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I had an '80s GS1 with a P-90 (I added a Strat neck pickup) and a '90s GS2-60 which I fitted with a really unsuitable pair of DiMarzios (which sounded worse than the stock pickups).
Both were OK, the former more than the latter, but they were nothing special.
I've said it before, but I never understood why the UK guitar magazines would rave about them and say what bargains they were. I always thought they were quite expensive given the fact there were no import costs involved - the prices were comparable with the cheapest, entry-level Gibsons but the QC was even worse.
On the whole, I was happy with both guitars. I follow the new outfit on Facebook and some of their stock looks tasty, albeit more expensive. I did read a bit of a horror story about deposits and waiting times here quite recently though...
After a while I noticed the frets looked wrong: They were perpendicular to the edge of fretboard, instead of the centreline of the guitar.
(Perhaps @wezv or someone can tell me if that's a serious issue......sort of fanned frets I suppose!)
I wasn't too impressed with that so I took it back to Sounds Great, with my engineers square, and we ended up checking all the GS's in the shop......some were the same way, some were the 'right' way.
Kind of put me off.
But it does highlight a clear fault in their manufacturing processes and i wouldn't accept it on anything other than a slanted fret rickenbacker, where it was done as an intentional feature
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I once intentionally made an electric mandolin with the frets perpendicular to the treble side of the fingerboard - not as drastic as the Rick angled frets, but still makes those awkward mandolin chords easier.
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No, the bridge and nut were conventional, as far as I could see. In fact a remember you could clearly see an angle between the nut and first fret! The square showed it up clearly too.
It was the old John Smith ones.
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The actual woodworking was OK.