Received my FV4 kit this week! I had been checking this kit out for a while. When I saw it was available in mahogany, I finally pulled the trigger.
I'll be upgrading the pots, switch and jack. The jack has a radius to it for a rounded body, not flat like the wing of a V. Not sure about the pickups yet. I'll test them first, but will likely go with ceramic humbuckers like the ones in my old Thunderbird.
Impressions out of the box:
I could have sworn I opted for the bone nut and copper shielding, but I can find no evidence I did. I can live with the plastic nut and have ordered shielding, because you just can't not shield.
There's some inconsistent routing, but nothing I can't deal with:
Here's something, though:
The channels for the pickup leads are so high, I'm going to need action of ~1.25 cm above the fretboard on the G string:
Or I will just drill new channels.
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