Roasted Neck Canadian Maple DIY Electric Guitar Kit Unfinished Mahogany Body Rosewood Fingerboard Fretboard All Parts Included

The low quality of the hardware, and roughness of the workmanship is a NON ISSUEThe quality of the lumber, and the figuring of the grain blew me away. I wouldn't even expect a body like this alone for what i paid, let a lone the rest of a guitar. The neck required leveling and crowning the frets, but all holes and measurements for body and neck both were accurate. Nice tight fitting neck pocket. Neck and body BOTH require quite a bit of sanding.The bridge and tuners are basically unusable, i replaced them with inexpensive Gold wilkinson hardware, effortless install, and fixed the hardware issue for under $75. Added the pickguard and aged white accent bits for about $25. Finish i used was Linseed and Tru oil. The woods took the finish amazingly.The electronics, and pickups are VERY usable. Surprisingly usable. Solid solder joints, and usable potentiometer progression, not linear to the ear by any means, but very usable, and they feel nice. The pickups are surprisingly fantastic and i dont think ill be switching them out any time soon.I got the kit on christmas sell for $109, but even at $139 its a great deal for what you get.YOU DO NEED a bit more knowledge on setup and guitar maintenance work then with some other kits around. But as im sur the pictures show you, what you end up with is an Instrument with a value FAR BEYOND the cost of the kit.All in all, this kit + about 10 hours of work, and a little pateince, left me with one of my favorite to look at, and play guitars i think i've ever owned. I could not be more satisfied with the end result. And i'm only right at $300 into the guitar, INCLUDING hard shell case.

I like how solid the neck and body of the guitar feel overall it feels like genuine wood of a high quality and that makes it a really worthwhile buy already. I know kit guitars don't have the greatest reputation, but this one is definitely one that will reward you for any kind of patience and dedication that you give to it.Pros:This kit does come with everything. pickups, strings, tuning keys, screws everything that you could need to put the guitar together, and while most of the hardware in my kit was definitely usable and felt like it was of a fair quality I did have to replace the pickups and the guitar strings for different reasons.Cons:You will need to solder the pickups to the control plate which in and of itself is no issue if you can already solder, or know someone that can- though if this company were going to do that I wish they included a wiring diagram for those of us unfamiliar with guitar circuitsI wish this company drilled holes for the tuning key harnesses and the strings on the neck and body of the guitar. The holes are already there for the actual tuning keys and to not have holes on the back of the neck for their harness is a missed opportunity to meOnce I did get the holes drilled for the tuning key harness, the tuning pegs themselves on the telecaster feel a little claustrophobic to meOverall this is a very fun project and would make a great gift to anyone trying to learn how to build guitars or play them once finished

1) the hardware is absolutely crap and unusable. I didn't understand what this meant until I bought this guitar and it has been a massive pain. Replace all tuners, the bridge saddles . . . Everything but the pickups. Don't understand how the hardware can be so unusable. . . Buy this thing and you will understand.2) Pickups - I love them, especially the neck pickup, great tele sound. Don't know what a great tele sound is? Buy this and find out.3) Neck and body are decent and worth the price of the kit. Everything else is useless, but the body, neck and pickups are worth it. It has a very nice sound.4) not plug and play. You will need to put some effort in to this. File down the nut, replace hardware, set it up properly (if you buy this, don't take it to a guitar store to set up for you, your a DIYer, figure it out yourself using Google). Solder the Electronics, fix misdrilled holes. You will fight with the buzzing and then something else will be off. . . But when it finally comes together, it's a good guitar.5) paint it. If you're impatient like me, just throw some spray paint on and move on. If you are perfectionisty you may want to take more than 20 minutes.6) trim headstock. I thought this would be fun to design my own shape of headstock, but there is on my so much you can really do.Overall - its a guitar for a semi DIY person who will have to fight with it to make it good, but once you got it, it's a pretty sounding guitar that you will love because you're blood sweat and tears are into it.