DIY Electric Guitar Kits, okoume Body maple neck & composite ebony fingerboard

Behold, the Angel! I have just assembled my BexGears Stratocaster-Style DIY Guitar, and I am pleased with both this excellent product and the seller’s swift and dedicated customer support. This DIY kit provides a versatile platform for designing your own personalized guitar! The body is a lovely auburn-red okoume wood. The neck is already finished to a smooth sheen perfect for glissando. The pickguard is a canvas white that will suit any pigment you apply to body. The customizability of the kit is liberating. The electronic components are all connected in the pickguard assembly. Because no soldering is required, this kit is optimal for beginners who want to learn about the workings of guitar without the stress of soldering wires. The instructions are concise and include color photos. The builder is only responsible for grounding one wire to the claw, and plugging another set of wires into the input jack. This entails only trivial challenge. Despite the ease of assembly, I encountered difficulty with my electronic system which was damaged during shipping. I am grateful to the seller for working tirelessly to assist me, responding immediately to my emails, and shipping an entire replacement pickguard assembly via priority mail so I could complete my guitar. With the new electronic components installed, the instrument works flawlessly. Though you can replace the hardware to meet your preference, you will likely be surprised by the quality of the stock pickups. This guitar is ideal for the toan kings amogus who relentlessly pursue that classic cowboy Strat quack that one would expect from the timeless works of the legendary Ennio Morricone. This guitar kit has prodigious quality for its low price, however; there are some issues that hinder the product from perfection. There are no pilot holes to connect the claw to the back of the body, so you must carefully create these yourself during assembly. Certain nut slots are loose which produces a slight whistle on the open B and E strings. Some users may wish to upgrade to higher-quality hardware. The included strings do not have colored ball ends so a beginner may not know which order they are strung in. The instructions are not always clear on which screws to use during assembly. Patience and improvisation will help you through most of these issues, and these also happen to be the virtues of a good guitarist. When you purchase this DIY guitar kit, you are not just endowing your musical career with a quality instrument that you can enjoy for your entire life; you are embarking on a journey to create a beautiful work of art that is an authentic expression of who you are. One look at the customer images on this page will testify that no one will build this kit in the same way as anyone else. Through this kit, you can achieve an intimate height of personalization that cannot be attained with store-bought instruments. I would happily buy another kit from this seller in the future; perhaps an SG Style next time!

First, shipment: very fast, packed well with details of instructions. The box came in with everything and the detailed instructions for assembly in a booklet. I have built acoustic and classical guitars from begin to finished so putting this DIY guitar was almost a snap, however, I have no experience in working with pickups, electronics so the user guide for assembly was very helpful. . Second, the quality of the body and neck (with all the detailed, fret works is excellent. There is no sharp fret ends as I usually found on low-end imported guitars. Neck is straight . The body was smoothly sanded. All I needed to do was to really fine and lightly sand to prepare for a light French polish. As for the first instrument I do not plan to spend lots of work on detailed polishing. Don't want any colors on it yet. All the predrilled holes were done precisely. I showed my finished guitar to a few friends and they have their immediate interest with their order. Overall, I would give a 5 considering price, quality, workmanship with everything to make a guitar ready to play. I think a bargain and fun work.

The quality of the kit, from a purely mechanical standpoint, is quite good; the neck is straight, the body is nice and heavy, and the hardware is above average. The neck-to-body fit was nearly perfect, however, the neck screw holes were slightly off, such that I had to fill them with dowels and redrill them. The screw holes for the pickguard were also off by just a smidge, but those were easy to modify to fit. Overall, I wound up with a guitar that I would feel very comfortable spending $400-$500 on. I am a fair to moderate DIYer, but I would recommend this kit to everyone regardless of your mechanical skill level. I did do some intonation adjustments and also replaced the nut with a bone nut, but that was my choice. There are some great video's on Youtube if you're not familiar with doing intonation adjustments. I would have given it five stars were it not for the neck screw holes being misaligned. A great kit, definitely worth the money.

Was a lot of fun putting together and looks great. Plays good too! This kit is not perfect, and it's not for beginners. It's a project. You should probably know how to set up a guitar, because it will absolutely need it after being assembled; it will be unplayable until it's properly set up. There are also definitely things I would change. I really wish the pick guard had the plastic protective cover removed before the electronics were installed on it; it was a huge pain to get that off cleanly without taking it apart which kind of defeats the purpose of having it prebuilt like that. I also needed to track down a couple missing pieces of hardware, and I also had to drill a couple holes in the headstock for the string retainers, all of which I ought not have needed to do. That all being said, I loved the process and result so much that I legit ordered a second one with humbuckers and a fancy engraved pattern, gifted a third to a friend (who also loved putting it together) and even bought their smaller kids version of the kit to put one together with them. Absolutely worth the money.

This guitar was such a fun build. I hit the body with 120 grit before staining with Rubio Monocoat and it came out beautifully. You don’t need to solder any electronics but I ended up using a little on the ground connection. It took around 5 days total but it is well worth it. The strings that come with are obviously going to be cheap and they were as I was expecting. I would buy light Elixirs as that is what I have on mine now and they work perfectly with no buzzing. I was also worried about the pickups but they weren’t half bad, I may change them later on down the line but for having no soldering needed this kit really is a steal. I only have good things to say!