Saga LJ-10 Student Electric Guitar Kit with Single Cutaway - Natural Finish | Beginner Guitar for Teens & Adults | Perfect for Home Practice, Music Lessons & Rock Band Performances

I have been a regularly gigging guitarist for the last 40 years. I own 13 name brand guitars. I decided to take a shot at putting together a kit guitar. I was looking for something fun to do that would end up as wall decoration. I always planned to continue using one of my American Teles, my Strat, and my LP as my primary axes for gigs and recording. This kit guitar plays so well that it is now my primary gigging guitar. I like it so much that I bought two more kits during the Black Friday deal. (The attached pictures show two of them. I have yet to put together the third guitar.) I am stunned by how good this guitar is for the price.Now for some details.What is good about the guitar:- The neck is simply great. It plays so nicely. It appears to be actual maple too. The frets are already dressed nicely, although they are a little sharp at the endpoints.- The action and the truss rod don’t need to be touched. They are nearly perfect out of the box.- The intonation is spot on.- Every guitar I have ever purchased has needed to be setup, but these needed less setup work than any of them. I had to slightly adjust the height of two strings to stop some buzzing, and I needed to raise the pickups to increase the gain, but that’s all I needed to do.- The cuts on the body are exactly where they should be. No extra drilling was necessarily.- The pickups are better than I expected. I planned to replace them with a name brand (I like S.D. PUPs) but these sound quite good. I may upgrade them eventually but it isn’t necessary to do so.What’s not so great:- I found the tuners to be unusable. They are very stiff and they slip. I replaced them after two gigs. I couldn’t live with the stock tuners anymore.- The string guides on the headstock wobble and have sharp edges. I decided to replace those at the same time I replaced the tuners.- The pickguard isn’t an exact match to a real Tele. I bought a replacement pickguard only to find that I needed to get creative about screwing it on the body.Overall, I got much more than I expected from this purchase.