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  • Home
  • About
  • Contact
  • Traditional Woodworking
  • Guitar Fabrication
  • Manufacturing Technology I
  • 3D PRINTING
  • CNC Routing
  • CO2 LaserCutting
    • Student Laser Projects
  • Plastics Manufacturing
  • GPHS MANUFACTURING BLOG
  Grants Pass High School Manufacturing
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Guitar Fabrication
Build your own electric guitar!

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Here at Grants Pass High School we have a unique opportunity available to our students.  Over the course of a semester students will create, design, shape, assemble and take home their very own custom handmade electric guitar.  This is a true STEM project that will challenge everyone involved and provide a cross curricular education in a hands-on environment.  We encourage parents to get involved in this program and hope that this endeavor blossoms into a course that draws students from all over our campus here in Grants Pass High.

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Skill One

What would it cost you to build your own guitar using online resources?  Open the "Guitar Anatomy and Cost Estimation Activity" pdf and use the links below to find all of the parts needed to build your own custom guitar.
Stewart MacDonald


All Parts

Luthiers Mercantile

guitar-anatomy-and-cost-estimation-activity.pdf
File Size: 251 kb
File Type: pdf
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Skill Two

Follow the link "Learn More" below to take a look at some of the support and tutorial videos we will be using during the course of the semester.
Learn More
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Skill Three

Here is some info and video links that will help you with different aspects of your guitar build;
Electronics and soldering-

How to get a clean solder joint

The do's and dont's of soldering

Soldering and wiring techniques

Wiring diagram for your guitar (2 humbuckers, 1 volume, 1 tone, 3 way switch






Learn More
To the right is the Grading rubric for your guitar.  It's pretty intense and there is a lot of attention to detail.  I cannot overstate the importance of knowing just how your instrument is going to be graded.  So take a look at it and be prepared for the final grading process.
guitar-grading-rubric.pdf
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File Type: pdf
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Where are we now?

Here at Grants Pass High School in Southern Oregon, we have a lot to be thankful for.  Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in vocational education.  Yes, College is still a critical destination for our kids but the way in which students get there has evolved.  Do you think you want to be an Engineer?  An artist?  A Scientist?  All of these areas of study can benefit from the hands-on approach we offer in our modern shops.  What if College isn't in your immediate post high school plans?  Maybe you want to enter the trades or manufacturing.  We can help you get to almost any place you want to be.  This isn't your Fathers (or Mothers or Grandparents) shop class anymore.  We teach practical applications of Science, Technology Engineering Arts and Math and we do it with a hands-on ability that is unmatched in any School District in the area.  All of this in addition to having the opportunity to create some of the most amazing and beautiful work to come out of any High School we can think of.

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