Saga 6 String Solid-Body Electric Guitar, Right Handed, Natural (LC-10)

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.

Its a great Kit as far as all kits go. I would recommend to a Beginer but the wood is sealed making staining impossible. If you can spray transparent color it is the only way to enjoy the flame maple. It is great if you want a solid color and the sealant makes a smooth finish easy to achieve. I put in Seymore Duncan Puckups in and It sounds amazing. Awsome sustain. It sounds much better than what I expected. The hardware is not a crapy as exected. I dont feel compelled to replace most parts. I leveled and Crowned the Frets, so I cant really say how one would play if I had not done that. The neck has a C shape and it is my favorite neck I have ever owned. Not too thin or chunky. I tossed the pickups so I cant say how they sound. The pickups were the only parts I chucked. All other parts were competent. If you want a beautiful stained flame maple, look elsewhere. I would recommend to a friend..one other thing the flame maple is not matched on midline. Most people would never notice but still not good craftsmanship. All these kits are only good if you enjoy the struggle of your building something on your own. Don't buy if you expect to save money. You can buy a better guitar for less than the cost of Kit, paint, tools, part upgrades ect. Built this guitar for my daughter.I will buy this kit again for myself. The final product is the best guitar I have ever owned.

...if you have some experience with how guitars like this are put together and set up, it can be pretty nice (for the price).I got mine in 48hrs from Amazon. It was well packaged with no visible damage. I took everything out of the box and did a quick visual to see if there was any obvious damage or missing parts. Everything was there and looked to be in pretty good shape...particularly the body and the neck. Beautiful wood!While I was deciding on how to cut the head and paint it, I decided to put it all together to see how it fit and sounded. It went together OK... It took a little fiddling to get things to fit in their proper places. (The color coded wiring made fitting up the electrics pretty easy.) The bridge and saddle fit well. Pups and trim rings fit OK. The neck snuggled into its pocket just right. The pots fit OK but knobs didn't. Very tight and I didn't want to push too hard and break the pot. (May have to get new ones.) The rear covers didn't fit well, but can be trimmed. The tuners are loose right out of the box and won't hold a tune until you tighten the button screws a little.It strung up ok... The nut was a little high, neck angles looked OK, bridge adjusted down almost as low as it would go made the action low and light. I amped it up and was not surprised that it was pretty noisy (it may be something to do with the wiring that I'll scope out later.) It sounded OK. Pups are pretty hot (I measured 9.8K on the neck and 11K on the bridge). Tone control is decent. Pup selector works OK. No static from any of the controls. Intonation was perfect (the bridge was preset). But the first fret was set way too low. Couldn't play most of the open chords. Playing up the neck was OK til you get around the 7th or 8th frets. They were both a little high.So...I filed the nut down, reset the first fret, and dressed 7, 8 and 9 and all is well. So far so good.I just started painting today...Some complain about the crack filler/sealer...that it interferes with getting a nice grain appearance if you go with something other than a solid color. I did not find that to be the case. I masked off the top and gave the sides and back a light transparent color coat, then pulled off the masking and gave everything a couple coats of clear. I'm VERY pleased with how the grain pops! and the multi-layer binding really sets it off (It's too bad the head stock was left large to be cut cuz it would be really nice to see that binding used there as well.)So at this point, I'm very pleased.I gave the kit 4 stars because of the bad fretting and ...Without the experience gained in modding and adjusting my other guitars, this would have been a difficult build. Particularly since there were NO printed instructions. It is NOT aimed at the novice builder! However, a skilled builder can create his own masterpiece. Very satisfying!