This was a perfect gift for my son. He loves it

I've been wanting to do a guitar kit for quite some time. I have years of woodworking, model-kit building, including wooden ship models, as well as metal working experience. I have lots of skills that should have made this kit a breeze. And for the most part, it wasn't too difficult, but here were the stumbling blocks:

ISSUE 1) I planned on painting mine (I haven't yet because Winter snuck up on me, so I decided to built it and play it until Spring when it warms up outside so I can spray it), BUT, I do love the look of finished wood, and had I wished to go that route, I would have been discouraged because there is a spot on the front of the body that has been filled with filler. If I were to stain this body, that spot would stand out like a sore thumb. See picture.

ISSUE 2) One of the neck holes was drilled out of position, and of course, the hole goes all the way into the neck. I fixed this by gluing dowel (don't ask me the size, I just had some scrap from building ship models) into the holes, and when dry, I re-drilled and the problem was solved. See picture.

ISSUE 3) I don't have pictures, but when putting on the fingerguard/pickup assembly onto the body, I just couldn't get the wires out of the way enough so that the pickguard would sit down flat onto the body. I had to take a Dremel with a sanding head to open the routing path a bit in the body to make clearance for the wires to travel and the pickguard to sit flat.

ISSUE 4) One of the bushings for the tuning machine-heads seemed cross-threaded right off the bat. I could find anything visually wrong, and I tried several times to make sure I wasn't cross-threading it, but it just didn't want to go down onto the threaded shaft more than a rotation or so. I finally decided to put a little oil in the bushing and force it down the threaded shaft. I would go to where I felt it was binding too much, took it back off again, cleaned the threads with a Q-Tip, and went at it again. Finally I was able to get it all the way down and to seat where it should. I'd eventually planned on replacing these anyway, so if I ruined it then it wouldn't have been the end of the world, but I didn't plan on replacing them until I tore the guitar back down to paint in the Spring.

ISSUE 5) The fret ends needed to be filed or sanded down as they're a bit rough. I expected this, so it wasn't a surprise.

PRO'S 1) Affordable

PRO'S 2) The instruction manual is very good (See pictures). Color pictures, the English was good, it didn't come across as a Chinese written manual. I actually worked in an industry translating Chinese-English into English, and this one is well written.

PRO'S 2) After setting the guitar up, tuning it and testing it, I can tell you that it has an awesome sound. For $100, you have a great sounding guitar. I recommend searching social media video channels to find tips on setting up a guitar, and you'll have a great sounding, very versatile Strat(ish) guitar.

Conclusion
I would definitly be interested in buying one of the other kits from BexGears. The problems I had, I feel, were not so bad as to deter me from buying another. It was fun, with a few stumbling blocks, but I have a great guitar that will sound great in my recordings.

The kit came well packaged and the parts for the assemblies were individually bagged. One thing I didn't notice was that one of the tuners was incorrect in that the screw tab came out the differently and didn't allow the tuners to align. I emailed them the issue and they responded right back and promised to send the correct one out the next day. I have not yet received it, but has only been a few days.
The instructions were in understandable english with clear photos and overall pretty well done. I will say they used more than one guitar for the photos and that could be confusing to some, as they use a vintage
strat routed body in one picture and a HSH style in another .
Two minor complaints - the body did not come with the hole drilled to hang it when finishing and the placement and installation of the string trees was not really covered.
Finishing the body-
There are many YouTube videos on how to finish the body, but if you are not equipped and experienced and opt to try for a factory finish beware. Between the grades of sandpaper, OSHA masks, volatile chemicals, and layers of finish to put down you can spend a lot of time and money. Different paints for different parts of the process may include vinyl sealer, primer, a sanding sealer, several coats of enamel paint or lacquer, and a couple of coats of a gloss topcoat will get you started. But wait, there's more! Next you get into the final sanding. buffing and polishing of the clearcoat for that mirror finish. If you use rattle cans for this it gets very expensive very quickly. When you total all this up you can easily double the original price of the guitar kit. But, if you are patient and meticulous, you will have a guitar finish you can really be proud of.
When it is complete I will probably update with comment on the sound and play-ability.

Will update after assembly. But it seems like a fairly nice kit for 80$. Frets are uneven out of the box, but I expected that at this price point. Don't buy this if you can't do a fret job.

My 1st kit, and 1st Stratocaster. Do not buy that to save $$. The provided electronics, tuners and strings are not rock-bottom dirt-cheap quality, but it is far from being satisfactory.
If you want to get the best bang for your bucks, get a Yamaha Pacifica. It is a wonderful instrument for the $$, and if you do not like it, you can resell it and get most of your money back.

However, if you want to have fun and learn, that kit is great. You will need tools, sandpaper, paint, wood sealant and wood stain, and some time and energy. The result will be OK, not great.

The following applies to the kit I have received:
All the screw holes are pre-drilled close enough (to me) to where they need to be
The neck and body fit is very loose with a very visible gap, so you will need your woodworker skills here
The neck required frets adjustments, a few were not installed deep enough
The frets were well trimmed, and no work was needed here like with cheap Rogue Electric guitars (paid my Rogue $69)
The neck was straight and not twisted, and the neck wood looks good and is smooth. It required a significant amount of fine sanding to remove the coat and get the wood stain to take.
The body was flawless, it did not require any other prep than a fine sanding before I started to paint.
Assembly is very easy, I did not need instructions, but they were provided, and there are good youtube videos on this topic.
The tuners are OK, they work and the guitar stays relatively well tuned in.
Installing the plate with the electronics was done without carving away more wood from the body, which was cleanly carved (they use a router and templates, the templates were not worn out)
One easy soldering was required
I did not use the provided string, I went direct with better quality light gauge electric guitar strings.
A whammy bar is provided, but the guitar does not keep its tuning so well if you use it ...
The switch works great, and I had to lightly adjust the height of the pickups.
I was able to set a low easy-to-play action without much buzzing. There are videos for that on youtube. Look for "GCH Guitar Academy", he is awesome. This action preparation and setup is the most important step, at least to me.

Did I have fun working on it? Yes!
Do I like the end result? Not really, because I have a better Yamaha Pacifica, so there is no urge feeling for me to grab this guitar.
It does a good job as a beginner guitar, and I will gift that guitar to a friend who wants to start playing. The action makes it very playable. The sound is not really recordable.

Can it be improved? Yes but, imho, it is not making any financial sense to do so.