The neck was pretty nice for the price and I stained and clear coated the body. I did a full fret leveling job and it plays really nice. With the tools and skills I learned I ended up doing a couple fret jobs on some other guitars with some fret buzz. Stewmac has some good books for doing this. I'm a believer in tools as an investment because you have them for life and can do many projects with them.
If I were to do it again I would probably get a body with a finished paint job.
I didn't get one of the kits they offer because they didn't have the configuration I wanted with the P90 pickups, so I bought all my parts separate. I'm really happy with it, well, except that I wish I would have contoured the guitar body kind of like a strat where it fits your arm and stomach nicer. I like this kind of stuff so it was fun for me.
Let me know if you have any questions.