Anyone hazard a guess?

http://www.guitarfetish.com/Factory-Buyout-Clearance-Sale_c_411.html

Probably a chinese or korean OEM?

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I dunno but it looks like a great way to get started into building your own.

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rob

Could possibly be.
Great started kits to be had for somebody.

Though take care. At a quick glance some of that stuff is seriously crappy. This for example:

http://www.guitarfetish.com/Clear-Gloss ... _5038.html

That is some truly poor routing! I'd take that if you paid me $39, but not unless. It's firewood.

And I'm amused that they say: "We have photographed and described them fairly." Uh-hu? Like describing that double-cut body without binding as "single cutaway with binding"? Yikes - buyer beware! Really!

By the way, if anyone has the name Cort floating into their mind - I bet it's not that factory.

Cheers - C

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Some of those look like Ibanez necks and bodies.

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1984 Squier Contemporary Stratocaster
1986 Peavey Envoy 110
1967 Kingston Acoustic

Out of 5 that I looked at zoomed in, the routing mistakes are glaringly obvious, not to mention that there really isn't a standardized system for routing out cavities to match parts.
At the very least one would have to search high and low to find the correct parts with dimensions that will fit....

It is definitely Caveat Emptor.

Just the fact that they are offering this truckload of firewood pretty much solves the question of ever ordering anything from them...
That being said if you were able to physically go thru the pile and look, measure and pick, now that would be a different story .

Lets put it this way, we rout bodies, drill bodies and fit necks and bodies only after the various parts are on hand so that everything fits as it should....

BTW....If anyone is interested I just acquired 5 Dolphin Grey B7 Audi RS4 Avant's, they do have some minor need for attention but all are for sale for around $5,999.00

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True, and that being said, I have bought lots of "other" things from them in the past and been well pleased. They are not a "rip-off" company, and to be sure they do warn you in the advertisment that there are serious difficulties with some of these parts. In my experience they are quite good about being up front about product errors and difficulties.

I built this strat clone from one of their mahogany bodies, pickups sets, bridge and trem bar. The neck is Mighty mite and tuners Fender locking.

But yes, I agree, be careful about these particular factory buy out items.

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What's the big deal? This statement from the website is pretty clear:

"NOTHING here is brand new and shiny- we DO sell brand new and shiny warranted parts on our site for a little bit more money. These are all at the very least scuffed up with minor scratches, at the worst they either need luthier skills to finish or need to be stripped and refinished. PRICED ACCORDINGLY."

Yeah, each of the necks and bodies have issues. If you buy them with this knowledge and then complain, it is your fault. It's like moving into a house next door to an airport that has been around for 50 years and complaining about the noise.

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Hummm.

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Yeah, but the house was there before the airport was, even if I moved into it after the airport was built...

I like GFS and have ordered from them many times, but I'll stick to their shiny NEW stuff!

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Rockin' since 1963

Hi Bill: no big deal. But there were a couple of posts suggesting these bargain basement parts might be a good way for someone to getting started on self-building. I think it would be a really bad way - because the last thing a beginner needs to be struggling with is substandard parts that maybe don't even fit together. That can be misery and put people off this stuff forever.

Much better for the first-time builder to use the likes of GFS's regular range of good quality bodies, necks and parts and leave the trainee machinist's failure items for the furnace where they belong.

That's all I'm getting at.

Cheers - C

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I agree, thats what I did, along with some pawn shop squiers and a few Bullet Squiers that I picked up off the store shelves.

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Your guitar looks great. Do those humbuckers work well with the mahogany body?

You made some nice choices altogether on that one: kudos!

Cheers - C

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Excellent contrast on the pickguard and the knobs....

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Thanks.

I have another one just like it in the works. It is also a Mahogany, only it is more red in hue than the one pictured. So I am going with a Fender tortise pickguard with either chrome Humbuckers, or tortise and aged white or cream SSS config.

The humbuckers work very well with the Mahogany. I imagined something like Les Paul sound but its not quite that, but something else. I have had several offers to buy it but its one of "my" children and I cannot part with it.

I have been well pleased with GFS stuff and they are a great source for first timers like me. I have never used their necks though. I like the traditional strat shape headstock so I stick with that. Mighty mite has been good to me in that area. I have 3 of their necks and they are all solid and straight.

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