DIY luthier tools
Jigs you can
make yourself.
Forty minutes of shop-made fixtures. Most guitar building tools are simple objects with a specialist price tag, and these are the ones worth making.
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What this covers
Several jigs and shop-made tools, what each solves, and how to build them.
The principle behind all of them
A jig exists to make a difficult cut repeatable. Once you start thinking that way you stop buying fixtures and start noticing which operations in your own process are unreliable — then building something to fix exactly those.
Written companion in progress.
Watch the builds on YouTube
Full build videos, start to finish, including the parts that went wrong.
Build series · New video most months