Product Description

Saga T-style electric guitar kit has a basswood body,shaped and routed neck, fretted rosewood fingerboard and adjustable truss rod steel and heavy nickel plated hardware and the electronic parts are mounted on the pick guard so soldering is required. This Electric Guitar Kit makes it simple if you enjoy expressing yourself through the process of making music, you are sure to love the chance to express yourself by making your own custom guitar

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8149 in Musical Instruments
• Color: Natural
• Brand: Saga
• Model: TC-10
• Released on: 2008-09-05
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 29.00" h x 19.00" w x 3.00" l,

Features

• Includes all parts and instructions to build a complete, playable guitar
• Solid select Maple neck with a fretted rosewood fingerboard Adjustable truss rod
• Body is made of all select Basswood shaping and routing is complete
• All hardware is heavily nickel plated; electronics are complete and ready for installation
• Available in right-handed versions only

Customer Reviews

Good for What It Is
First of all, this is not a Fender Telecaster. It may look like one, but it's not one. It is, though, a very workable kit, fun to build, and sounds and plays reasonably well. In fact, it does have the Telecaster twang to it. In various reviews of Saga kits that you'll read on the Internet you'll read about cheap electronics and cheap strings. I wasn't thrilled with the strings that came with the kit I built, but they're not terrible. And, the potentiometers, wiring, and shielding may not be the greatest, but everything works, was pre-wired correctly, and the pickups are pretty strong and well balanced. It's a little tricky feeding the wires from the pickups into the chamber where the potentiometers and pick-up switch are, but assembling the Saga kits is not rocket science. This is about a half-a-step more difficult than the Saga PB-10 (electric bass) kit, but that's really only because of feeding wiring through channels and the fact that you need to be careful that you get the bolt-on neck put on squarely. One thing to keep in mind, the body is treated with a sealer, so staining is not real practical, unless you sand the sealer off. Painting, or even just a lacquer over the bare, sealed wood works well. If you're looking for a reasonably priced electric guitar kit as a fun project, or to get more of an insider's knowledge of how electric guitars go together, these are worth considering. One other thing to keep in mind, though, you have to be prepared to do your own set up of string heights, intonation, and so on, but that's part of the experience! OK, so it's not a Telecaster, but you get to have some fun, just a little challenge, and it's way under $200!