on February 25, 2023

Fantastic guitar. No fret buzz, looks, and feels great. The neck pickup sounds good also, but the bridge pickup on the one I got doesn't work however. I'll assume this was a fluke on the one I got because all the guitars I got from Glarry work just fine. No big deal for me as I was going to swap pickups anyways. This is something Glarry should watch out for though. I still give it a 4 for the quality and price of this guitar alone.

on December 31, 2022

I absolutely LOVE it ,all those bad reviews of this guitar,are just worth THAT MU cH FART Gas!It was CHERRY.. right outta the box..will play it as is tonight at practice!Well worth the wait to get it here,

on December 27, 2022

its a decent guitar for the price.

on October 05, 2022

Owned this instrument since January. Decent for the price, but arrived with some serious quality control issues such as damage to the body and knobs being loose to the point of breaking. Of course, with all guitars that are shipped, there is the concern for the aforementioned issues but even after attempting to fix them myself, there's still lingering issues such as fret spacing. Still not a bad guitar though, the issues mainly come down to the quality control and shipping.

on September 08, 2022

Very pleasantly surprised by this guitar. I only needed to set the intonation and shim up the humbucker (it floated top and bottom). I sanded down the back of the neck to knock down the drag from the gloss finish and it plays as smooth as my other guitar.

on September 05, 2022

When I received the guitar, I found many new upgrades, starting with double boxed packaging with internal neck support. The guitar was wrapped in a foam bag, and inside of the new padded gig bag. The cable has also been upgraded to a heavy nylon covered cable with metal ends, one straight, one 90°plug. Bound Laurel fretboard and bone nut. The awesome Purple finish is near flawless, smoothly applied with no runs, sags, or rough spots. The electronics and hardware all work smoothly, and the t ...

When I received the guitar, I found many new upgrades, starting with double boxed packaging with internal neck support. The guitar was wrapped in a foam bag, and inside of the new padded gig bag. The cable has also been upgraded to a heavy nylon covered cable with metal ends, one straight, one 90°plug. Bound Laurel fretboard and bone nut. The awesome Purple finish is near flawless, smoothly applied with no runs, sags, or rough spots. The electronics and hardware all work smoothly, and the tuner hold tune. Out of the box, the guitar plays well, but is in need of a setup, like most new guitars. The Setup: The neck is very straight and needed a slight adjustment of the truss rod to add a bit of relief. There was no fret sprout, but I did find a couple of frets a tad high, (all above the 12th fret), a few taps with the fret mallet sorted that out, and followed with a polish. The nut slots were even and well cut, but the nut was too tall for my liking, file the slots some, to avoid going to deep, I popped the nut off and filed the bottom to bring it into perfect height. A few dabs of PVA (white) glue reset the nut in place. Conditioned the fretboard with some lemon oil, it was really dry, and looks awesome now. Setting the string height and intonation were as simple as turning a few screws. The guitar now looks and plays wonderfully! Closing thoughts: This is a beautiful guitar, and Glarry's upgrades and revisions are greatly appreciated. The padded gig bag is nice, but grab yourself a soft, flurry towel to line the bag for extra safety, If you want even more security, Glarry sells a hard case to fit this guitar. If you are into mods this is a great platform. Want a Bigsby? add it, custom pickups? why not, locking tuners and strap lock? for me always! Way to go Glarry!

on August 29, 2022

very pretty guitar, it had pretty high action out of the box. but after shimming the neck and leveling and polishing the frets and oiling the fretboard, it really started playing very well, a new set of strings made it play and sound very good.

on August 26, 2022

It will arrive with action higher than most les Paul's! So you will need to lower it first thing. I got lucky and got nice frets but you may have to do a complete fret job! My strings were good but some say they had to change theirs first thing..now the pickup…the humbucker is actually pretty sweet and more than I expected..the bridge pickup well it's just there…it's decent to say the least…guitar is extremely light, so light it's almost scary…I will definitely have to pull the control p ...

It will arrive with action higher than most les Paul's! So you will need to lower it first thing. I got lucky and got nice frets but you may have to do a complete fret job! My strings were good but some say they had to change theirs first thing..now the pickup…the humbucker is actually pretty sweet and more than I expected..the bridge pickup well it's just there…it's decent to say the least…guitar is extremely light, so light it's almost scary…I will definitely have to pull the control plate off and do another update later on!! But all for all it is worth the money if you're willing to do some work on it first!!

on February 21, 2022

I expected a little better, after the Strat copy I bought was so good, but this one will need some work. However, this being the third cheapest guitar I've ever purchased, I expected to have to do a good deal of work to make it play to my liking. And luckily I love to work on guitars. So first, the red color is beautiful. I love the color. The style is great, it seems to be a loose copy of a hagstrom viking or guild starfire iv, and being a big fan of Elvis, and him using a hagstrom viking on th ...

