Leo Jaymz DIY Single Cut Electric Guitar Kits with Mahogany Body and Neck - Rosewood Fingerboard and All Components Included (LP Hollow)

Quality of fabrication is very poor. Neck is not a perfect fit to the body ( lose and has free play All directions). Deep scratches on the body and visible impurity on fret board top wood. Returning the item

Here's a corrected version: "They sent me two by accident, and I accidentally botched the first one with spray paint. They also applied varnish to the mahogany, making it hard to add a stain. It’s not perfect. I replaced the pickups, and the soldering and assembly were a nightmare. However, it was so worth it in the end. Mine still needs some luthier work done, but it sounds amazing—probably my best-sounding guitar I own now. The guitar sustains like a beast and plays really easily too."

Leo, not sure if this is your real name but, Boy , have you got this right! This kit is Amazing, yes, with a capital 'A'. Start with the packaging, each component individually boxed and well protected. A large instruction booklet in colour that details every step in the build process so vividly, I have had tons of kits and have never seen anything like this before. The body really IS made of Poplar and not Chinese Paulownia like so many misrepresented items for sale on line. The neck is top quality Hard Maple and very well made. The hardware kit is all individually wrapped and looks exceptional, even the chrome plating is faultless. I could go on and on but I must say, as a born cynic and Not easily impressed, I am Very Impressed! Value for money, 110%.

Ok, so this review is probably gonna be a little on the long side lol. I got this guitar with the plan to just paint it, and put it together using everything that came with the kit. MAYBE swap tuners. Buuuuuut I kinda got carried away. For finishing the body, I used automotive products. Firstly, one 11oz. can of gray Duplicolor filler primer, then two 8oz. cans of Duplicolor Inferno Red Metallic paint, then one 11.8 oz. can of Spraymax 2k high-gloss clearcoat. I used the entirety of each can on the guitar, I could probably have made do with less, but I wanted the finish to be nice and thick. (Which it is.) I wet-sanded and buffed the last layer of clearcoat. The only thing I would do different, is next time I'd start by filling the grain with a dedicated grain-filling product, as after a few months of curing it shows through a little. But not bad. I finished the neck with Stew Mac vintage amber lacquer, with a few coats of Minwax clear lacquer on top of that. It looked really nice, BUT because the color was in the lacquer itself, every time it got a little ding you'd see the bright white wood through it. If I was to do it again, I would STAIN the neck, then put clear lacquer on it. I ended up getting a neck with a rosewood fretboard off the web, and I'll use this neck in a future project after re-doing it. I will say, I was able to shape the headboard on the neck that came with the kit to a pretty fair imitation of a real Tele, I'll put that in the pictures. For pickups, it got a set of Boostrap Palo Duros. They are hand-wound, high quality, and very affordable. They sound really really nice, and they cover the exact same ground as the Fender Pure Vintage '64s at a fraction of the price! And the Fender's aren't even hand wound. For other hardware, it got Wilkinson Deluxe split shaft tuners, the string trees that came with the kit, CTS 250k pots, Oak Grigsby 3-way switch, Pure Tone full contact output jack, cloth wiring, the bridge that came with the kit, Guyker compensated saddles, no-name decorated switch plate (that turned out really nice!), Kaish pickguard and Elixir strings. (Highly recommend those strings, best I've ever played!) Then I leveled and polished the frets, set the nut height, and did an overall setup and now it plays and sounds like a dream! And, best of all, there's no other guitar in the world like it. It's undeniably, 100% no-doubt-about-it mine, through and through. The whole build was a very rewarding process, I recommend it to anyone with the patience lol. I hope this helps someone out there, and good luck with your build!

Bought this for my son and he loved putting it together and now it's his favorite guitar to play

This was a pretty fun guitar to build. I always wanted a semi-hollow LP style guitar. I chose this kit because it was reasonably priced, knowing I would upgrade some of the components. Good points: the kit came quickly; all the parts were included and nicely laid out in the packaging; the maple veneer was nicely figured and bit thicker than I expected (though still thin - be careful when sanding); the neck fit the body perfectly; the pre-drilled holes were straight and the bridge pieces fit without adjustments; there were no high frets and no obvious sprout; and the dye I used (Angelus denim) took really well. Less good points: there were no instructions included and none I could find online; there was quite a bit of glue residue on the body that needed to be sanded off; the stock pickups and tuners were just terrible, but I expected that and got replacements I am happy with; what I didn't expect was how poor the so-called solderless wiring was: the pots were wired backwards (the audio taper pots were wired as tone, and vice-versa) and the wires were badly insulated, causing plenty of short circuits. So plan to use your own pots and wires and to do some basic soldering. Overall I am very happy with the result and would recommend this kit as a project, but go in with your eyes open. If this is your first build, it may be a bit frustrating.