Tempted by cheap guitars, what are your thoughts?

[Uncle E]

The best mod is a new neck. Not much more expensive than getting the frets leveled. Then you have to make sure the bodies have standard Fender neck pockets. Many do not, not even some Squire's and early Fender MIM's.

[The Noodlist]

One to avoid! Fazley - They have an extensive range of returned B-stock guitars

I've sent one back (it looked like a beaver had cut the neck pocket and a setup wasn't going to fix it) and another that had extremely poor electronics and hardware, which I was going to upgraded, anyway.

It's an HSS, had 2 weak 4.7K single coils, middle pickup not reverse wound, no hum cancelling in the position it should be and the smallest tremolo block I've ever seen. Cutting cost on hardware. It seems to be their take on a Jet Guitars - JS-400, with corners cut.

[Uncle E]

The Jet headstock looks nicer. Plus a roasted maple neck is worth paying extra for.

[The Noodlist]

I have a cheap grote T-Style in my Amazon cart. Stainless steel frets, maple fingerboard/neck, satin finish, tummy cut, and shit pickups. But, I don't care because my parts-box has a few tele pickups, and moreover, I want to try humbuckers in a T-style, especially if I can get some kind of five way going with it.

It looks nice, it has some nice features, especially the spoke wheel truss adjustment. You might have issues getting a scratchplate for the new pickups, unless they're stacked.

I'm currently putting 2 humbuckers in £65 (from new) Donner DCT-1OO. Using a wide range type in the neck (£20 Ebay) and a alnico 5 hot rail (£11), A new scratchplate to accommodate the neck pickup, locking tuners (£12), 2502N 5-way switch, Alpha pots with a no-load tone, Tusk nut and 6 steel saddle out of the spare part box.

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[Uncle E]

alnico 5 hot rail (£11)

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Check out this thread, apparently wiring those import hot rails in parallel is the way to go:

https://www.strat-talk.com/threads/dima ... ew.501107/

[The Noodlist]

alnico 5 hot rail (£11)

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Check out this thread, apparently wiring those import hot rails in parallel is the way to go:

https://www.strat-talk.com/threads/dima ... ew.501107/

Thanks, the 2502n switch allows for parallel switching, neck in the pic.

[Uncle E]

The bridge is the one you'd want to do in parallel. Fortunately, all you have to do is flip the switch around. And that switch gives you both pickups split, which will be a cool sound. That's a great switch.

[RunBeerRun]

I want to get another Ministar Basstar bass guitar, it was good for audio to midi.