GFS body questions answered

[Reeltarded]

Only way to know is to do. So I bought a pawlonia scratochatter body from GFS for like $53 shipped or some nonsense.

Single piece of wood. Accidently picked for nice grain. It's nearly quartered. The contours are pretty terrible and it's finish sanded to 80 grit in 9 directions that aren't with the grain.

I mean, hey, cool for me. Couple three hours and i have a lightweight replacement body that will be a great guitar but not without lots of experience and some tools. I noticed the ferrule holes are not lined up on some of the telecasters they have showing.

The wood is fantastic. It handles like swamp ash and weighs half as much as a really good piece. Stiff and knocky. Like it.

[Bob S]

Gordon Food Service sells luthier supplies ???
I had no idea - this is what happens when you avoid shopping like the plague.
Kroger will be next.
Then Walmart with a cheap chinese version.

[stelligan]

Put together one of these for my nephew as a Christmas gift last year. Light as a feather - sounded surprisingly good. Yup - contours were blocky, depth of the body was thin enough that whammy block stuck out a hair - couldn't place a back plate on - but no biggie. Told him that's the way Eric Johnson does it - he said "who? I want it to look like Tom Delonge's." I said - who?. Worth the very few pennies I paid - made him a happy camper...

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[Deric]

Bought a painted tele body a while back... First one showed with several very large cracks in/through the paint. Never looked at it too close other than that. They were really cool and picked it up and sent out a replacement.

The routing/drilling were so bad there was no way to line up the neck with the bridge short of taking wood out of the neck pocket or plugging and redrilling the string-thru holes for the bridge. Either way there was no doing it without a lot of wood showing which kinda effed up the whole point of buying a painted body. Also, the neck screw holes were really crooked.

Sent them an e-mail and the response I got pretty much said "fuck you very much, have a nice day".

Bummer. Seemed like a cool piece o wood. One day I'll make a clock out of it or something......

[cbass]

Are you guys talking bout the blems and factory buy out stuff or there regular bodies ?

I'm thinking bout one them lpjr's for 40 bucks then I'd have to build a neck for it And it would just sit there mocking me

[cbass]

Alright I'm gonna order it .my boy's birthday is in a month I'd like to have it done by then .you guys can shame me into working on it.

[cbass]

Now I'm thinking bout just getting one of their finished LP's for 200 bucks sounds a lot easier

[Teleguy61]

I have bought a GFS guitar, and my experience is for $200 you get a $250 guitar.

[Reeltarded]

haha with the other $120 in materials.

[cbass]

Well I'm can't afford a real one.haven't been terribly impressed by some of the real ones I've seen.Japanese copies prices are out ta control

[Cliff Schecht]

My GFS Tele body had the string ferrules way off. Had to plug and redrill them, looks for shit but it worked fine. Used GFS Fatbody pickups and a different brand of Chinese neck that worked out ok but I prefer the quality of the GFS necks. The finish looks decent on the bodies and once you get them setup and strung up, they can be quite nice for an el-cheapo.

The $99 Strat kit I put together came together really well, better than the painted Tele body I ordered, and other than needing a severe nut job (the factory one was cut with the high E too close to the edge of the fretboard), it's been a solid player. The Paulownia actually looks quite nice with a natural lightly stained finish. There's some nice birdseye effects going on once you really work in a wax finish.

[Teleguy61]

GFS stuff is cheap mass produced chinese stuff with very low quality control at point of manufacture. The parts are reviewed and passed or failed at their warehouse, which is about ten miles from me. I guess they have some arrangement with the manufacturer that they can return, or get credit for, the parts that don't make the grade, and then some of them get sold off in ***BIG SALE!!!!! HUGE SAVINGS!!!*** etc etc etc.
The pickups on the one I bought were meh, PAF-type HBs. No character at all to the sound.
I think their stuff is false economy.

[brentm]

I have bought a GFS guitar, and my experience is for $200 you get a $250 guitar.

Have you guys taken a good look at the "Vintage Modified" Fender Squier series at your local shop?

I picked one up the other month... just because I thought it looked amazing for bearing the "Squier" label... nice vintage tinted neck, vintage looking parts, etc etc... and I was floored. It was a really well built guitar, for the money. It puts my second guitar, a 90s Korean Squier II with the plywood/pressboard body to shame.

I thought about getting a Squier Tele, just because I don't have one...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Squier-Vintage- ... 3cd74230e3

The headstock is wrong on the tele, because I think everyone that plays one of these has the same thought I did. Get a Fender waterslide decal for it.

I'm sure putting one of those parts guitars together is fun and rewarding. But I've never had much luck myself... tried to source parts for a Ibanez RG550 in black, but the neck and the body just didn't fit right. And I'm just not that handy!

Anyway, next time you are at your shop, you owe it to yourself to find one of these "vintage modified" guitars and take it out for a spin.

[cbass]

I bought one of their Fatboy tele pickups and I like it.I got some of their Wilkinson tuners and was surprised by how nice they were.
I don't mind if it needs some fretwork or a new nut or has minor flaws.as long as it resembles a Lp and plays decent he will like it.

There's an 8 page thread on the Lp forum going on about how great they are but who knows.

[Reeltarded]

If this strat body is any indication of what a monkey can do with a belt sander and a drill..

Monkey need evolution. Monkey fail.