One further thing I will say for the Xaviere bodies is that the paint, though almost certainly poly, is very thin - much thinner than any Fender I've played which is probably a good thing. I could also have kept more of the Xaviere components than I did, the stock bridge was fine for example. I wouldn't want anyone to think, just because I ended up replacing everything apart from the body and the jack plate, that the rest of the stock guitar was junk: I just had a very specific plan in mind from the outset.
