Guitar Fetish Quality
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Chocklit_Thunda
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Re: Guitar Fetish Quality
I liked what I got. The pickups are good (depending on which you get)
I got the premium Tele set and a set of retrotrons.
Hardware was good too. Thick stuff and the playing was decent. The pickguards are nice too.... Sometimes holes don't line up on existing gear but as these were for new builds that didn't matter. The material itself is fine same as Mighty Mite and probably the bigger guys. It's a pickguard.... It's a piece of plastic that's meant to get scratched... Why pay more than $20 ever in the history of ever?
I also bought a neck and that thing rocked. Fret ends were smooth, profile was an awesome thick baseball bat style, straight, nice figuring on the rosewood board.
Overall I'm happy with them. All they need to do now is offer a jazzmaster bridge and I'll never have to shop anywhere else.
I liked what I got. The pickups are good (depending on which you get)
I got the premium Tele set and a set of retrotrons.
Hardware was good too. Thick stuff and the playing was decent. The pickguards are nice too.... Sometimes holes don't line up on existing gear but as these were for new builds that didn't matter. The material itself is fine same as Mighty Mite and probably the bigger guys. It's a pickguard.... It's a piece of plastic that's meant to get scratched... Why pay more than $20 ever in the history of ever?
I also bought a neck and that thing rocked. Fret ends were smooth, profile was an awesome thick baseball bat style, straight, nice figuring on the rosewood board.
Overall I'm happy with them. All they need to do now is offer a jazzmaster bridge and I'll never have to shop anywhere else.
Securb
One of Jerry's Kids
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I got a Strat bridge from them that was made from discarded tin cans. Worse piece of garbage I have ever seen. I also bought a clearance neck and body from them and the quality was so bad that I sent is back and had to battle for a refund. With the store credit they gave me for the body and neck I got a flight case from them that is really nice quality and solid for the price.
I got a Strat bridge from them that was made from discarded tin cans. Worse piece of garbage I have ever seen. I also bought a clearance neck and body from them and the quality was so bad that I sent is back and had to battle for a refund. With the store credit they gave me for the body and neck I got a flight case from them that is really nice quality and solid for the price.
jon the art guy
Nerdy Nerd
Re: Guitar Fetish Quality
Anyone have info on their rails? More hit or more miss?
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Anyone have info on their rails? More hit or more miss?
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kramersteen
PowerMetalRaph
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I wouldn't bother buying a body or neck from them as i live in aus, But i did by a import tremolo with a brass block and i am very happy with it.
I wouldn't bother buying a body or neck from them as i live in aus, But i did by a import tremolo with a brass block and i am very happy with it.
Chocklit_Thunda
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Re: Guitar Fetish Quality
Guys on the Tele forum seem to like the rails (Tele rails obviously)
I haven't tried them but the consensus seems to be that they're alright
Guys on the Tele forum seem to like the rails (Tele rails obviously)
I haven't tried them but the consensus seems to be that they're alright
Chocklit_Thunda
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Re: Guitar Fetish Quality
Buy from their actually GuitarFetish stock. Skip the clearance section neck as entirely....
Buy from their actually GuitarFetish stock. Skip the clearance section neck as entirely....
tubecrunch
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I put the hot rails in most of my students SSS squires. Does the job.
I put the hot rails in most of my students SSS squires. Does the job.
Myaccount876
Amira-Maker
Re: Guitar Fetish Quality
I really like the "pro-series" '52 Telecaster bridge pickup - it does exactly what I want. I'm also satisfied with their 3-brass saddle ashtray bridge. I thought the Crunchy PAT humbuckers were okay, and the AlNiCo II Vintage-style humbucker was definitely not bad. Their pickups IMO would make great for stock pickups in guitars.
I really like the "pro-series" '52 Telecaster bridge pickup - it does exactly what I want. I'm also satisfied with their 3-brass saddle ashtray bridge. I thought the Crunchy PAT humbuckers were okay, and the AlNiCo II Vintage-style humbucker was definitely not bad. Their pickups IMO would make great for stock pickups in guitars.
Securb
One of Jerry's Kids
Re: Guitar Fetish Quality
That comment made me snort. The reason most of are here is we end up pulling the stock pickups our guitars. I guess wouldn't feel as bad pulling them if they were GF.
That comment made me snort. The reason most of are here is we end up pulling the stock pickups our guitars. I guess wouldn't feel as bad pulling them if they were GF.
kramersteen
PowerMetalRaph
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Yeah they could have saved every nice guitar that's been equipped with emg hz pickups from the factory.
Yeah they could have saved every nice guitar that's been equipped with emg hz pickups from the factory.
Van Noord
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I read that the pickups are made in the same factory as Epiphone pickups. Take from that what you will.
I'm tossing around the idea of buying a zebra VEH and zebra crunchy PAT. Then I'll decide what's better in the bridge position and proceed from there.
I read that the pickups are made in the same factory as Epiphone pickups. Take from that what you will.
I'm tossing around the idea of buying a zebra VEH and zebra crunchy PAT. Then I'll decide what's better in the bridge position and proceed from there.
youngthrasher9
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The Mean 90 sounds good. The bare wire in the leads was complete crap however, but still workable. I might have just got a bad one. I would buy pickups from them again if I needed to upgrade someone's beater guitar on the cheap.
The Mean 90 sounds good. The bare wire in the leads was complete crap however, but still workable. I might have just got a bad one. I would buy pickups from them again if I needed to upgrade someone's beater guitar on the cheap.
ItsaBass
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IME, Guitar Fetish can be summed up as: a pretty darned cool selection of crap Chinese (or wherever they're made) parts. That is, some of the designs are cool, but the quality of the parts themselves is no better than the stuff you will be replacing on most low-to-mid-line Asian-made guitars. If you want cheap crap for a cheap crap project, go for their stuff. If you want truly quality stuff for a project that deserves truly high quality stuff, go elsewhere.
IME, Guitar Fetish can be summed up as: a pretty darned cool selection of crap Chinese (or wherever they're made) parts. That is, some of the designs are cool, but the quality of the parts themselves is no better than the stuff you will be replacing on most low-to-mid-line Asian-made guitars. If you want cheap crap for a cheap crap project, go for their stuff. If you want truly quality stuff for a project that deserves truly high quality stuff, go elsewhere.
jon the art guy
Nerdy Nerd
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I like the designs on their pups. The visual designs, I mean. The world needs more pearloid topped soapbar double p90s.
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I like the designs on their pups. The visual designs, I mean. The world needs more pearloid topped soapbar double p90s.
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