oof... bought a guitarfetish body....

What do you get for 79.00 plus shipping? Weeeeeellllllllllll, you get a pretty nice poly clear finish on a body that is okay (a little greenish) ....I was getting kind of excited... til I tried 2 or 3 necks in the body and there was probably a 1/8" slop... I didn't even measure it... yet. I guess maybe one of their 45.00 necks will fit in it...

it was an impulse buy.. any advice?

Cut your losses.

return policy?

yeah, I'll email tomorrow....

you get what you pay for!

yeah, I'll email tomorrow....

you get what you pay for!

One of out TDPRI members got an SX body with a loose neck pocket. My Schecter VS Start neck does not fit in a WD or US or MIM Tele body, but it fits that SX perfectly... ;)

So I wonder if the bog pocket is a trend on these.

.125" is a lot!

The SX Alder body made a fine Tele with an EMG-T set and vintage top loader...

I was hoping our measurements before he shipped it to me where correct, and voila! ;0

I emailed them. I'll exchange the body for some parts and it will be cool. I just feel silly, I saw the picture and clicked order without really thinking it through.. it will work out okay...

My question is this:

Why the hell is it so hard to get the neck pocket right? It's the single most important measurement to get straight. It's all done by CNC, right. WTF!

I don't understand why this seems so hard.

WTF indeed. I'm just a redneck with a dying Sears router and a homemade plywood template, yet I can lift the body by the neck with no screws. It's NOT THAT HARD!!! --Rob

WTF indeed. I'm just a redneck with a dying Sears router and a homemade plywood template, yet I can lift the body by the neck with no screws. It's NOT THAT HARD!!! --Rob

Its probably quality control...Can you cut a million of them everyday perfect?

I emailed them. I'll exchange the body for some parts and it will be cool. I just feel silly, I saw the picture and clicked order without really thinking it through.. it will work out okay...

Nice sig Getbent. You're swinging. Like Dizzy Gillespie.

Its probably quality control...Can you cut a million of them everyday perfect?

I don't think anybody is making a million of them a day. That would be roughly 300 million new guitar bodies a year, just from that one company. Are there any guitar companies even making a million guitars in a year?

Tolerances are necessary, but a quarter of an inch? Wow!

Tolerances are necessary, but a quarter of an inch? Wow!

How did we get to 1/4" :confused:


I am guessing the necks they make/sell fit. If their necks do not fit the real thing, and their bodies do not accept a real fender neck....

Harder to get them on infringement ?:confused:?

I could be wrong, but it looks like the Guitar Fetish site has added new language advising on body and neck size. Seems like the specified width is different than previously stated, but I couldn't be sure.

(It's a shame that this is an issue -- I really like the white-blonde they show, but I don't like the look of their necks and I prefer a really big profile.)

Bear

furr furr furr... thanks man!

Hey, I emailed and they responded really fast. I need some parts so I'm gonna do an exchange... they were very prompt and very kind... so, so far, so good.

I have ordered from Guitar Fetish a few times. Alway quick replies and prompt handling.

I went to put in an end pip Jack/stap-pin last week I ordered like 2 months ago. Well it was only a jack, and not an end pin/jack like I ordered.

One email and the next day the right one was in the mail box.

I'd think anyone would be happy doing biz with Guitar Fetish. IMO


EDIT: It is nice for stuff to be perfect and go perfect on the first shot when ordering stuff, in a perfect world perhaps.

I went through ordering some PUP covers for my 70s Gibby HB and provided EXACT spec and yet the cover pole spacing was not right.

This was an eBay transaction, and I am good about positive feedback etc. I decided to just not leave feedback as opposed to a negative or even neutral. The vendor got right back and offered to refund including shipping. I still got no covers for my effort, but feces occurs I guess. I told him forget it, I will use them somewhere sometime.
But at least the service was quick and there, a lot of times it is not.

I wanted to be pee-ed, but like here, even though GF website said specifically the info and it was wrong, it happens.

But you really can't complain when eMails regarding issues are returned right away and a resolution is offered/presented forth-with etc.

It is when you have to threaten canceling a card, or bad ebay feedback
to get action that rubs me the wrong way...

So a little hassle to fix stuff is par for the course, as long as the vendor is forth coming you just gotta o the footwork. If pissin and moaning about it makes you feel better [it does me ;)] go for it. :wink:

I ordered one 2 weeks ago.
It was also about 1/8th or more too wide.
I emailed them and am now returning the body.
Not the end of the world, these things happen right?

