Hi all, brand new Pitbull Guitars user here! Had been daydreaming for many years about building my own custom guitars but in reality wouldn't have known were to start with neck building and the other intricacies etc. I had seen the numerous kits on ebay and thought yeah I'll probably get one of them one day to get me started. Anyway, when I was searching around on the internet I came across this fabulous company called Pitbull Guitars who were not only local, but as it turns out had a bloody awesome forum with a lot of support/videos for us first timers. So I saved up the necessary cash and put in my order for my first Pitbull kit and here I am!
As my username suggests, my name is Matt and I am heavily into metal music, 38 years old now and have been into metal since I discovered Metallica, Slayer, Sepultura, Testament, Pantera and Machine Head as a young teenager - after that, no other kind of music mattered. These days I'm a massive fan of bands like Fear Factory, Meshuggah, Decapitated, Amon Amarth, Municipal Waste, Gojira, Soilwork and Evile and as you could imagine, 'metal' guitars like Jackson V's and Ibanez RGs (I own an Ibanez RGA7 7 string) are the main guitars on my radar, however I love all guitars and appreciate the classics like Fenders and Gibsons et al. Infact that's what has drawn me to the Pitbull kits - a great range of classic models at pretty affordable prices.
So with that in mind the first kit I have ordered is a TL-1 Telecaster as it's a guitar I wouldn't normally buy if I 'came across $1500 and was forced to buy a new guitar' so I figured why not go for a Tele! It also seemed like a pretty basic kit for a first timer to get their head around. I'll start a build thread in the next couple of days.
Anyway, I hope this is the start of something bigger in the future - I'd like to build my own guitars under my own brandname one day (hey we all have to dream! ;) ) but small steps for now - just want to have some fun.
Cheers for now
Matt
