My wife here in the US picked up this kit for me recently as she knows I'm an avid modder of my instruments. The only catch was that I don't get to start work on it until the New Year, heh. But I did have a chance to do a quick inventory check and test fit.
Anyway, I wouldn't call myself a luthier by any standards, but I built my first guitar as a teenager (twenty years ago) and still use it today - its essentially a Mockingbird with a Tele-style bridge, I wasn't interested in a Floyd at the time. Since then I've gutted and rebuilt several guitars (one particular favorite has an LED scanner bar between its pickups that runs off a rechargeable battery pack in my pocket), but this MK-2 isn't going to have such flashy mods. Its been a couple of decades since I built one from base parts, but I think I can recall the process... except maybe the fret levelling.
This one's going to be finished in a bright, solid "Beach Yellow". I've never owned a guitar with a mini-humbucker, but I'm interested to see how it turns out. Right now the only addition I've made to the kit parts is that I picked up a chrome cover for the single-coil at the bridge, since the included white cover won't match the finish or the pickguard. Gathered up the tools and supplied I knew I'd need and put them in a separate box waiting for January 1st.
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