Remember the Clarksonesque Challenge?

JookyChap

GuitarMonkey said:

For those of the Gibson school this looks good.

http://www.diyguitarshop.co.uk/kits.htm#jr

Maybe not the quality of the Faber kit but half the price.

I think that was the one @Iamf68 did and he rated it...

This could be fun

Bucket

GuitarMonkey said:

GuitarMonkey said:

I think it'd be hard to beat Thomann on prices

http://www.thomann.de/gb/search_dir.html?sw=guitar+kit&gk=&bn=

£53 for a Tele kit.

For the same money you can get one already built for you

http://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_hbt16bk_egitarre.htm

and mod it.

This'd be even better.

sinbaadi

Sounds fun, those Harley Bentons are ridiculously cheap. I quite like the idea of building from a kit, too, though.

chrisj1602

Considering how cheap those kits are on Thomann, maybe it could be a Harley Benton kit of your choice contest.

Phil_aka_Pip

Less than a month's beer money for a thomann kit? Wow, I'll have one each of V, LP, and SG. But I'd like to build a V most, because I don't already have a V.

So would the competition be about how well you built your kit, or about how imaginatively you pimped it? Or separate prizes for each category?

TTony

Phil_aka_Pip said:

So would the competition be about how well you built your kit, or about how imaginatively you pimped it? Or separate prizes for each category?

All to be thought about, if there was enough interest in the idea to make it worthwhile doing the detail thinking!

I'm not sure that we should aim for the cheapest kits, as the quality will clearly be very compromised,  we do have a couple of sampler kits on their way atm, with the intention of assessing them as viable bases for the competition.

Alnico

I'm so far in even Katie Price would get Wide Eyed !

underdog

Why not just let each person decide what kit to build, the different prices of kit would work well if there's a set budget. A cheap kit would mean more to spend on pimping it but a more expensive kit may be better out of the box but mean corners being cut on finish or using the pickups that come with the kit.

TTony

underdog said:

Why not just let each person decide what kit to build, 

I'd be looking to buy in bulk from the manufacturer.

That way we could make a little margin for forum funds to pay for the prize guitar, we'd be comparing like-with-like in terms of the competition judging, and problems encountered by one are likely to be encountered by others too - so easier to discuss and solve within the community.

Plus I think the PR angle is more interesting, so easier to generate some interest, publicity and profile for the forum.

57Deluxe

I thought this thread was going to be about reciting old children's limericks with saying THE word... Damn....

Panama_Jack666

57Deluxe said:

I thought this thread was going to be about reciting old children's limericks with saying THE word... Damn....

I heard that the bird was the word? Am I misinformed?!

IanSavage

TTony said:

underdog said:

Why not just let each person decide what kit to build, 

I'd be looking to buy in bulk from the manufacturer.

That way we could make a little margin for forum funds to pay for the prize guitar, we'd be comparing like-with-like in terms of the competition judging, and problems encountered by one are likely to be encountered by others too - so easier to discuss and solve within the community.

Plus I think the PR angle is more interesting, so easier to generate some interest, publicity and profile for the forum.

I like that idea - can it be a Junior then, pwetty pwease?

GuitarMonkey

IanSavage said:

I like that idea - can it be a Junior then, pwetty pwease?

I'd vote Junior too but lots of people like Teles so we may need 2 categories?

IanSavage

I guess we could cope with two different (fairly simple) designs?

meltedbuzzbox

GuitarMonkey said:

IanSavage said:

I like that idea - can it be a Junior then, pwetty pwease?

I'd vote Junior too but lots of people like Teles so we may need 2 categories?

Jaguar for the win

IanSavage

meltedbuzzbox said:

GuitarMonkey said:

IanSavage said:

I like that idea - can it be a Junior then, pwetty pwease?

I'd vote Junior too but lots of people like Teles so we may need 2 categories?

Jaguar for the win

I'd also go for that - in fact, pretty much anything that isn't 'yet another Strat-alike'!

TTony

I'm thinking

1.  335

2.  LP Jr

Maybe a third option?

And then putting it to the forum vote.

underdog

Junior single cut would be very interesting to me.

chrisj1602

TTony said:

I'm thinking

1.  335

2.  LP Jr

Maybe a third option?

And then putting it to the forum vote.

I think a Tele has to be in, it will be the easy option for the first-timers.

Bron_Yr_Aur

Another vote for LP Jr here, and I'm so in.