Everything I tried other than their Strat pickups were crap.
That is the only thing they can do though. They figured out and perfected how to make a great sounding pickup for cheap. In my opinion it seems that GFS is a one trick pony type shop. I have heard AMAZING reviews of their Mean 90 pickups as well. In all fairness though, my buddy has a set of the GFS Alnico pickups in his Strat and they sound AMAZING! Just as good as any Seymour Duncan pickups. Came with 500k pots, brittle sounding and useless. It is a chambered Swamp ash on Swamp ash with black-yellow burst. I already have a Warmoth neck and since I could pick the exact one from their site I went for it. The guard was crap and the tortoise looked like it was printed on there rather cheaply. Some of the pictures at the Guitar Fetish site did look like they mismatched wood and some unattractive wood anomalies. Unlike his description, it DOES look like a cheap Saga guitar kit assembly. Ordered their prewired SSS pick guard (the $35 one). Only paid like $25 bucks though so no harm done to my wallet I suppose. I put my old used and beat up MIM saddles on it since they were still better. The chrome on the baseplate started chipping so fast, it did not sit well in the cavity of my guitar, and the saddles were the cheapest thing I have ever seen. GFS Solid block tremolo unit (not the Wilkinson branded): Garbage. Silver baseplates, chromed German Silver shells, USA made plain enamelĬoil wire, USA made push-back braided leads, genuine fiber bobbinįormers and the whole shebang is carefully potted in genuine beeswax.I have ordered a few things from GFS before. The quality of the Surf 90 is comparable to that of ANY TheseĪre spectacular for 50's rockabilly, amazing at surfy 60s stuff as wellĪs dynamic and snappy enough to do a convincing Hendrix vibe, while richĮnough to drive a Marshall head for a very articulate classic rock Harmonically rich midrange with a crisp but never harsh high end. VERY rich single coil sound- not unlike the bigness of a P90 soapbar,īut without the amp searing midrange. These pickups are wound full and firm, butĭecidedly vintage. That's everything from a Harmony Meteor to a Surf 90s can easily accommodate string spacing as narrow asĤ7mm and as wide as 56mm. The small nickel plated steelĪdjusting screws can be raised or lowered to provide correct stringīalance. Richer low end and a crisp, tight, dynamic high end.įits any standard humbucker mounting slot.Ĭharged Alnico A2 magnet rods have no stagger to them, which was found Going after the the big, fullbodied "Dearmond Dynasonic" sound, with a The Surf 90 is the GFS version of a classic 1950's Rockabilly pickup. They sounded very good but I got a deal on some TV Jones Classics and swapped them over for more of a "Gretsch" sound. These were in a Gretsch Hollowbody I received in trade for another guitar.
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