The part that upsets me is they plainly had the dimensions on there website which also claimed to fit aftermarket necks of that dimension.
That was hogwash.
Had they not stated the dimensions (which were way wrong), I would have not ordered the body in the first place and saved us both this fiasco in the first place.:sad:

looks like they screwed up bad, and changed the description!
now says

"These have a 2 7/32" wide neck pockets to fit Guitarfetish necks exactly or most licensed Fender necks with a little wiggle room to spare. Our pocket is a touch wider than a few popular replacement necks, so remember- Fitting a neck to a replacement body will always require some hand fitting."

Guess I should have waited.

It is almost as though the shipment was sent to the vendor, and parceled directly out to the consumer without any examination of the product at all stateside.

Once feedback started coming back that the body was not as originally described and intended, but had different dimensions, instead of getting the manufacturer to make the body right, the website just changed the description.

I'd rather mops floors than do business that way.

And so if folks ask me about GFS pickups, I just say: Some individual pups are quite accidentally very good.

And so if folks ask me about GFS pickups, I just say: Some individual pups are quite accidentally very good.

First of all how does getbent's experience with a GFS body equate to a GFS pickup? They are two entirely different types of products, probably from two entirely different manufactures.

I have a Vintage Alnico 62 Repro pickup (I30) and a Alnico Fatbody with oversized polepieces neck pickup (I37) in stalled in one of my teles. I think it's a very good sounding pickup set - especially the Vintage 62 - and I a very satisfied with them.

When I was doing research on them, I search a lot of different forums, not just TDPRI. I did not find one instance of anyone that had anything negative to say about the Vintage 62's. To the contrary, all I found were praise for them.

Now I'll ask you as another forum member did in another post... Exactly what first hand knowledge of GFS pickups do you have to make such a seemingly authoritative negative statement about them?

Look, I'm not saying that they are top of the line, excellent pickups. But, I will say that, in my opinion, they are a very good pickup and an excellent value. I also think that the vast majority of people that own them will agree whole heartedly with that statement.

I think the point is, GFS is not known for their quality control.
They have just proven it with this body fiasco.

*****

I hope you are willing to reimburse Getbent for all his time and trouble.

Hey, for the record.... the body I got looks cool for 79.00 but the neck pocket is just too large... when I wrote them to send it back they were very nice and provided all the info etc... so, I'm not mad at them at all, they were fine.. I'm just sorry it didn't fit, it is an okay body!

I don't know much about their pickups etc... but the control plates etc are cool and I'm exchanging for some of that stuff....

I wish it had fit!

I bought a sunburst body from GFS. The neck pocket worked fine. Not as tight as my MIM body but if Fender got it wrong..................

In the end I couldn't live with the color, mid 60s Sunburst they were super about the return so Customer Service A+

Hey I've read posts here about Eden bodies + problems and they never even got back to me about my problems. I read posts about Eden bodies where the neck pocket wasn't deep enough. Those guys should be drummed off the internet.

GfS has always done just great with me. I get constant compliments about a Dream 90 pick up I bought from them and all the hardware I've bought worked perfectly.

Gary

It's hard to get good help nowdays, they probably got a newbie runnin the machine and put a oversize cutter in. is just the width messed or the length
also?

good luck tho!

looks like they screwed up bad, and changed the description!
now says

"These have a 2 7/32" wide neck pockets to fit Guitarfetish necks exactly or most licensed Fender necks with a little wiggle room to spare. Our pocket is a touch wider than a few popular replacement necks, so remember- Fitting a neck to a replacement body will always require some hand fitting."

Guess I should have waited.

By my calculations if a Fender neck pocket is 2 3/16" (2 6/32") there should only be a 1/32" gap or 1/64" of an inch on each side. That should work. Am I wrong? I am a noob. :wink: (2 7/32-2 6/32=1/32)

By my calculations if a Fender neck pocket is 2 3/16" (2 6/32") there should only be a 1/32" gap or 1/64" of an inch on each side. That should work. Am I wrong? I am a noob. :wink: (2 7/32-2 6/32=1/32)

GFS changed the posted description after buyers received the bodies and found the neck pockets, once said to be a nice fit, had "wiggle room". A /32nd here, a /32nd there, another one over here. The customer is king. King Test Subject. GFS necks are loose in the pocket, but the GFS necks are wider than the necks we're used to. Gotcha.

Meanwhile there's a real pretty 2 piece medium weight ash Strat body offered at the webspecials page at USA Custom Guitars for $ 109. Worlds apart in fit, desperately little difference in price, and you can control how it is finished.