In designing your own guitar personal preferences may play an important role. Do you want to play the guitar yourself? Do you (intent to) play just for yourself or do you need extra volume to cope with other instruments of the band or ensemble you are playing with? During the design of a guitar hundreds of large and small decisions have to be made. Sometimes related, sometimes not. (I have “counted” more than 200 different “decision points”!). To bring light in this complex decision process it is good to be aware of 5 main construction principles that have to be taken into...