
The Leo Jaymz DIY TL‑style electric guitar kit is a build‑it-yourself package that lets you assemble your own 6-string electric guitar. It comes with a solid mahogany body, a maple neck, and a maple fingerboard, as well as all the hardware and electronics needed to put it together. The body is pre‑polished and pre-drilled for pickups, so you can skip a lot of the finishing work. The kit is designed to be accessible for beginners who want to learn assembly, wiring, and setup, while also giving more experienced DIYers freedom to customize.
The Leo Jaymz DIY TL‑style electric guitar kit is a build‑it-yourself package that lets you assemble your own 6-string electric guitar. It comes with a solid mahogany body, a maple neck, and a maple fingerboard, as well as all the hardware and electronics needed to put it together. The body is pre‑polished and pre-drilled for pickups, so you can skip a lot of the finishing work. The kit is designed to be accessible for beginners who want to learn assembly, wiring, and setup, while also giving more experienced DIYers freedom to customize.
Body and Wood Quality: The body is made of solid mahogany, which is known for its warm tone and good sustain.
Neck & Fingerboard: The neck is maple, and it has a maple fingerboard with 21 frets.
Scale Length: The scale length is 25.5″, which is common for many electric guitars and gives a balanced string tension.
Hardware & Electronics: It uses a Tune‑O‑Matic style bridge, and comes with two humbucker pickups (“H‑H” configuration) for flexible tone.
Assembly Effort: The kit is plug‑and‑play for many parts: the wiring is designed with connectors, so you don’t necessarily need to solder.
Noise Shielding: It includes copper foil to reduce electronic noise in the pickup cavities.
Extras: Includes machine heads (tuners), strap, strap locks, strings, screws, and necessary hardware.
This kit isn’t just a guitar—it’s a learning tool. Putting it together helps you understand how an electric guitar works: how pickups connect, how the bridge affects action, how to control noise with shielding, and how string tension and scale work together.
These factors represent the most critical aspects that will impact your satisfaction with this product.
You do get a lot for your money. That being said I tried two kits both had issues with the necks. One came with the nut broke off and the other with it sitting way to high. I really bought the kit for the body and neck to make a partscaster.
This was my very first build. The absolute hardest part was trying to get the paint perfect. Spoiler alert, it is not perfect. I spent 2 months on it. It takes so long to let nitrocellulose clear coat dry. They say at least 2 weeks.