August 29, 2023
Don't expect it to be ready to play right from the box. You could do it, but with a little help from someone with basic guitar tech knowledge you'll have a much better instrument. Not just better than when it arrived, but better than most options under $850 or so. Sure, the pickups aren't quite MiM strat, but they're not bad at all. I put in some fret sanding/polishing time, cleaned and oiled the neck, action adjustment and away we go. None of this is unusual in anything not super high end. It n ...
Don't expect it to be ready to play right from the box. You could do it, but with a little help from someone with basic guitar tech knowledge you'll have a much better instrument. Not just better than when it arrived, but better than most options under $850 or so. Sure, the pickups aren't quite MiM strat, but they're not bad at all. I put in some fret sanding/polishing time, cleaned and oiled the neck, action adjustment and away we go. None of this is unusual in anything not super high end. It needs done on basically every guitar, but at some point they start doing it more carefully from the factory. I've done the exact same work on major brands priced more than five times higher and wasn't particularly surprised. What amazed me with the Glarry was how good the bones are. At this price point you can take it to a good tech and get a full setup and fresh strings and still be under most options you'd buy in the various major music vendors, which would then need the same work anyway.
It may sound crazy, but I'm not sure I'd be happier if I'd gotten a MiM, which is what I owned previously. I gave someone a nice deal on that and am still ahead enough to buy several more Glarry's. I plan to buy some nice knobs and I did replace the tuners because I had a locking set on hand already, but the factory ones were the same stuff you see on most decent entry level guitars.
My only suggestion holds for basically every guitar. Replace the strings asap. They weren't bad, certainly not rusty like a certain SQU brand guitar I once bought, but a fresh high quality set of strings makes a huge difference in any guitar.
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