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Vibeworks Guitars “R” style 5-string P-J bass, alder body, maple neck, rosewood fingerboard.

One of my very favorite projects, this is a Les Paul style from Bad Cat Instruments. I won an auction for this kit in a Bad Cat Facebook group. It has a quilted maple top, a mahogany body, and a mahogany set neck. I love the binding and the quilted maple with the same binding … Read more

Here is another Bargain Musician “blem” kit purchased from an eBay seller. It has a flamed maple top with a mahogany body and mahogany set neck. My original intention was for a light green colored flamed maple top, and I used a nice blend of Keda Wood Dye that actually looked like I wanted. But … Read more

I’ve played a 4-string bass since the 1970s, but this is my first 5-string bass ever. It is an ash body with a spalted maple top, finished in Tru Oil Gunstock Finish. The neck is maple and walnut also finished in Tru Oil Gunstock Finish, and it has a rosewood fingerboard. In early 2023, less … Read more

I really wanted to try a hollow-body ES-335 style kit and found a very good selection at Pango. So, I picked one out, ordered it, and got pretty excited about it. Big mistake. DO NOT BUY ANYTHING FROM PANGO! To make a long story short, the flamed maple top had several issues, wrong parts were … Read more

This is a very nice Strat-style kit from Fistrock, available at Amazon. It has a basswood body. First I tried a green Keda Wood Dye, but the basswood did not have a pronounced grain and it came out very splotchy. So, I used a vibrant green acrylic spray paint, and finished it with a poly … Read more

My third DIY guitar kit build is a Leo Jaymz Telecaster style kit purchased from Amazon. It has a mahogany body, bolt-on maple neck, and maple fretboard. The kit came with a blade headstock that I shaped like a Fender Telecaster. This one is finished in orange Keda wood dye that I blended myself, then … Read more

This is my second DIY electric guitar kit build, a PRS style from Budreau Guitars (same source as my first DIY build.) I purchased it in May, 2022, right after finishing my first build, and completed it in about three weeks. The body is mahogany, as is the neck, and it has a maple fingerboard … Read more

This was my first DIY guitar kit, purchased in April, 2022. I had been browsing Facebook Marketplace looking for nothing in particular when I came across a listing from Budreau Guitars for a DIY Jazz bass guitar kit. Way back in the 1970s as a teenager I had an Aria Jazz, my first good bass. … Read more