Electric Guitar Kit CST-24T : Better than expected

In many ways it is better than I expected (of course, as a cheap kit, it has some flaws)

Positiv:

- first of all, it is quite cheap

- the neck is surprisingly good, nice wood, very smooth surface (very tempted not to change there anything)

- the fretwork needs only minimal adjustment (minimal levelling and polishing), the fret ends are really smooth (no need to work on that)

- the wood of the body has quite nice grain, and even it is made of 3 (or 4?) parts it is not so easy to spot the changes

- the electronic parts are easy to install

- the sound is acceptable

Weak spots:

- the sealer doesn't seem to cover the body fully and it is not very smooth on the curved surfaces, so a lot of sandig work is needed for every kind of finish.

- the fretboard wood is very dry and with open pores, takes a lot of oil

- the provided term feells very cheap, with thin, light block (changed is to a 2 point Harley Benton (Wilkinson) trem

- the routing is not bad, but could be more precise, had to make some minor routing for the neck pickup (levelling screw reached the bottom of the cavity). The holes for the neck pickup frame is a little bit too close to the neck (the neck was "bendig" the pickup frame), had to drill new ones app. 2 mm closer to the bridge

- the provided strings are not great, but I only used them for the first assembling (test assembling before I do the finishing).

Overall, it was fun to work with so far, looking forward for the finishing work and a little bit of modding (already done the term, maybe better tuners, would also try other pickups .