BexGears 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.

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…….

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!

The company sent me the instruction manual on-line. It's very comprehensive and well-written. The quality of the kit is very good. The body is cut well, is sanded and has had a sealer applied. The neck is as good as any Fender neck I've ever seen and requires no finishing. It can be clear-coated if one wishes to. The fingerboard is ebony, which is usually reserved for high-end guitars! There is a small chip in the finger-board near the body which is easily repairable. The fret ends are dressed and smooth and the frets are level. As to the parts, the neck plate and the four screws were not in the package. I'm assembling the guitar, as is, so I can tell how it's going to play, how the parts fit and if it can be set-up properly. The only real problem I've found, and it's a major problem, is that the screw holes for attaching the neck are too big for the screws, both in body and the neck. This is inexcusable! However I've worked around it by putting a toothpick down through the holes and then it tightens like it should. Still, this was a major disappointment. Also, the pre-drilled holes in the body for the pick guard do not all line up with the pick guard. With a little "fiddling," I was able to make it work. I haven't attached the tuning keys yet or the tremolo springs or ground wire. The tuning keys look to be pretty good quality. Today I expect to play it just to make sure it does play and can be set up properly. If that passes my inspection, I'll disassemble it and proceed with the finishing. (I don't intend to use the hardware it came with, I will use gold-tinted hardware of better looks and quality). Again, overall, it's a decent kit and the problems can be worked-around.

Nice quality kit, body and neck fit together as they should. Adjustments are easy to make, Tuning very accurate and stays in tune. Great to put your own finish on, Staining or painting both are easy to do and add unique qualities to your guitar. Sound quality is great, much better than expected with a kit build. recommend New strings, when building though. All together was a very fun enjoyable build.

Just received the kit and im very impressed with the quality of materials, definitely worth more than I paid. I'll write another review once its finished. For now, definitely a great buy.