How hard?

[alman]

Just been browsing online and saw this:

http://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_e_guitar_ki...

Anyone got any idea how easy/hard this would be? seems like a good option for if you were intending to customise/change pickups etc. on whatever you bought anyway.

Edited by alman on Tuesday 30th December 01:50

[collateral]

A bolt-on LP seems like an oxymoron to me. Changing pickups is a piece of piss compared to making one from scratch.

The main problem would be setting it up - getting the action and intonation right can be a right bh unless you know what you're doing

Edited by collateral on Tuesday 30th December 02:04

[alman]

lol well i definitely don't, and if it won't be like a 'real' les paul i doubt i'll bother, think a cheap epiphone sounds good then.

Edited by alman on Tuesday 30th December 02:29

[collateral]

alman said:

lol well i definitely don't, and if it won't be like a 'real' les paul i doubt i'll bother, think a cheap epiphone sounds good then.

Edited by alman on Tuesday 30th December 02:29

Well I don't want to put you off too much man - some guitars come set up horribly from the factory as it is!

Having said that, it would be tragic to spend hours nicely painting and screwing together something which won't even stay in tune

Edited by collateral on Tuesday 30th December 02:37

[gingerpaul]

I was pricing up how much it'd cost to build a Strat replica a couple of months ago. The price of a reasonable neck alone is that much. For that much all in I'd concerned that it'd be impossible to set up correctly. I'd worked out it'd cost £300 to build an ok spec Strat by getting all the parts separately if you are curious. I didn't bother because even then I was worried it might still be rubbish!