Anyone bought from guitar fetish?

entee

 

I was interested to read this as I am searching for a cheap neck wide range humbucker for my Thinline Tele build and the only one I can find is the GFS Wide Tone Fat. I think they are made by Artec and have been trying to find the same pick-up under their badge for sale in the UK so I can avoid import taxes etc but have failed.

Anyone aware of someone in the UK who stocks this pick-up?

Cheers!

Dude, no idea about the pups you mention, but I bought NY II/IIIs for my Gretsch from GFS and they didn't get import tax added to them - came through with no bother and very quickly....

longjaw

Cheers bud, there used to be a sticky on the Music Radar forum that had details of Import Tax charges etc but I can't see one on here - does anyone know when charges apply on stuff inported from non-EU countries?

OilCityPickups

Minimum you'll pay is 20% VAT if customs stop the package. 

Megii

Bought a Retrotron Surf 90 pickup from them - arrived very quickly and a great pickup. Paid no VAT, but of course that should not be assumed.

pintspiller

Firstly, apologies about resurrecting an old thread.

Like a poster above, I think that the likes of Guitar Fetish, Artec and Eastwood components come from the same factories and that quality is higher than expected.

My back-up guitar is a '74 Gibson SG Special. It sounded much better unplugged and low-volume test in shop than it did when I actually got it home. The mini-humbuckers in it didn't really compare to the high-output of the pickups in my Gordon-Smith, so I replaced them with Seymourised Mini-humbuckers - which didn't make much difference.

I removed the humbuckers and installed an unmarked P90 I picked up on Ebay for £10 or something that I believe to have been Artec. It improved the guitar no-end. Turned it into a garage-rock demon. High-gain, low-gain, roll-back-on-volume. Effing great! 

longjaw

longjaw said:

Thread resurrected!

I was interested to read this as I am searching for a cheap neck wide range humbucker for my Thinline Tele build and the only one I can find is the GFS Wide Tone Fat. I think they are made by Artec and have been trying to find the same pick-up under their badge for sale in the UK so I can avoid import taxes etc but have failed.

Anyone aware of someone in the UK who stocks this pick-up?

Cheers!

Might as well update on this - I bought a set from GFS and they're great:

usedtobe

Bought a pair of humbuckers, years ago. Happy with them.

Deadman

I bought some GFS premium Strat pickups off their eBay site years ago, I think they were a '69 replica. They were pretty nice sounding for the dosh. Service was quick from what I remember.