GEARit Electric Guitar (Premium Ash Tonewood),Thinline Semi-Hollow Body, GTL-200 Shoreline Series, 39in Full-Size, P90 Pickup, Humbucker with Coil Split, Round Frets, Accessories - Surf Green

Wow this is a very well-made guitar. Roasted maple neck/fretboard are extremely smooth and comfortable. The hand-polished, rounded frets are smooth as butter and make sliding up/down the neck a breeze. Everything stock on the guitar works well. I purchased the guitar to mod out/upgrade. I didn’t need to at all, but I did since I already had the upgraded parts. I also re-wired with vintage push-back cloth wire and upgraded the jack to a Pure Tone jack. Once again I must reiterate I did not need to do a thing to this guitar. The set-up/string height was perfect right out of the box. The ash body definitely adds weight to the guitar, and also gives the guitar a great tone. I really like the neck stock p90- had an Alnico 5 neck p90 ready to go but kept the stock pup since it sounds so good. The stock PAF bridge humbucker also sounds really good. I swapped for a black Alnico 5 1/2 hotrail/1/2 hex humbucker. I kept the stock PAF to put in another guitar down the road. Vintage machine heads work well. I swapped for black ones but the black ferrils were too wide so I kept the chrome ferrils which makes it look really cool and unique with both black and chrome machine head components. I did not feel like using a dremmel to widen the machine head holes to make the black ferrils fit. I also swapped the chrome vintage saddles for black steel ones. The stock saddles worked just fine. I definitely think this would be an excellent guitar for someone just starting out on their guitar journey. The only thing I’d recommend doing would be swapping out the stock strings. That’s a very simple uograde. The stock strings work I just down-tune so use much heavier gauged strings 56-12’s. Synthetic bone nut does the trick too. Had a Tusq XL nut ready to go as well but I’m keeping the stock nut. I only wish it was a string thru body, but it still has great sustain and definitely stays in tune.I have many, many guitars which I’ve all upgraded from head to toe. I have many brands in the inexpensive to middle priced category along with a few Gibsons and a high-end Martin acoustic. Eart, IYV, Grote, Firefly, Harley Benton, etc. This guitar is right up there in quality with my 2 Earts which both run around $400- double what this guitar costs. I’m very impressed with the build quality, sound, playability, and look. I’ve always wanted a “sea foam” green Thinline Tele. Now I have an excellent one. I will definitely pick up the LP with p90’s and the SSH Strat down the road. I’m really impressed with Gear It.Update- I’ve also purchased the black and the sunburst models- couldn’t pass up on the extremely low price. I wrote my review after quickly swapping the pick-ups. I did not realize that the pickups are “out of phase” and sound brittle and just terrible with both pickups activated with the middle switch setting. There’s quite an easy fix- just swap the hit and ground wires. The bridge hit wire will be on a lug on the switch- desolder and solder hit wire to the ground lug on the switch or on top of the volume pot- then desolder the bare ground/wrapped ground wires and solder to where the bridge hunbuckers wire is on the switch. This will correct the issue and both pickups will sound good together. I’m still giving the guitar a 5 rating due to the high-end features offered along with the amazingly low price.I’ve also found each model also has multiple high frets. High frets cause either bad buzzing, dead notes, a sitar sound, or even the same sound as the fret right before the note played- that just can’t be good. Anyways I’ve recently taught myself how to lower problem frets. This is an advanced, tedious skill/job. Therefor I would not recommend these thinline models for someone just starting out until GearIt gets better with their quality control. This guitar is perfect for someone who knows how to work on a guitar. I believe these issue are the reasons why the prices for these guitar have dropped so job.So this is an amazing guitar with some work. Hopefully GearIt will step up their QC because they’re onto something great with these guitars along with their SSH Strat copies and the white LP with p90’s. Stainless steel/rounded end frets and the roasted maple neck/fretboard are not usually found on inexpensive guitars. I have over 50 import guitars which I’ve all upgraded. I’ve tried just about every import guitar out there along with just about every budget aftermarket part and pickup. GearIt, Westcreek, and Bullfighter are the three manufacturers I’ve seen that are putting higher features on their guitars. I love Eart too but their guitars are higher priced. I’m in no way connected to any of these companies . I’m just someone who loves modding out guitars and just wanted to pass on any helpful information. It’s a win/win situation for anyone out there looking to mod/upgrade these inexpensive guitars or someone starting out who has a friend who’s knowledgeable on fixing/modding guitars.

