Helping with a Build your own Guitar project - Cheapcaster // Telecaster style kit - PART 1

Looking to build your own Electric Guitar from a Kit?  Here is my experience of it....

INTRO / BACKGROUND

A while back, my dad mentioned to me he was looking to take on a small project of building his own guitar.   As he is an OAP (old age pensioner) now, and doesn't have a lot of spare income to splash out whenever he gets G.A.S. 

In his youth - my father had built his own guitar from scratch and had enjoyed doing it.  Now older, wiser and more experienced - he really wanted to have a go at building a guitar from a Kit. Something for him to do as a bit of fun, but wasn't going to "cost the earth" - and would give him a satisfactory end result.

There are a large number of build-your-own (BYO) guitar kits available - with mixed reviews being posted about the kit quality etc.

One BYO Guitar kit that seemed to have fairly good reviews was the ROCKTILE Telecaster Style Kit from a company in Germany (Europe).  Musikhaus Kirstein.

Here is how they describe the kit.

Your shape - your design - your instrument!

With the Rocktile "do-it-yourself" TL Style (Bausätzen) You'll be your own custom shop.

Search out your favorite shape and you build your individual unique instrument.

In this kit you can find all the parts that you need only a few tools and a certain amount of technical skill to complete the project.

All wooden parts are pre-milled and are untreated.

You have a lot of creative freedom in the design: go for a natural satin finish or metallic high-gloss / colourful finish.  ..or keep it simple - black / white or vintage / aged moderately worked with a hammer and file ... just like you want.

"Do-it-yourself" Electric Guitar Kit

TL-Style,

>> Body: Basswood (with Ash Burl Veneer)

>> Neck: Maple screwed

>> Fingerboard: Rosewood

>> Pickups: 2x Single Coil

>> including all necessary parts

>> a certain degree of craftsmanship is required<<

Features

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Die-Cast Machine Heads

Color : Natural // Unfinished // Untreated

Pickup placement S / S

Short Scale No

Tremolo No

Price EURO 79€

I SHALL CALL IT "CHEAPCASTER"

So for around 80 EUROS - you get an electric guitar in kit form.  

So you are probably thinking - Is it ANY GOOD? 

Check out PART 2 to find out.