DIY Electric Guitar Kit Beginner Kit 6 String Right Handed with Mahogany Body Mahogany Neck Rosewood Fingerboard Chrome Hardware Build Your Own Guitar.

I bought this kit if for no other reason, to counter the one single person who slammed it with a one star rating without even buying it. He presumed some electronic parts wouldn’t be included, but they are plainly visible in the product pictures. He also denigrated kits in general - but they are what they are, usually inexpensive, and for people who want to finish and assemble their own guitar, for whatever reason.So I got my kit today. Very well packed. Everything is there, including all electronics, hardware to the last screw.The neck fits the pocket very well. It’s very dry, which is no surprise, and had slight back-bow. Problem solved with neck oil and an Allen wrench.I dry fitted the neck, pickguard and other control plates, pretty reasonable fit. The pickguard is left rough cut where it goes around the bridge, which seems weird, but I can make it look better.The body is clean and looks well routed. It seems very light for mahogany. My experience with other mahogany bodies was they are fairly weighty, but I’m ok with something lighter.My only concern just having opened it an hour ago, is I only see a wiring diagram for the pickups to the 5 way switch, but not for the three slider switches. They may turn out very obvious to connect, we’ll see.I’ll leave the five star rating fight up front, because this kit appears to be exactly what the seller advertised.I also liked their video showing actual assembly from start to finish.I’ll update if I find something troublesome - but all looks good so far.10-08-23 update:If you watch the assembly video on the product page over and over - and over - you’ll catch how the wiring to the slider switches goes. Basically they’re just on/off switches for the pickups- kinda pointless with the other 5-way switch, but oh well.Overall it finished up very nicely.

This build was easy. Everything fit nicely. Looks and plays great. I put pickup rings on the two double humbucks for extra touch.

I build a lot of kits and nothing has been able to rival the strat I built until now. I purchased assembled (which was super easy to assemble) and wired it and it plays SUPER well!! My only gripe would be way the wires fit, I had to cut and re solder them but other than that it’s a great value sound quality is good with just the base pickups and I suggest getting different tuners because the base ones are cheap when it comes to tuning. Other than those couple things the kit is down to the point, straightforward, simple, and fun!!

My first thought upon opening the box was "Ok, this is definitely workable. However, on closer inspection, if I proceed with this build there will need to be modifications. The most troublesome issue is that the height of the neck heel is way too tall for the depth of the neck pocket. The pocket depth is slightly less than 5/8th inch; however the heel height is 13/16th inch. Even after sliding the pick guard under the fretboard, you are left with nearly a 1/8 inch gap below the pick guard. I do not really want to have to route the pocket any deeper, so I will need to do some serious sanding on the heel, or purchase a different neck. The neck itself looks pretty true. The frets are a little rough, but nothing out of the ordinary. The pick guard is ROUGH. The bevel is uneven all the way around. And some points have been left extremely sharp (beware). The mirrored acrylic pieces/control covers (these are not chrome) have several blemishes as well, and they are slightly taller than the main guard which leaves a ridge.That being said, I am not too hopeful that there won't be further issues the deeper I get into the build. As it is the amendments needed for this kit in time and money will equal well over $100. There are aesthetic aspects of this kit that I like, so perhaps it is worth the time and money for me, but that may not be the case for others out there.

The nexk its a little dry.. but its a great proyect

This .guitar had a lot of issues. The fret sprout was so bad that you could get cut on the sharp ends. A lot of frets needed seating to level them out.While the quick-connects on the switches are a good concept, there's no way to thread them through the hole into the main cavity - I had to drill out the access hole to fit everything through.The 3 switches have no purpose. They look pretty, but add nothing to the playability of the guitar.The "whammy" bar is completely non-functional as the spring is not strong enough to return the action back to the top.

great buy