Product Description

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. By using the easy to follow instructions provided and a few simple tools, the Saga TC-10 Electric Guitar Kit makes it simple. Because all of the most difficult procedures have already been done for you, all that's left to do is to choose the color or design, assemble the parts, and you are well on your way to the creation of a masterpiece.

Roll your own with this complete custom guitar kit.

Kit includes everything to build your own guitar, right down to strings. Click to enlarge.

• Kit includes all parts and instructions to build a complete, playable guitar
• All hardware is heavily nickel plated Electronics are complete and ready for installation--no soldering required
• All holes are pre-drilled
• Complete with strings and electric cord
• Available in right-handed versions only

Neck
Blank peghead shape with tuning machine holes. Solid select maple neck. Fretted rosewood fingerboard. Adjustable truss rod.

Hardware
Steel, heavily nickel-plated hardware.

Body
All-solid select basswood body. All shaping and routing complete. Maximum tone and sustain.

Pickguard Assembly
Electronic parts are mounted on the pickguard. No soldering is required.

Tuning Machines
14:1 ratio geared machines for precise tuning.

Bridge
Fully adjustable for precise intonation and adjustment.

Other
Wood is sealed for protection against humidity. Complete with strings and electric cord. Assembly and finishing instruction manual; simple and easy!

About Saga Kits
Saga offers a variety of kit models that will easily accommodate today's most popular music styles, and challenge any musician who is looking to be a little different than all the rest. Our electric guitar and bass kits come in five of the most popular body shapes and pick-up configurations found on the market today, giving the owner a chance to make his or her own signature model. For those who are into more traditional music, Saga has brought back its original banjo kit in both openback and resonator versions.

What's in the Box
TC-10 Electric Guitar Kit, Truss Rod Wrench, Instrument Cable, Strings, Assembly and Finishing Manual

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7865 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!

Bargain guitar is low on price, big on quality
The beauty of Leo F's original electric guitar design is that anyone could assemble it's components into a finished electric guitar using hand tools, and basic mechanical skills. That makes kits based on his designs a great idea.

The more time you want to spend learning how to adjust and set up your guitar, the better playing instrument you'll be rewarded with.

I've been playing electric guitar for 30 years, and I did not find anything actually defective in this kit. The pickgaurd was slightly malformed, but it does not affect the playability in the slightest. The pickgaurd and tuners were a little cheap, and I chose to replace them, but they were certainly playable.

The rest of the components were of very high quality, as good or better than anything coming from Fender's Mexico plant. The body has an extra tummy contour on the back, similar to an "S" style guitar, and the bridge is a top loader, instead of Leo's string-thru design.

One area that will require a little more than basic skill and hand tools is shaping the peghead. If you choose to skip this labor intensive, not-for-the-squeamish step, you will be playing your new guitar with a comically large paddle shaped peghead :D

Considering the value for the money, the fun and learning of do-it-yourself, and the quality of the parts, I really wanted to give 5 stars... but the cheap tuners and deformed pickgaurd made it 4 stars.

I never contacted the vendor or Saga for a replacement pickgaurd, so I have no idea what their response might have been. I had already chosen to upgrade the pickgaurd in a different color.

Cheap components
I built this kit a couple of years ago. I had fun building it, but it turned out to be nearly useless as an instrument. The neck never quite straightened enough to make it easy to play, despite adjusting the truss rod as much as I could. One of the tuners snapped in half, so I had to buy new ones. The electronic components are even worse. The volume control is finicky at best. The tone control is a joke, too. The pickups are the best of the guitar. They sounded acceptable when running through an effects box. I spent $85 to paint this guitar and it did turn out beautifully. That's the only reason I kept it. If you buy this, you may not have my experience. I see lots of positive reviews on this kit. Just be aware that some of the really cheap parts may need replacing. With enough time and money, you can probably make it playable.