BexGears DIY ST Style Electric Guitar Kits, engraved surface natural color Mahogany Body maple neck & composite ebony fingerboard S-S-H pickup

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!

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.

I’ve built quite a few guitars from scratch, this was my first kit guitar. I usually use top shelf components for my builds, so I wasn’t expecting much from this kit. I was expecting to have to do a lot of work to make this kit go together. I’m not averse to that, I have the woodworking skills. But I was pleasantly surprised at how easily this kit went together.All the holes were drilled in the correct places, the body just needed some sanding and finish, everything else just bolted on. I didn’t even bother with the tuners that come with it as I had a set of Fender locking tuners laying around from a previous build. I did use the stock pickups though, just to see how they sound. I was pleasantly surprised here too. They actually sound pretty good! I may swap them out in the future, but the stock pickups will do just fine until then. My kit came with 500k pots, which I thought was an odd choice for single coils. I was expecting it to sound dark and muddy, but to my surprise it sounds just like a strat should.I’ve never been a huge fan of soldering, so I dig the fact that the electronics all just snap together with quick connect plugs. There was just one bit of soldering - connecting the bridge ground wire to the tremolo claw. In terms of wiring they really did make it as easy as possible.I didn’t really look at the instructions, but my kit did come with them. The neck was straight right out of the box, and the frets were halfway decent as well. The fret ends are relatively smooth, and the frets themselves just need a little polishing. Checking the frets with a fret rocker revealed there are some high frets, but there are no dead spots when the guitar is strung up.The only two things I feel I need to do to make this guitar playable is to replace the plastic nut with a bone nut and polish the frets, that’s it!As a guitar builder, I’m blown away by the value for the money here. I couldn’t even buy the raw materials to build this guitar from scratch for what this kit costs. And while the hardware isn’t top shelf, it’s a strat, so it’s simple to upgrade.One tip I can give for assembling this kit - for any screws that you might ever want to remove for any reason (to swap out pickups or tuners, etc), put a little bit of paste wax on the screw - it helps the screw go in nice and easy. Using a ceramic tip screwdriver also helps save the head of the screw.All in all this is a fantastic kit for the money. I wouldn’t hesitate to buy another one. Come to think of it, I have always wanted to build an SG…….