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I just noticed this while checking their site for pickups..

http://store.guitarfetish.com/gukibuityo.html

Strat and Tele kits are 89$.

Shaguar wrote:I just noticed this while checking their site for pickups..

http://store.guitarfetish.com/gukibuityo.html

Strat and Tele kits are 89$.

That's really cool actually. The LP's and SG's aren't priced too poorly either.

The SG looks like it would be fun but not a huge fan of Basswood, its just too light, especially on a guitar as amall as an SG

I wonder if these are just rebadged Saga kits?

I built a Saga tele kit about 5 years ago. Came out OK. I think every single screw hole had been drilled in the wrong place at the factory and had to be redrilled.

astro wrote:I wonder if these are just rebadged Saga kits?

I built a Saga tele kit about 5 years ago. Came out OK. I think every single screw hole had been drilled in the wrong place at the factory and had to be redrilled.

GFS takes their QA extremely seriously. If those kits are questionable I doubt they would carry them, let alone put their name on them.

These dont seem to have any screw holes predrilled.

Wow. The necks alone are worth the ticket in.

I Do quite like GFS, i've got a pair of their Neovin pickups for my Telecaster, except the neck one had a frayed wire that is supposed to ground the chrome cover, returned it and they have a new one on my way as i type [?]

Haze wrote:I Do quite like GFS, i've got a pair of their Neovin pickups for my Telecaster, except the neck one had a frayed wire that is supposed to ground the chrome cover, returned it and they have a new one on my way as i type [?]

They are a great company. Quality products, committed customer service, fair prices, and the hand out 10% off discounts like they were halloween candy.

They actually care about guitarists... not enough companies like them around.

I'm interested in that Tele kit. I might order next week, could be fun.

I'd much prefer a maple fretboard on it, though.

those lp kits look cool.

I'm looking at that SG kit. Very tempting at that price and quality.

endsjustifymeans wrote:

astro wrote:I wonder if these are just rebadged Saga kits?

I built a Saga tele kit about 5 years ago. Came out OK. I think every single screw hole had been drilled in the wrong place at the factory and had to be redrilled.

GFS takes their QA extremely seriously. If those kits are questionable I doubt they would carry them, let alone put their name on them.

Do you mean QC? and why do you say that? I'm a fan of GFS as well, but I wouldn't go as far as to say all that. I think you definitely take a risk with the quality. Their products are far from perfect.

endsjustifymeans wrote:

Haze wrote:I Do quite like GFS, i've got a pair of their Neovin pickups for my Telecaster, except the neck one had a frayed wire that is supposed to ground the chrome cover, returned it and they have a new one on my way as i type [?]

They are a great company. Quality products, committed customer service, fair prices, and the hand out 10% off discounts like they were halloween candy.

They actually care about guitarists... not enough companies like them around.

um, I dunno but a lot of their salesman hype really rubs me the wrong way. a lot of it seems to me to be bordering on lying. if you know your shit you won't get ripped off but I think a lot of people get swindled by it.

Their pickups are ordered directly from the Artec line. The sales-pitch is created completely after the fact. The stories about how they found some vintage strat and reverse engineered the pickups are completely phony.

I think they're a great outlet for inexpensive and relatively good quality guitar parts. one of the best values you'll find. you just have to make sure you're making an informed purchase.

I agree with the questionable sales pitch. After getting to play my xaviere (GFS Copy cat guitars) through some tube amps, I can say that the GFS vintage alnico staggers pickups that the xaviere features are shit. The neck and middle pickups are too muddy and the bridge pickup is way too tinny. I was expecting pickups to rival american strat pickups, buying into GFS sales pitch, but I got pickups that barely beat out some Squiers. Since I only paid 174 dollars for the guitar, a pickup replacement wasn't a big deal, however.

yeepers wrote:I agree with the questionable sales pitch. After getting to play my xaviere (GFS Copy cat guitars) through some tube amps, I can say that the GFS vintage alnico staggers pickups that the xaviere features are shit. The neck and middle pickups are too muddy and the bridge pickup is way too tinny. I was expecting pickups to rival american strat pickups, buying into GFS sales pitch, but I got pickups that barely beat out some Squiers. Since I only paid 174 dollars for the guitar, a pickup replacement wasn't a big deal, however.

i don't know about those pups but i love the fatbody overwound tele bridge and neck pups that i bought from them. I was thinking that the ones they use in the xavier guitars would be their super low end ones that they sell in sets for less than $20, so don't judge GFS pickups by those.

mage wrote:

endsjustifymeans wrote:GFS takes their QA extremely seriously.

Do you mean QC?

Although not as common, QA is a similar acronym. Quality Assurance, innit.

James wrote:

mage wrote:

endsjustifymeans wrote:GFS takes their QA extremely seriously.

Do you mean QC?

Although not as common, QA is a similar acronym. Quality Assurance, innit.

otn

endsjustifymeans wrote:otn

Do you mean... actually, I haven't a clue.

James wrote:

endsjustifymeans wrote:otn

Do you mean... actually, I haven't a clue.

lol, on the nose. I'd have been stunned if you had any idea what I was talking about.

Gould possibly pick this up if my sister wants to build one with my dad over the summer, that should be interesting