⛧ Custom Modular Electric Guitar ⛧

Infernal Hails!

This is my first instructable so it may seem incomplete/basic etc sorry for that. Feel free to ask me about anything!

I am in love with compact/small sized yet still fully functional stuff, ranging from my tiny 4x4 to my petite gf to my guitar hehe... I was searching for a full scale guitar with smaller body (all unnecessary and pure esthetical/non-functional part removed) and I found Anygig guitars. Instantly bought one and oh boy that little axe was something! Sure it needed lots of updates and some retrofits, but all these are a topic for another instructables. In this instructable,I will give you a basic idea to make your own modular guitar. I wanted to have a functional travel guitar, that I could be able to use both in rehearsal/travel situations, and on stage. Rehearsal/travel means compact in size, and on stage means something unique with a style. (at least for me). So I wanted to create a modular guitar, that could be used both as a compact one and a custom designed stage guitar type. the idea I have executed here is not limited to this concept, you can use your imagination and find multiple other uses for the quick release/lock (whatever)idea that I made with gun accessories.

1. Anygig Travel Guitar (any small/compact travel guitar will do)
2. Picatinny adapter (I found this one in one of my local stores, you can improvise/use another model)
3. Picatinny rails (Polymer ones are recommended since it is much more cheaper and easier to drill/process etc)

I had some leftover guitar body parts/shaped wood from my other projects, so I used those parts as sample and look for style that looks good to my eye. I used all the parts I have and created 5 different variations for the final design. Somehow, the final variation appealed to me the most.

Since the guitar will be used more frequently than the body parts,I choose to use the picatinny rails on the guitar body, and picatinny clamps on the body parts, so the guitar will be much more simple and sleek without the moving locking screw of the picatinny clamps etc. I am sorry I did not took any detailed pictures of that step but I tried my best to show you the basic approach that I used to mount the hardware.

1. I drilled two holes on the picatinny clamps, (I showed them in red circles, and please enjoy my "aesthetically challenged" paint.exe description pic too) and countersink the inner surface, so once the clamps set to the picatinny rails, it will sit flush.
2. first I screwed the picatinny clamps to the body parts and fixed them as one body part
3. then I secured the picatinny rails inside the mounted clamps and locked them in position
4. I applied double sided tape under the picatinny rails and sticked the whole part to the guitar body (in the desired area/position)
5. carefully unfasten the picatinny clamps and remove the part from the picatinny rails without moving the rails and changing their positions on the guitar body
6. If you pull this stunt carefully, you will left with picatinny rails sticked on the guitar body, perfectly aligned with the parts that is gonna be mounted on them, and waiting to be screwed on
7. Just screw the picatinny rails and you are done

1. I had an old plaster indian trinket that lying around. I cut his face and processed it with dremel a little to give him an angry look, then give him corpse paint :) (you will see where I used this part at the end!)
2. I also added a volume control to the lower body part! (guitar gaining a volume control when this lower body part is attached)

I used two body parts and one additional part as a fake headstock, and completed the design.

I was pleased with the final design in general but wasn't happy with the fake headstock design, so updated it with a more intimidating style and now it is complete!

Added some spikes here and there, and added the little angry corpsepaint dude!