People making their own guitar, before Dr May

John Entwistle made one.

I recall hearing that Roger Daltrey made one, in his teens, before The Who really kicked off.

Oh was it Roger?

I dunno. I'm pretty sure they both did! It was pre-Who, at any rate.

Dane wrote:
Not many known guitarists did this quite frankly.
However, building your own guitar due to not having money to buy a real one has happened for decades!
Most well-known type of home-made guitar is the Cigar Box Guitar. (just google it)
And for anyone interested, watch the intro to 'It Might get Loud', where guitarist Jack White builds an electric guitar from scratch in 5 minutes.
Fascinating.

That is a great documentary, the guitar build is indeed pretty interesting, my guess is many have tried but failed early on. Mr May design and construction surpasses 99% of guitars out there, the shear versitility of it is astounding when compared to a Les Paul or Strat

Not sure about before Brian but interesting story about 35.40 minutes into this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y9KEtiQ8CM