First up quick overview of Kit as it arrived.

Quite happy with maple neck, neck pocket fit is excellent, alignment is good and scale length is on the moment

Basswood body is 4 piece, two outer pieces are very different than inner two with some subtle chip out on edge but nothing that can't be sanded out

The placement of neck screws looks a little off, two of the screws are a bit too close to the end of the neck for comfort and pose a splitting risk, I can see that they tried to use a standard back plate spacing but ran out of space, we will see what the future holds, I may dowel them and redo with a slightly tweaked placement. Again a solvable problem