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The woodworking is very nice on this guitar and the finish work. If you are planning on upgrading hardware on this guitar, then I would rate it pretty much all 5s. I will just say it, it has a plastic nut, really crap tuners and needs a proper setup likely including fretwork. What this means is that it will not stay in tune and notes will fret out. Now every guitar esp when new even expensive ones need a set up. So even if American made the moisture and humidity causes changes, this guitar comes from China to you. So we can expect that a set up is in order. Then you cannot expect a great fret job at this price point. Every Factory guitar needs this, so nothing unusual here. The tuning keys are inexcusably cheap, that is ok with me since I planned to change them anyway. I think that Gretsch owners by nature like to modify their guitars and that Gretsch has made the right choice to keep costs down by putting the money into the woodworking and finishwork. However if you see the Gretsch demo of this guitar from Gretsch, it is also out of tune. So 5 stars for value and if upgrading and 3 stars if keeping stock

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The pros are: it is well made esp for this price point, sounds fantastic, looks good. Cons: the pickups sound great, but think close up they look a bit on the cheap side, but from a distance look great, I am very surprised how good this guitar sounds. The downside is like the other review is due to the fretwork, cheap tuners it will fret out and not stay in tune. The obvious answer is to replace the nut, replace with better quality tuning keys and get a setup including fretwork. If you plan to customize this guitar, then I rate it straight 5 in quality. For me there is no need to replace the pickups since they sound fantastic, however your guitar technique will be different and you may like something else. I should say every guitar made unless made by someone in your town needs a setup, even guitars costing twice or three times this one. This guitar is quality where it counts, wonderful construction and a beautifully playing guitar that sounds wonderful. Just be aware that when you buy this it needs another couple hundred dollars in setup work, tuning keys and nut and even at that price you have an amazing value

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