Check list of parts needed:

Neck (Strat style)

Tuners

Neck Back Plate

Pickups

Volume and Tone Pot

Capacitor and wires

Output Jack

3 Way Switch (guitar only)

Strap Buttons

Saddles

5mm Tremolo Bar (guitar only)

Neck

The neck pocket was designed to be snug to accommodate variations in necks. If your neck is wider then sand the pocket until the fit is snug but not too tight. Don’t force it or you could crack the pocket. Only sand on the bass side since the longer side wall has a tendency to angle the neck towards the treble side. As with all bodies of this style you may need to put pressure on the neck towards the bass side as you tighten the screws so the strings will be centered on the fretboard.

The neck angle should be perfect as is, but I’ve had to shim the neck on a couple builds. If your saddles end up too high or too low you may need to shim your neck. I’ve never needed to use more than a sliver of a business card. Commercially sold full size shims will be too thick.

Electronics

A 3d printed jig is included to help you wire up the electronics. It holds the components in position so you can wire them up as cleanly as possible. I usually leave the pickup wires uncut so that if you should ever swap them out the wires won’t be too short in another body. The aluminum blocks inside the body are unanodized and so are conductive. The carbon top is also conductive (along its edges), so you don’t need to run a ground wire – the build will have good continuity naturally.

Pickups

This is the fiddliest part of the build. Pickups must be no taller than 24mm (DiMarzio’s won’t fit, Seymour Duncans, at 19mm, are super easy to install). The neck pickup will protrude about 4mm, the bridge about 6mm. Cut the supplied rubber tube so that it’ll be slightly compressed when the pickup is in position.

Screws are included for the pickups. Insert one through the top and slip the tube over it. A tool is included to help with this. If you think it’ll be easier with a bent tool you can hit it with a heat gun and bend it. Screw on the pickup with just a few turns to leave as much room as possible to install the second screw. The second screw will be harder to install because the pickup’s in the way. It’s easier to get the tube on the screw if you have it protrude from the tool so you can angle it towards the hole.

I highly recommend using push pull pots for coil splitting and phase shifting. This will open up a whole range of tones. You’ll need pickups with 4 leads to do this. Seymour Duncan has a great library of wiring diagrams.

You can add a 5mm tremolo bar. Make sure you screw it all the way in. It’s good for almost a half step change in pitch. The top is more than strong enough to take the flexing.

Bridge/Saddles

A bridge plate is included without saddles. The guitar takes 10.5mm saddles, the bass 19mm. They are pretty standardized and widely available from guitar shops and Amazon. The bridges are drilled for piezos if you choose to go with Graphtech saddles. You will have to drill two holes in the top for the Graphtech pot and switch.