Once again, frequenters of MusicRadar's forum are pitting their wits and guitar-building skills for the £100 Guitar Challenge.
The rules are simple: build, customise or modify an existing guitar using only £100 or less for materials. Entrants can use existing parts which they must submit an approximate (and honest) value for.
The competition kicked-off on 1 February and runs until 3 March 2009. You can keep an eye on our forumites' work-in-progresses on this thread.
In the meantime, here's a success story from last year's challenge: TTony's home-made Telecaster copy. He modestly calls himself a "(very) amateur guitar builder," but it's surely a fine example of credit crunch-defying music-making…
“A unique octave bass fuzz with a built-in, 2-voice ring modulator”: The Maestro BB-1 Brassmaster is a super-rare bass octave fuzz from the ‘70s that sounds great on guitar, sells for $2,000+, and Behringer just made a $69 clone of it
“Maintain a consistently optimal neck setup, playability, and string action, regardless of changing environmental conditions”: Has Furch just made acoustic guitar setups a thing of the past with its new CNR System Active neck?
