Double Cut Spalted Maple Build Your Own Guitar Kit

To make it short: lovely looking veener, nice presanding, not so great hardware, but thats a typical case at diy-kit guitars :-).

I built a lot of kits, but this here was my first with a set in neck. The neck and body luckily match well together, and i dont think they will fall apart :-). Also the neck is great, good level and no sharp edges.

Now to the not so great things:
- its hard to match the colour on neck and body with different woods if you stain and oil your guitar…a maple neck or maybe a veener on the headstock would have been great :-/
- the string trough bushing holes are to wide on the back (they fall out and i had to glue them in with a lot of superglue…) and the holes on the front were to narrow and must be drilles bigger by yourself (wasnt a problem for me because i wanted no bushings on the front)
- long shipping and fee for importing into europe (germany). But vibeworks isnt guilty about that, blame the gouvernment :-P

Summary: i will purchase again if i plan to do a new project. Thank you for providing such good diy-kits

PS: i replaced the stock hardware from the kit with my own hardware i had laying around. I only used the body, neck and the string bushings.

I’ve ordered a couple VibeWorks kits before this, the mustang, and the kids size S-style, and I was impressed with both. This one took it to the next level. The veneer was awesome, lots of flame, and the 2 piece mahogany body had beautiful grain as well. I opted for an easy tru-oil finish. The results are fantastic.

The neck set is easy because the fit is perfect and they set the neck angle, allowing for an easy fit and glue in. The quality of this kit was so good that I ordered another one as I was finishing the first.

Thank you VibeWorks for being a supporter of the small builder community! You are appreciated.

Seth Pressley - Pressley California Customs