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I am about to start Uni and over the Summer made around £350 doing an internship. (Covered food and travel costs that they overestimated)
I'm not sure about pickups but am thinking that pickups from Mojo/Oil City are a bit too expensive. Does anyone have any experience with cheaper humbucker sized P90's?
The thing about kits like this is that the neck has never been finished & strung up so god only knows what will happen when you do. it will almost inevitably need a fair bit of setting up and probably a fret dress. The virtue of taking an exisiting, working guitar that you can play prior to purchasing to check it's all good and then modding it is that you already know the chassis works as a guitar before you start.
Not that I'm saying you shouldnt have a go at a self build. My main guitar is a 'Kit Strat' although I would point out that 'kit' was handmade by the extremely talented @GSPBASSES rather than mass produced to the lowest price point possible in a factory ! But yes its amazing, it's just that maybe for a first go a mod project might be a better bet for getting a playable guitar out of the other end.
Thanks for the help.
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/29002/flying-v-build#latest
Build thread above.
Personally I would look for a second hand Vintage V6 and do that up instead. Much cheaper, lots of people love their Vintages and it will allow you to spend that bit more on pick-ups and electrics without having to spend a cent on set up (usually) or fret dressing and all that malarkey.
I think you can then go the kit route when you have that bit more experience of modding, so that you can then do exactly what you want with it - ie buy the body you like, a neck from Mighty Mite or someone like that you like, then the electrics and hardware all from different places so that you wind up with something truly individual.
I'm not trying to be patronising here, just trying to help you avoid the mistakes I made. I went straight for kits (not kitbuilt, btw, someone else's) and made a right bodge job of it a couple of times before going into the individual partscasters. It was only then that I managed to get something I was properly happy with. All the kits I've built (apart from the current Les Dennis) have been sold or binned.
Be careful what you buy is all I'd say! I'd do another one but would consider either a partscaster or a kit previously vetted by others who know what they are doing
http://i1287.photobucket.com/albums/a639/matthew_goodwin1/Mobile Uploads/IMG_20160417_102544_zpseycrcj2i.jpg
The only complaint I have is that nut is a bit shit and as such the guitar has a sitar type of sound to it in certain areas. However if I could be bothered to sort that it would be a serviceable guitar.
I mostly bought mine for the fun and experimentation of bolting one together.
Thanks for the opinion, I have since bought a Vintage V6P, and as soon as the faulty tone pot is repaired by JHS, I'm sure it will sound great. Still considering a kit, but probably something else now.