Electric Guitar Kit ST-Style : Great fun and decent value .

I bought this kit for the experience of building a guitar. I have 2 Fender guitars a Mexican strat and a Japanese Mustang. My existing guitars were needing a little bit of maintenance and set up so this guitar was to be my guinea pig. The kit is fairly impressive upon removal from the box, everything is of a decent enough standard. I sanded it down and hand painted it with acrylic paint sanding between coats before a final coat of rustoleum clear coat and t-cut car polish. I built the guitar up and set it up with the help of various youtube vids. I was able to get a nice low action with no fret buzz. The only minor gripes I have are that the tuning machines have a few wee dead spots where you turn and nothing happens to the pitch but they stay pretty much in tune. I replaced the nut with a graph tech 42mm pt5000-00 nut which helps. I was able to get good intonation at the 12th fret and a very playable set up over all. The neck is initially pretty impressive but the fingerboard is a kind of matte material and feels very scratchy when bending notes. In conclusion I would highly recommend buying this kit for the experience of building your own guitar. I was planning to slowly upgrade this guitar over time with new locking tuners,pick ups and tremolo etc, but the scratchy feeling of the finger board has given me cause to rethink this as its never going to feel great (think Jaws blackboard scene and you'll get the idea)

Experience 10/10

Quality of wood 7/10

Quality of hardware 7/10.

p.s. 1x bridge/tremolo screw was missing from my kit so make sure you count the parts before cracking on with your build. All the best and good luck.

~EDIT. Polished the frets and this got rid of the scratchy fret board feeling. !st build inexperience.