Bass Guitar Kit P-Style : Good, then you know what to expect

I bought this for just trying to assemble and finish guitar. Well just as figured wood lump for experimentation. Kit arrived well packed. The body had blemishes, but since I was not into clear finish I accepted it. Shaped the headstock (hardest part). Painted body and neck with Montana spray cans (most time consuming part) in racing stripe fashion. And assembled it (tricky part): although everything is premade - some holes on pickguard are misaligned. I managed to screw those in, but had to use sharp knive to carve some plastic near neck pocket. Tuning keys looks (and are) cheap, but holds tuning. No soldering was required with clip on connections inside. Pots are cheap, but does the trick. Tried to play through our bassists' (I am guitarist) Hartke amp at practice and it sounded OK, but not great. Has some punk attitude to me. But I did not manage to get perfect action as a result it buzzes quite a lot - need to spend more time on this. As our bassist noted "it looks better than it feels, I'll keep my Yamaha RBX". In essence that sums up it can be as good as you will make and setup it. I enjoyed painting it and now it hangs on my wall more as decoration than instrument. So if you after good woodwork project go for it, if you want your first instrument - go for squier bass or something.