Got up three hours early today, the postman was at the door with my new baby.
Very excited.
Unpacked with mutch trepidation. Woohoo, it's all here, upgrades & all. Looks good at first glance.
The Grover tuners fit perfectly, nice & tight, zero lateral movement even done up just finger tight. Impressive. The neck to body mortise & tenon joint is a nice tight fit, the strength of this joint will be from the wood, not the glue, as it should be.
Two tiny cracks at the top of the ears, but once filled, they'll be invisible.
The state of the finish on the body at the neck body will need sone fill & work, but no biggy. The route for the bridge pickup is to small to allow the pickup to fit... Have Dremel, will fix!
The colour of the gold on the Grover machine heads doesn't match the bridge & tail pieces, but they're at the other ends of the guitar so probably no problem there... Can always get then re-plated if it bugs me after final build.
Fret work is pretty good 1 or 2 are standing a bit proud but a couple of strokes with the 12' radius beam will have that sorted in a jiffy. Then on to a re crown & over all polish.
Not much glue seepage, that's a relief.
On the whole great kit with everything there that should be there.
I'm particularly pleased with the the neck to body fit, the angle is a perfect 4 degrees, perpendicular & is really tight fit.
I'm really very impressed!
First job is to fix the bridge pickup route.
Second, fill the imperfections.
Then I've got find those dam scrapers, burnish them, & give the top, sides & back a god going over to get them flat, level, and ready for a final sand.
Can't wait.
Thanks Adam & people at Pitbull. This is a real quality guitar. Very impressive.it would have taken me 6 months or more to get to this stage if I was building from scratch.
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