Greetings all,
Yesterday I received my GST-1 kit in the mail, it's technically my second kit build - I built a LP kit some 10 years ago for a school project that is quite unplayable and I had a lot of help to assemble, so I don't really count that. Some background for the build, I play in a band where occasionally I'm playing bowed guitar with a cello bow, it gets sticky rosin all over the strings and guitar so whichever guitar I use for this I can't then use for regular playing, I've been using my American Standard Strat the last while but it's much too nice a guitar to only be able to play occasionally for bowing. So I've decided to build a cheap(ish) kit guitar specifically to be used as a bowing guitar.
The goal is to build a vintage style olympic white strat with a mint pickguard, something like the below (I'm still contemplating whether or not to try some light relicing, which I'm sure might make many people's skin crawl to hear as I know it's a divisive subject!). I got the chrome hardware kit with the guitar but I plan to upgrade a number of these parts, namely the bridge, tuning pegs, pickguard (obviously) and, when the time comes to wire it all together, likely the pickups too.
Look forward to hearing any thoughts people have on the build!
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