BexGearsDIY Electric Guitar Kits For bass Guitar,Okoume Body maple neck & composite ebony fingerboard

Love the weight of the body and the neck is smooth. I sanded down the body to smooth out the roughness. Added a natural golden stain followed with a satin finish poly coating. The assembly was pretty straight forward although the instructions were a bit inconclusive to specific details. There was a missing mounting screw for a tuning pod but not a deal breaker. Electronics so far are pretty solid, changed out the strings that came with DR Black Beauties. The pickups sound awesome, maybe need different ones one day.

I am a Novice. Wanted to build this so I had a better knowledge of the guitar. Well packed, good woodwork. Spent a few days with sandpaper and wood lacquer to get a nice finish. If anyone has found a good set of instructions out of China, I would like to know. Some important omissions. Some electrical problems solved by BexGears. Finished product works well and look good. However, when finished you will probably have to have it set up properly at a guitar shop. There are a lot of adjustments to make it work properly.

This is the second Bex Gears kit I built. Both were fairly easy to assemble. I really like the solderless wiring system. The pickup makes bass like sounds which is all that counts. The tuners and other hardware feel like your typical inexpensive hardware nothing to write home about but they do their jobs. The only thing that I would have liked to have was the pilot hole for the string retainer predrilled on the headstock.

The bass guitar kit had everything I needed to put it together. It didn't come with instructions but was super easy to build. Its plays very well and sounds terrific. Its lightweight and comfortable on the shoulders.

This is an amazing value for what I paid! The hardware is good quality. Tone is nice and warm. The wood is beautiful! Really enjoy making this bass my own.

This kit is a good quality kit overall. The body is sanded and ready to take a finish, the neck is solid and the composite rosewood well done. The bridge and tuners are also decent quality (though I bought a Fender fat bridge to swap out on mine). It was fun to do the finish and get it ready to hook up.Where this falls apart is the electronics. On mine, the tone knob was loose and I had to pop the knob off to tighten the nut (something many newer players won't know how to do, as easy as it is). That doesn't matter anyway because the tone knob is also...decorative. As seen in the above photo, NOTHING is connected to the tone. The red wire, it appears, SHOULD be, but it doesn't even have bare wire exposed to solder it on. The wiring is also exceptionally weak, low-gauge wiring and the wiring itself looks off - some of the grounds are not soldered where they should be, for example.I purchased a set of Seymour-Duncan SPB-4 pickups to put in this and will simply be de-soldering everything to wire them in. That is a shame because this SHOULD have been a 10-minute job of cutting two leads and splicing in the new pickups. Instead it's a major project. For that alone, this kit loses two stars.IF, however, you have the know-how to fix poor electronics (which isn't rocket science), this is a solid pre-cut kit as a starter to build your own P-Bass.

The kit went together well, no instructions, so be confident in what you are doing, it is easy to do though. The only problem I had with the bass is the neck truss rod has a rounded hex head nut in it and is virtually impossible to adjust. The action isn't terrible but it is a $100.00 dollar bass neck.

Poor quality of wood. Not suitable for stain. Neck did not fit the body.