I expected a little better, after the Strat copy I bought was so good, but this one will need some work. However, this being the third cheapest guitar I've ever purchased, I expected to have to do a good deal of work to make it play to my liking. And luckily I love to work on guitars. So first, the red color is beautiful. I love the color. The style is great, it seems to be a loose copy of a hagstrom viking or guild starfire iv, and being a big fan of Elvis, and him using a hagstrom viking on the 68' comeback, I really like. There are some spots where the paint dripped a bit, a couple places where they got a little too agressive with scraping the binding, and a couple of scratches on the front under the tailpiece and middle of the back. I should mention that the packaging was sub-par, it was double boxed, but nothing inside to support the guitar, and there was obviously some impact to the headstock, which caused enough flex to cause the binding to crack loose at the nut on the bass side. Second- the nut is bone, but the nut slot was cut at an angle, causing it to sit about 2mm higher on the bass side than the treble side. Third, the tuners are crap. but they always are on an inexpensive guitar. and the pickups leave a lot to be desired. they are functional, and sound ok, but I replaced them with some Artec P-90-in-a-humbucker type pickups. That one is my personal preference, the pickups would have been just fine. Overall, I'm happy at this price point. If you don't know how to work on guitars, or have someone around who does, I'd maybe put out a few more dollars for an epiphone, or cruise the pawnshops for something that's already been set-up. I love to tinker, so this is perfect for me. Overall, I'm happy with this purchase.

on January 28, 2022

As with any musician, we always look for the strengths and weaknesses in any instrument we purchase....And I saw quite a few strengths in all of my Glarry instruments, first with the GIB 5 string bass, then my Burning Flame Sunset 4-string, and NOW my GIZ101 Hollowbody Jazz Guitar (Purple Finish)....With a few exceptions of the paint finish on the product, the guitar is really quite impressive!!! It sounds incredible to be such a low priced instrument!!!! Nice warm tones, the double Humbucker ...

As with any musician, we always look for the strengths and weaknesses in any instrument we purchase....And I saw quite a few strengths in all of my Glarry instruments, first with the GIB 5 string bass, then my Burning Flame Sunset 4-string, and NOW my GIZ101 Hollowbody Jazz Guitar (Purple Finish)....With a few exceptions of the paint finish on the product, the guitar is really quite impressive!!! It sounds incredible to be such a low priced instrument!!!! Nice warm tones, the double Humbucker pickups with 2-way selector switch adds variety in the tone....I would suggest higher quality made tuners to ensure that the instrument stays in tune while playing!! Its VERY lightweight!!! And that PURPLE COLOR THO!!!!!!

on January 19, 2022

Great new line Glarry has put together-BLACK is always in style

on January 13, 2022

Every color looks so good--it was hard to chose one!

on January 10, 2022

I recently received my GIZ101 and overall I am very pleased.Once again Glarry has produced an instrument which exceeds my expectation for a guitar in this price range. There is some bleeding of Black on the white binding but it's no big deal to me. However the first fret F , at the low E string is terrible. There is a burr which is even visible from behind the neck, painful to the touch. A quick run over with a fret file will correct it , but it is the only fret with the problem (on this guitar ...

I recently received my GIZ101 and overall I am very pleased.Once again Glarry has produced an instrument which exceeds my expectation for a guitar in this price range. There is some bleeding of Black on the white binding but it's no big deal to me. However the first fret F , at the low E string is terrible. There is a burr which is even visible from behind the neck, painful to the touch. A quick run over with a fret file will correct it , but it is the only fret with the problem (on this guitar ) , and you might find a similar issue on a more expensive guitar on occasion , so I can deal with it. I like the guitar and I'm thinking about buying the sunburst model as well. Thanks, Glarry !

on January 08, 2022

I've always wanted a 335-style guitar. When I saw Glarry was adding the GIZ101 Semi-Hollow Electric Guitars to their line up I told myself I order as soon as they were available to order I would order one. And that's exactly what I did. I got purple because I recently ended up with a 7-string purple guitar. The GIZ101is set up nicely out of the box. It plays well and sounds great. The GIZ101 is a great value if you want a sweet jazzy sound the ability to rock hard on the same guitar.

on January 05, 2022

Glarry delivers on what they promise. I've been playing 30+ years. This is my 5th Glarry. My purple model is one of the smoothest and warmest sounding archtops I've played. Not too heavy and the setup/ intonation were very, very close. Bright grape purple too.