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I bought an Sl57 Slick ST style guitar with Labor Day discounts for all of 200$. I really hoped that the body would be good since the ash body was what I was really paying for. To my shock, I was able to set the neck at 1.3mm action, no issues with nut or frets. No fret end issues either. Now, I knew the neck is not my style: 22 frets, tucked in as a strat, strat thick at the 1st fret, far cry from the Super Wizard necks I am used to. BUT if I can play this neck fast, it means it is a really good neck. Feels great being unfinished. It is routed for SSS so I enlarged one bay for a single active humbucker use. I ditched the stock PUs after 15 min but they were good. As in actually good, not just good for the price. But my clean tones repertoire is like 15 min LOL. Hardware is susprisingly good, too, with a monster bridge bronze block. Not designed for palm muting, but saddles are easy to replace. It nailed it for my planned niche uses. If the neck/body geometry were my style, it could easily be more than niche use. Easily a better guitar than anything I have tried in the 400-700 range.

First time and last time to buy a guitar body from GF. I think a second grader could have done a better job cutting and drilling holes in this thing.

I built a ST style HSS guitar using the XGP guitar. I used Fender original Shaw Bucker populated pickguard. The routing depths were not deep enough, and some of the widths of the routing was not wide enough, specifically the tone knob area. The problem is the price is right for the bodies. I routed the areas that needed adjustment and made it work. I will most likely get another body, just be aware that you may need to make some adjustments to the routed area, depending.

Like many folks my age we don't trust the interweb a whole lot and for good reason. People tend to use misleading bait and switch wording to get you to buy their products. I purchased one of the factory 2nd $100 off guitars from them. Its very pretty I'll say that. The ad says they use kwikplug pickups in these so I bought a different kwikplug pickup from them to experiment with. Turns out you have to convert the guitar to the kwikplug set up yourself so that was a bait and switch another thing that is a bit tricky is the presidents day sale they have going on 13.5% and 35% on various items. One if you use just the 13.5% on an item you get 13.5% off... perfect! If you use the 35% on an item you get 21% off that item... lie.. you're supposed to be able to stack them. When you stack them you get 35% off. 35+13.5 = 48.5. I spent 6 years in high-school im no dummy. Do your research, ask them as many questions as you can before you buy.

I have bought 4 bodies, directly from them and some pickups of Reverb. One bodies had the neck holes drilled slightly off, would not have been an issue if I was drilling the neck but I had a pre drilled Fender neck. They needed a couple pics and then sent a return label. Other than the strat bodies being a little blocky, they are perfect, and sound great.

Slow as molasses shipping and communication.

Out of curiosity, I checked out the other Trustpilot reviews on GuitarFetish (GF) before writing my own. I was sort of surprised as I scanned through all the negative comments - especially given the relatively attractive pricing of GF's products. In my case, I bought a finished Telecaster body - and not because I was necessarily concerned about the price (I typically buy my finished guitar bodies and necks from Warmoth) but, in this case, I was looking for a body with a Mary Kaye finish; turns out, those are relatively hard to come by, but GF offers them for sale - and for an extremely attractive price - about twice what it would cost me just to buy an alder wood body blank. The purchase and shipping processes went just fine. The guitar body arrived expertly packed, without any damage, and the finish was exactly what I'd hoped for. When I assembled the guitar, I found that the pre-drilled bridge mount was accurately configured, and the neck fit in the pocket just perfectly. The assembled guitar looks and plays great! In short, I've nothing but good things to say about my experience. Satisfied customer!

I've purchased mostly pickups from GF, Most were decent but had a couple lemons here & there. Recently, however I purchased the Humbucker adapter ring that supposed to fit a Tele bridge pickup into a humbucker cavity, and their version of a Tele bridge pickup to put in my PRS.. Now, first their Tele bridge pickup the wire wrapped around was wonky and uneven and I had to manipulate the Tele pickup very carefully through the adapter ring but it still looked sloppy wonky, then when I tried to fit the assembled pickup & adapter ring in the cavity, it would not fit. To make it fit I would have had to modify my bridge pickup cavity and I'm not about to cut into my vintage USA made PRS. They don't mention anywhere on their site saying ".. some modification may be required." All that being said, I was able to return all items for a full refund(minus shipping) with no issues... So bottom line, most of the products are ok, just hit or miss sometimes but the return policy is good in my experience