"Project Acoustic Guitar"???

20 bucks is not a huge risk.  I spend more than that on far lesser stuff!

All you've got to lose is the price of 1 movie and a bag of popcorn.   I say go for it!   You never know.  It could be a fantastic guitar.  Some very great things have been made by "accident" by people who didn't really know what they were doing! 

CTGull,
I can't tell you to buy it, but i can tell you, i would buy it.
A great opportunity for getting some experience, at a very low cost, it may become your favourite guitar. 😀

I wrote a post last night but never sent it!

I got it!! It's rougher than I expected, but I didn't know what to expect. The neck looks to be hand shaped, it's going to take lots of work to smooth it out. There's glue here and there from the body binding. There's probably more than a few hours left to do in scraping and sanding to prepare it for the final finish. I was originally thinking French polish but I think Tru Oil will be much easier. It also came with a pretty good hard case, worth more than what I paid.

I'm going to take a bunch of pictures and do a full write up (as usual) in a new thread to fully document the process of finishing it. Hopefully I'll get to that tonight.

He said it was 8 to 10 classes of 2 hours long and no where near enough time. He said it cost about $600 for the class.

It's a spruce top and laminated flameish maple back and sides and a nato or mahogany neck.

I found video's and instruction manual on how it. www.usguitarkits.com/guitar-building-how-to-instructional-videos Most of the body is pre-assembled, the hardest part. If the neck block isn't in the right place the neck angle will be way off and the guitar is junk. The neck angle is off on this one but there's a shim in the bolt on neck joint. That will come out and see where it is.

I took a bunch of pictures and did my preliminary accessment. Didn't have time to pick any out to post yet.

This guitar is built but has a few problems that will have to be fixed before I can work on scraping & sanding the neck and bindings. There's going to be a lot more time required than I originally thought. Like that's never happened before!

We'll see.  Spruce over maple isn't my favorite combination.  It'll definitely be a learning experience, exactly what I was looking for.

With what he told me, what I've read in the instruction manual, and what I see in the guitar, I don't think this was much of a good experience for him.  It must have been overwhelming, too much to do in too little time.  Even though it was "built" there's no way this could ever be played without doing a neck reset to get the proper neck angle.  That'll be the first step.  Then I'll check the intonation and determine if the bridge is in the right place.  The instructions say they use a template to locate it but it looks crooked, but taking rough measurements it looks to be close.  

He must have slipped reaming the high E bridge pin hole, there's blue tape on the pin and in the hole.  I can fill the hole and redrill & taper ream it, or possibly replace the bridge.  They put huge countersinks in the holes, some of the pins sit low and go into them, making removal tough.  We'll see what happens after the neck reset.  All I need is time!!

After taking the neck off (3 bolts) I can see what the plywood looks like.  The outer veneer is very thin.  That's going to make stray glue removal tough without sanding thru it.

I need to start a new thread for this.