Well The routing on a squier affinity is better , there also alder.
Also there 60$? then add shipping to that.
But yes its fun doing it yourself , he should go for it , i have done things like this and over time learned the easiest way to do something for less $ and that would be squier body
Gotta admit that you have a very good point there - and I too was rather dismayed at the huge cavern for a rout on the GF body.
But it all came out well enough in the end and it made me think a little outside the box to get it done. A good lesson I think!
I also had looked at the GF Bass Kits, and their own admission is that you'd want to upgrade the hardware to better if you were serious in building a nicer bass. Well, that's what made me pick the parts I wanted from their other pages on the GF site.
So - I guess that I didn't really buy a kit, but I bought parts from GF that added up to a kit anyway with the exception of the pots which I already had new.
After the
next bass I'm lining up to build, I'll take the GF bass apart and refinish the body differently just to see how good it can be.
I'm not unhappy with the experiences at all, and frankly - it's a good thing to play something with which you've had intimate knowledge.
In the end I don't want to even consider calling myself a luthier. That's not appropriate I think, and I haven't wound my own strings nor did I cut down my own wood - but there are levels of experience that lead one to having a fine appreciation for the artistry of a stringed-instrument builder and craftsman.
'Luthier-y should never be an attitude' is what I've learned - but an acquired skill that is open to everyone and everybody if they want to learn it.
