

Change it in the Studio

Parts

  • body-1 · PLA · Back down

    Tail and lower bout with the bridge and humbucker route.

  • body-2 · PLA · Back down

    Neck pocket and the neck and middle pickups.

  • body-3 · PLA · Standing on its long flat seam face

    Upper bass bout.

  • body-4 · PLA · Standing on its flat neck-side seam face

    Upper horn; slides on along the 45° tongue.

  • pickguard · PLA · Face down, turned 15° on the bed

    HSS layout.

  • dowel-neck ×4 · PLA · Upright, with a brim

    6 × 28 mm.

  • dowel-horn ×2 · PLA · Upright, with a brim

    6 × 28 mm.

  • dowel-tail ×4 · PLA · Upright, with a brim

    6 × 28 mm.

Print settings

Layer height
0.2 mm
Walls
3
Infill
15% gyroid
Supports
None
Notes
Use 4 walls and 30%+ infill on body-1 and body-2 if you can set it per part. Use a brim on the dowels.

Hardware

  • Fender-style bolt-on neck (25.5 in scale, 56 mm heel)
  • 4 × Neck screws (#8 wood screws) with neck plate
  • String-through hardtail bridge · Check its screw holes against the 4 inserts (46 × 72 mm pattern).
  • 6 × String ferrules, 8 mm
  • 4 × M4 heat-set inserts
  • 10 × M3 heat-set inserts
  • 10 × M3 × 8 mm countersunk screws
  • Standard-size humbucker with screws and springs
  • 2 × Single-coil pickups with screws and springs
  • 5-way switch, 500k pots and knobs · One set.
  • 1/4 in output jack
  • 2-part epoxy

Assembly

  1. Dry-fit the four pieces on the dowels and sand the seam faces flat.
  2. Epoxy body-2 to body-1 on the neck dowels, then body-3 on the tail dowels.
  3. Slide body-4 on along the tongue and horn dowels, then clamp flat until it cures.
  4. Fill and sand the seams, then set the M4 bridge and M3 pickguard inserts.
  5. Hang the pickups from the pickguard, wire them, and screw the guard down.
  6. Press in the ferrules, then fit the bridge and the neck.

Good to know

  • The build only checked the default slider positions. I checked the slider ends by hand, so drag each one to its ends and make sure the Check tab stays green.
  • If you change several sliders at once, keep an eye on the Check tab too.
  • Check your humbucker fits the 70 × 39 mm pickguard opening, and test-fit your neck in the pocket before gluing.
  • PLA slowly creeps under string tension and softens in a hot car. If the action creeps up, reprint in PETG.
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