Zebrawood Tele DIY kit - FINALLY A DECENT KIT! Bad Cat Instruments Telecaster T-style review

I was very pleasantly surprised by this kit! Nearly everything was great right out of the box. Sounds pretty decent too! This is definitely a kit that I would recommend to someone who is just getting into the hobby and wants to learn how to build guitars. It takes most of the guesswork out of building a guitar, and it's a great kit to practice your soldering and understanding of how the components work together. It's also great for practicing fretwork, learning to make a low end guitar play and sound like a high end guitar! For more information or to make a purchase, check out the link here:

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[flaviusrotarita]

You're back with the old stuff, the videos that made me suscribe

[drogers]

Good review. I like a build that is "out of the box" workable. I too have seen the kit prices jump. I blame you you tubers because you've inspired me to buy and build our instruments too. Supply and demand! Thank you Dan.

[thewrenchturner]

Can't wait to see how finishes go down on that wood. I love that your vids keep an eye out for the budget-concious viewers. Great video, keep 'em coming!

[shanedougherty]

So happy to see you back at it. Missed your videos. Can't wait to see about this guitar, I've been eying it. Thanks brother!

[tissuepaper]

Found your channel when I was yanking the frets out of my bass, years ago. Glad to see you coming back to these kits.

[MrFedoss]

Oh my! I can surely call it the most beautiful Tele-kit I've seen yet. And with an option to make it pickguardless, it is amazingly flexible to customize. Sounds brilliant and I was really surprized with the build quality.

[panda]

Yay!! Finally a new kit video! I now know your reason not to do them. Kind of gone off YouTube for a while, but it's good to be back to this videos!!! I also watch the fretless bass, it turned out beautiful Dan! This kit looks awesome too, I'll recommend it to a friend who's looking to work on a Tele of his own. See you on Wednesday!

[chrisfrench]

Dude! I love your channel!!!
Beyond unbiased and usefully informative too...and you crack me up.
Please keep this up, you help so many of us who love building our guitars.

[OldStreetDoc]

Man… I wish I had known about this a year ago. I spent much of the lockdown building a Fender Tele Partscaster to keep from going nuts. Loved doing it and it sounds awesome. I’m really proud of it & of how much building it made me learn. But this would’ve been a great first time builders kit! The Zebra wood looks AWESOME! I’ve never seen that type before, but it looks amazing.

Awesome video! Guns & guitars… two of my favorite things!

[jestertx]

Great to hear (and see) a good kit on Amazon! I’ve wanted to build a T-style guitar for a while now but have shy’d away because “good” kits are darn near the price of a Squire. I’m VERY interested in this one! Love your videos, keep them coming!

[RubyRoks]

If that thing takes stains/dyes, it'd look fantastic in purple. Glad to hear it's a good kit. I was looking at their "zebra" Les Paul kit and think i'll save up for it

[Kiobon]

With just a gloss poly finish over everything and it'll look awesome

[trinacria]

Reminds me of Stratabond necks that Martin has used. However, those have parallel lamination.

[jsteele]

Dan! The kit is nice, but I'm more impressed with how much you've improved your playing. Sounding good, dude!

[chrisshaw]

I built a LP kit like this. It is built nice but the “wood” is really soft and the frets will lift from time to time. I wish they used a different material for the fretboard.
I used black dye and it held it well. The stripes are still visible.
I did not use any of the electronics or hardware however.

[MarkMerrick]

Nice video format. Easy to watch, paced well, engaging.

[americanoboist]

Love the name of your channel ! Owner of a 1969 Tele since 1969

[renxeneize]

Always great videos, thanks for the tip on the slight angle when leveling frets on the 12th fret

[ryanrogers]

I'm really looking forward to this one, As a side note, I bought an engineered zebra wood p bass kit from pitbull guitars based out of Australia late summer 2019. The neck was maple, the body like this telle. It turned out great and took some tung oil I had laying around.

[FuzzImp]

I like that you didn’t pull punches on the frets, it’s a great project for someone to learn how to work on frets, but it’s something that does take some doing to learn to do properly. I want to snag one that just looks fun