Don't buy this if you expect to just throw it together in an afternoon and play in the evening. Don't buy it if you don't have the ability to think on your own and have some basic building/crafting skills. It's not a first-timer kit. These are the main issues I ran into:
1:The screws for mounting the tuning knobs snapped before even bottoming out, so I had to drill them out, tap with wooden dowels and use better quality screws.
2: The connectors on the wire loom are too big to fit through the drilled holes intended for the wires in the body, so I had to cut, re-route and re-solder them.
3: The pick guard didn't fit in it's position between the pickups, so I had to adjust it by filing a wider gap in it. The machine screw and nut to attach it to the metal bracket also wasn't included. Pennies, but still...
4: The screws for mounting the bridge pickup are too short, so I supplied my own.
5: The manual skips steps and does things in a weird order sometimes, so I had to back-track and re-do some things.
Overall it's a real fun project and gives you a neat guitar in the end with loads of potential to get a custom axe for cheap IF you're willing to put in the effort. Probably won't be the last one I build from this product line. Guess that's my last warning. It's quite addictive...
