This was my first ever guitar build and I probably push my skill level a bit. I feel I made a lot of mistakes and rushed bits and pieces mostly because I'm not to most time rich person in the world and because I had to do most of it outside on my deck so I never really had a nice safe place to leave it between coats of paint etc.
Having said all that everyone who has seen it says they're impressed, so it can't be that bad.
The most important thing is that I am very happy with it. All the electronics are behaving nicely and I managed to chase away most of the string rattles. I just letting the whole thing settle now before I go into tweaking it much more.
Now I'm finding that not playing in 15 years is a big of a reality check...the rock star in my head is not the pudgy 40 something twanging away in my living room. 8O
All I can say it thanks for making these kits. It was fun, I learned more about guitars in the last month than I had learned in the last 25 years. Every musician should have a go at crafting their instrument.