Free guitar SVG files

Necks, frets and what cuts cleanly

A guitar is mostly neck, and the neck is the hard part to cut. Here it is drawn a little wider than life, and each fret is a short slot with a rail of material left on each side of it, so the neck stays in one strip. Strings are left out of the solid guitars because six lines would be finer than a blade can weed; the guitar outline shows three of them over the sound hole instead.

For vinyl, cut the fretted guitars at 100 mm long or more so the slots lift out without tearing. Below that, use the guitar silhouette, which has only the sound hole inside it. In wood or acrylic the tuning pegs are the parts to look after, so keep those cuts at 120 mm or longer.

Acoustic, electric or bass

The acoustic has a waisted body, a round sound hole and three pegs on each side of the headstock. The electric has two horns, two pickups and two knobs, and the bass has a longer neck and four round keys. If you are making a gift for a player, match the type they play: a bassist will notice.

How to open the files

• Cricut Design Space: choose Upload, pick the SVG, and add it to the canvas. Set the width you want; the shape is already welded.
• Silhouette Studio: Designer Edition and above open the SVG. The free Basic Edition does not, so open the DXF instead.
• LightBurn, xTool Creative Space and Glowforge: import the SVG, then set the layer to cut, score or engrave.
• Inkscape, Illustrator and Affinity: open the SVG. It is a plain filled path, so you can recolour it, add a stroke or combine it with your own work.
• Printing or sublimation: use the PNG, which has a transparent background.

Each design page lists the file’s narrowest part at seven sizes, so you can tell whether it will survive at the size you plan to cut.

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