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I have decided to upgrade the first guitar I ever bought to something that is playable, It is a cheap Encore Strat Copy, I like the colour of the body and I've already swapped the neck with my old Squier.
I'm hoping for this to fill my need for single coils as my SG, Axis copy and Esquire all have humbuckers.

As alot of the residents of Shortscale, upgrade and make your own guitars, I was wondering if any of you have had any experience with Wilkinson guitar parts, particularly pick ups, bridges and machine heads.

Any advice is very much appreciated

Wilkinson parts are good. They make stuff for guitarfetish

No, Guitar Fetish sells Wilkinson parts. In my experience, they're good quality, no problems at all. More than one person on here has used the bridges they supply with good results, and I've used the tuners.

Still, I wish we stocked them in this Wilkinson:

Only experience I have is with the roller saddle tune-o-matic bridge that Guitar Fetish sells. It was a very nice, high quality unit, and very affordable for the quality you get.

starbuckered wrote:I have decided to upgrade the first guitar I ever bought to something that is playable, It is a cheap Encore Strat Copy, I like the colour of the body and I've already swapped the neck with my old Squier.
I'm hoping for this to fill my need for single coils as my SG, Axis copy and Esquire all have humbuckers.

As alot of the residents of Shortscale, upgrade and make your own guitars, I was wondering if any of you have had any experience with Wilkinson guitar parts, particularly pick ups, bridges and machine heads.

Any advice is very much appreciated

some people here are saying stuff about guitarfetish,
ive ordered a pickguard from there for my strat and it didnt fit around the neck and most of the screw holes
didnt match up however i dont know if it was a wilkinson pickguard though and i understand you question has
nothing to do about pickguards.

Wilkinson parts are cheap and okay.

i've got some wilkinson tuners on my ibanez.

i think so at least, i know they're from guitarfetish.

they're perfectly fine, pretty smooth actually. i prefer them to the original ibanez ones.

edit: hang on no those were from axesrus.
i bought something from GFS that wasn't pickups, what was it? that's gonna annoy me.

Seriously, Guitar Fetish do not solely sell Wilkinson parts! If your parts are from Wilkinson, unless it said "WILKINSON ________________" before the part name, it is NOT Wilkinson. Dude with the pickguard, of course that's not made by Wilkinson, it's just a bit of plastic that's been cut out.

Stewmac sells Wilkinson parts, and we know how respectable Stewmac is.

christ sorry, i was just sayin'

i'll keep my mouth shut in future, cheers malik.

timhulio wrote:Wilkinson parts are cheap and okay.

I thought they were better than that? I understand that they make one of the better strat type trems on the market. I can't rememebr the name but I know it's not cheap.

Reece wrote:christ sorry, i was just sayin'

i'll keep my mouth shut in future, cheers malik.

Yeah, I felt bad posting that after seeing your honest mistake, it was mostly angry because of the earlier stupidities.

As Paul says, Wilkinson is actually a pretty reputable brand. A local luthier I know who makes ridiculous priced custom guitars (£3000+) swears by Wilkinson hardware, so either he's conning his clients, or they're good enough for him.

ah, s'all good then.

also i just checked and the tuners i bought from axesrus are actually wikinsons haha.

so yeah, reiterating what i said, they're decent, not just for the money, decent full stop.

i was suspicious about a £40 strat bridge being any good.

i was wrong - it's rock solid...

I think they go upwards from £40. I think they have ones for proper money, like eighty or a hundred quid. I know that they used to make one that was very, very good but they discontinured it for some reason. A luthier friend of mine goes on about them, and how they stopped making this bridge.

VS100 ?

jhs don't seem to list it, but the older VS-100 was everywhere a few years back- now gotoh seem to be making it? Don't know the history behind it, whether Wilkinson designed it for gotoh and then decided to make their own or something..

That sounds right. I hadn't realised there was some conenction with Gotoh, which would go a long way to explaining the quality.

BacchusPaul wrote:

timhulio wrote:Wilkinson parts are cheap and okay.

I thought they were better than that? I understand that they make one of the better strat type trems on the market. I can't rememebr the name but I know it's not cheap.

They have a nice compensated Tele bridge I've bought and intend to use soon. It wasn't expensive, about £25 I think. Their Strat bridges are a little more, and they probably do the job just fine. They make the hardware on those Vintage brand guitars, which are cheap and nasty, although that's more to do with the materials, pickups and finish rather than metal bits.

I bought some of these for my Esquire project:

And they feel kinda cheap, but then they're a third the price of Schallers.

Mostly I'm a little miffed that these same tuners (twenty fucking quid tuners) have turned-up on the Burns Sonic I've been covetting. This guitar has an RRP of £899. I mean... WTF?

Typical! The Wank Marvin RI comes with cool-ass Van Ghent copies. Who makes these?!?

Wilkinson have a range of products. Some of it is better than others. They do make products for other people or license designs. They also copy/improve popular designs of much more expensive gear like that Compensated Tele Bride.

timhulio wrote:Typical! The Wank Marvin RI comes with cool-ass Van Ghent copies. Who makes these?!?

those look like Sperzel locking tuners with a funny button.