Leo Jaymz DIY Double Cut Electric Guitar Kits with Mahogany Body and Neck - Laurel Wood Fingerboard and All Components Included (DC)

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%.

Style: TL Poplar. My kit arrived just a few hours ago and I've only had time to look it over quickly, so these are first impressions. I've owned expensive guitars for over fifty years, including Fenders, Ibanez and Aria. Lately I've had a casual hankering for a Tele, but not wanted to pay for a real one. Plus I enjoy making things. At £80, I took a punt, knowing it could be returned simply if no good. I'm impressed. Everything you need is in the box. Everything! The body is well routed and drilled accurately. A few rough edges to the internal cross-drilling that are easy to tidy up. The maple neck looks good and so far I have only found one fret that will need a little attention. The fit of the neck to the body is superb. (I think they selectively match the necks and bodies for fit as the both have the same code written on them.) Tuners seem 'OK' - nothing special but I expect they will work just fine. Controls are silky-smooth. The wood is nice enough to use a simple oil and wax finish so I'm going to do that rather than paint the body. Remains to be seen if I get the magic 'twang' but from what have seen so far I am hopeful. With a little care during the finish and build, I think this will turn into a respectable, fun instrument. At £80, what's not to love? UPDATE. Now assembled. Fretwork is spot-on out of the box. The nut was badly fitted and poor quality. Upgraded (the nut is important). Tuners are awful; gear ratio too low making it very difficult to tune. Upgraded. Screw holes for bridge were over-size and had to be plugged. Intonation and action can be set well. However, the traditional bridge design doesn't put enough pressure on the saddles and they buzz a bit. Fortunately, the bridge includes the extra holes required to convert to string-through-body. Sound is good! Still rate this as a good buy, but dropped 1 start for the nut and tuners. Realistically, this comes in at about £130 with the upgrades, but better quality than an off-the -shelf job.

Not bad quality for a kit. Bought it as I was bored out my skull and at a loose end, assembles well, pretty simple. Took it to pieces again and sprayed it dark blue, looks professional.

Well packed, looks to be great quality wood and parts. I have yet to put it together but the manual is great and it seems an easy project.

Very pretty veneer and easy to stain! However, the fret work needs a lot of work doing. Now I realise this is a normal thing, but for many people getting a DIY kit, they may not realise the amount of work that needs to go into levelling and crowning. A fantastic kit for people who are willing to do the extra work. For those who want plug and play, look elsewhere.

Rather expensive firewood. Cheap components Heavy machine tooling damage on the face Low grade maple veneer not even worth considering staining because of the poor quality so doesn’t even have ornamental value unless a solid colour is your preferred choice. Shame as a little more effort by the manufacturer could have made a great project Neck profile uneven and requires considerable work. No soldering required as all electrical parts clipped together apparently. So where does the loose black wire go? Some more detail on wiring instructions would be helpful Nice fretboard but lots of sharp edges on frets Has potential for heavily customised build with upgrades so one star Overall, I would rather buy from another manufacturer and spend a bit more money A better option would be to buy a second hand Epiphone les Paul and strip it down for a complete rebuild with upgrades. This would provide considerably more satisfaction and value for money Sorry but this is a disappointment and I cannot recommend

Painted the body and stained the .neck. Then put it together. It all goes together fine. Some work to do. Frets were uneven and needed filing, also some sharp edges. Neck needed adjustment. Not a big deal. Adjusted to stop fret buzz. Pickups are loud and treble. Once all the adjustments were done, this plays well and stays in tune. Never had a Floyd rose before but I really like it. Changing strings a bit more involved but once you get the hang of it, it's ok. This kit comes with shielding tape but. Instructions don't mention it. You need to Google to see how to use it. Easy to do but if you don't you will get constant buzzing when playing. I wasn't expecting much but have been pleasantly surprised. Love playing it so far.

Because the body has a clear finish you have to sand it right back to get it take a stain or ally paint. The strings they supply are not good but you expect that. Other wise for the money it's excellent value. Does need a lot of adjustment to get rid of string buzz, and you should upgrade the pickups. Nice to set copper shielding included

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."

The guitar looks good on first inspection. Very nice body. The instruction book is awesome. The frets will need a bit of work as there are some sharp edges. I like how the screws are in small individual sections.

Just finished the build on the 7V and am totally satisfied. Packaging was great, sturdy boxing, hardware clearly packaged and labeled. Neck is straight, well fitted to body with matching numbers, frets were perfect, no work needed, I set action at 2.5 mm and no buzzing anywhere, inlay on fingerboard excellent, used beeswax furniture polish on neck back and fingerboard and is silky to play, tuners seem cheap but locking nut will negate any tuning problems. Body well machined, 2 piece construction matched very well in graining, just needed light sanding with 1200 grit and then used beeswax polish to bring out grain and make smooth to the touch. Pickgaurd came preloaded to ease assembly, pickups work good and sound just fine to my ears, pots turn easy with no noise, 5 position switch works as should, no flaws in pearlescent guard, Floyd Rose style bridge was a little tricky to install and setup properly but found a good online site that explained process. After reading reviews I opted to use D'Addario strings instead of ones supplied. They give great resonance and sustain. Was a nice project and for the price I ended up with a fine instrument.

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!

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