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2025-07-31 16:20:58
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Larry M
2025-05-16 10:50:03
I have lots of guitars in all price ranges. I am a Luthier and sometimes buy things that look good figuring I can fine tune the frets, intonation, etc. When this one arrived I was surprised that it was great right out of the box! I had bought another Grote a couple of years ago and it turned out to be a great player after filing some frets, recutting the nut, changing the strings and proper intonation. I was expecting the same for this one but it was much better than I anticipated. I would buy this again in a heartbeat. The neck is a bit chunky which could be a plus or minus depending on your taste. The pickups sound fine. the fret work is good, the tuners work well. The playability and tone are far better than you might expect in this price range. I suggest giving it a try. I won't be selling mine because it records nicely and looks good when I take it out to play in public. I'd hate to see it get damaged, but if it did, at least I won't have lost a priceless instrument!
marco miramontes
2025-01-18 15:36:00
I was very Skeptical even about ordering it, but I pulled the trigger and it arrived one week later. It was delivered and it was in a flimsy cardboard triangular shaped box. My immediate response upon seeing it was "Just great, look at that $#!t". My curiosity got the best of me so I picked it up and took it to my room. I was expecting the worse because I judged it by its (cardboard) cover. I was expecting to ship it right back to Amazon because of a hundred reasons I would find. So after thinking of what I was gonna write in the description of why I was returning it, I just opened it as fast as I could just like peeling off a band-aid. I removed the thin poly bag that it was in, I eyeballed like if I was buying a 6k Gibson Custom Shop Explorer and low and behold this $200.00 guitar looked pretty amazing, compared to most brands of the same style . Looks is one thing but it really looked great, the binding ,the finish the chrome, it was really a quality build except for the cheap plastic pickgard. So I put a strap on it & tuned it. I quickly noticed it was balanced quite well, I adjusted the strap up high ala Roy Orbison style and then low like that dude from the foo foo fighters and like I said it was well balanced so I plugged it into two amps. first a solid state amp which make just about any guitar sound good... I was impressed that for being a large semi-hollow body design that I could actually reach past the 15th fret with ease. I SAID DANG GUM once again as I was ripping past the 15th fret all the way up to the mid 20's I saw myself onstage, stobe lights flashing, fog machines pumping smoke and lazer lights blinding you and pretty ladies showing their hearts. And then I switched to my tube amp with Alnico speakers and this freakin Grote 335 in tobacco style finish sounded even better.. From smooth jazzy clean to Ted Nugent style hard rock. This guitar was able to handle it. I've had it about 2 months and the only complaint I got is the tunning keys, but I figured hey what the funk If I wanted it for a daily rig or a performer I would do the upgrade. but for now I put it in front of my 5 other Gibson LP's and American Fender strats.. As most of you already know no two guitars sound the same and mine could be that Unicorn but you'll never know untill you play one or two. I would recommend this for newbies to the hardened seasoned pro just maybe you might get inspired and play your heart out like I do even if it's in my head.
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