335A 01

Here's a step I rarely bother with, using naphtha to both preview the grain and check for glue spots.  This body is remarkably clean, with only a couple little glue spots on the side wood around the bass-side horn where it's trickiest to work.  The grain here is pretty, but I suspect won't be very 'lively,' as in only minimally chatoyant, given how low-visibility it is on the dry wood.  This particular 'kit' is just a body/neck combo ordered from China, and as clean as it is there are already a few problems I'll need to fix.  Neither the bridge nor tailpiece holes are drilled big enough, and the latter aren't deep enough either.  The output jack hole is missing entirely.  I think those F-holes are just a bit off the standard profile, and as they are I can't fit full-sized pots through them so I had to order another wiring harness with smaller pots.  To top it all off, I don't even have the neck yet, which was apparently shipped separately.  Tracking estimates it will get here next Monday (today is Thursday), having been rerouted through the midwest for some reason.