Whilst browsing through one of the many Guitar forums I visit I came across a thread where the guy decided he was going to build a guitar from Lego. I thought this was an awesome idea, as I loved Lego when I was growing up. I thought to myself "One day, I'd like to try that!"

Shortly after this, a work colleague was selling a Black Squier Strat, with an amp for £25! I couldn't refuse, as this was the perfect guitar to build a Legocaster off of. I picked up the Guitar and Amp (which I instantly listed on eBay) and set to work.

Firstly I stripped the body of its neck and hardware, and ripped it into 3 pieces.

After completing the right wing, I built the Left one. This was almost a disaster, as I had almost no bricks left towards the end. Luckily I had just enough to finish. I wish I'd have counted how many bricks I used...unfortunately now it is impossible to tell.

After finishing the wings, I just had to dry fit them, to see how the guitar would look!

The next step was to strip, prime, and paint the body. To strip the original paint I simply used a random orbit sander. The sander made really light work of removing the paint.

After the paint removal was finished, I blasted the piece with some compressed air, to remove any dust. This made sure the surface was perfect for painting. All in all I put on 5 coats of Primer with a light sand in between, and one coat of the final colour. I chose a matt white finish in the end, which would help draw the eye to the Lego wings.

The last thing I did that day was modify the original pickguard. I used another pickguard I had to trace the pattern across and used a Rotozip tool (sort of like a Dremmel) to roughly cut the shape. I then used a half round file to get the final shape and add the bevel, so you can see the white-black-white layers of the pickguard.

My original plan had been to just epoxy the wings, to the centre of the body. While this may well have been strong enough, I thought up a better, more secure way in which to put my creation together.

First step was to drill a hole through either side of the body, through to the neck pickup slot.

The next part was very tricky. I had to undo all my hard work with the Lego, and adapt it so that a large bolt would be able to fit tightly. After working out where the hole needed to be, and re-building the Lego, I epoxied 1 bolt into each wing. This was the first time I had ever used an epoxy glue...boy is it messy work!

The final step of course, was to slide the bolts through the holes and do 'em up tight. Worked like a charm!

On the last day of the build, I had only 3 more things to sort out: The Headstock, The Controls, and the Electrics.

I started with the headstock. I took a sheet of the "thin" type Lego (I was lucky enough to have one that was a similar colour to the wood underneath) and cut it roughly to the shape I needed. Next, I drilled a few pilot holes, and screwed the Lego down securely. This would make it a lot easier to: a) get the final shape, and b) locate the holes for the tuners.

Using a combination of electric, and hand files I was able to get the Lego into the correct shape, and then I simply drilled the holes for the tuning machines. I also replaced the "heads" of the machines with Lego pieces!

After completing the headstock, I moved onto the controls. This process was very easy. I simply filled a Lego brick, and a Lego head with epoxy and pushed them onto the volume control and killswitch respectively. There is nothing quite like attention to detail!

Finally I wired her up!