Grabbed this on a whim for less than $100 with the assumption that it would need a ton of work. The guitar is gorgeous, on the heavier side with a near perfect finish. The fretwork on mine was immaculate and the rounded frets are a wonderful high end touch! The pickups are a bit spicy but balanced and warm. No need to swap the pickups at all.Out of the box it played well, but after a few minutes the frets started to buzz. Have it a quick setup, but a few minutes later it was buzzing Again. There’s something about the saddles/height screws that don’t get along as the screws loosen, causing the saddles to lower. It was an easy fix throwing on a $10 set of inexpensive saddles.A lot of other reviews mentioned issues with the tuners, but the real culprit is the nut… it’s a common issue on cheap guitars with cheap plastic nuts. The solution is to twist the tip of a standard graphite #2 pencil in the slots… fixes the tuning and stability issues instantly.Honestly, for 20 minutes of work and $10 spent on saddles this guitar plays great! Is it a $1500 fender? No… that’s a silly question. Is it on par with a $300 Squier? Absolutely.

I picked this up for $81 when they were on sale at rock bottom and wasn't sure what to expect. Lots of video reviews out there that are all over the place. It just arrived and first thing out of the box is the top is so pretty I can almost live with the goofy headstock shape, which actually isn't as ugly in person as it appears in photos!I still might re-shape the headstock... I am just so stunned at how GORGEOUS this thing is otherwise, that Imma little giddy at the overall appearance probably. One of the prettiest sunburst tops with amazing figuring I have ever seen, regardless of price. Hands down. Neck is beautiful as well. There's something about a maple neck with ball end frets that just looks clean and precise...Cosmetics aside, let's get to the nitty gritty. For a beginner it is perfectly acceptable out of the box. Nothing "wrong" in terms of it plays fine, everything works as it should, and once the strings are stretched it holds tune just fine. You could give this to a kid as a first guitar and they would be receiving a perfectly functioning musical instrument.Having said that, for those who are somewhere beyond being a beginner, it needs a proper setup. No surprise for a guitar in this price range. The action is slightly high at the higher frets and the intonation is sort of close, but only sort of if you have a decent ear. Still, big deal. I didn't expect that a master tech would prepare it for me at this price. Even at the full price it's supposed to list for I would expect a setup to be necessary.Have not checked relief, but it's a bolt on neck. Set the relief if need be, adjust the bridge saddle heights, and if need be shim the neck to put the action where it should be. I expect it probably simply needs the relief checked and the bridge saddle heights set, and shimming will probably not be necessary from my cursory initial look at things. A straight edge on the neck suggests the neck itself is just fine as is, but the bridge saddles are definitely high. Big deal!Again, we are talking about a budget guitar, not picking apart something from a custom shop. What else?Some people have reported problems with consistent volume from pickup to pickup when using the coil split. It does seem to have SLIGHTLY lower volume in the middle position when the coil split is engaged, but I mean... not anything crazy terrible, and not anything I probably would have noticed if not for all the people who reported it as an "issue"... it's fine...The pickup heights and pole pieces need to be adjusted. Again, as one would expect on a new guitar, and esp in this price range. But even as is, and with the protective plastic still on the pickups, the range of tonalities on tap is pretty cool. No complaints, some pleasant surprises, and who knows? With heights and pole pieces adjusted maybe that "volume discrepency" in the middle position with coil taps engaged will go away completely?Again though, who cares? If you're going to pick apart this thing based upon tiny things in comparison to more expensive guitars you're missing the point.Overall, first impression out of the box is it's pretty, -No, the F-hole is not bound but for this price the fact that the body IS bound, -and the body binding is flawless by the way, -is impressive in itself! Second impression out of the box is it plays fine but experienced players will want to change strings and do a proper setup, and then I have every expectation it will be a great player. Third impression is that for the price, the accessory bag is pretty dope.What do you want for a budget guitar? Add in strict QC on the setup and binding on the F-Hole and the price is going to go up!...I just wish the Chinese could wrap their heads around the idea of doing headstocks that aren't so funky and fugly...She's a keeper anyway! I can love this beauty! despite the fact she has six toes! Five stars is factoring in the price point. No it's not a five star guitar compared to something that goes for three grand, but I've seen guitars going for five hundred or even more that will never be as good as I know this thing will be after a good setup.It's fine.