Product: Gremlin Black Thing Price Paid: US $40 used used
Submitted 01/15/2004
at 03:06pm
by sam schirmer
Features
:4
i think it said made in indonesia on a sticker on the neck, 22 frets, black, strat type body, chrome hardware, rosewood fretboard(?), smallish body, single, bridge humbucker, one tone, one volume knob, and i think it had a trem, but i got mine used without one. so few features, yet so adequate. simple and great.
Sound
:8
nice treble sound, great sustain. not very bassy, but great for playing stuff like tool. one of the only guitars ive ever played that sounds almost exact for aenima. the only problem is when you need a heavy or deep growling sound. its got the growl, but like the name gremlin suggests, its high pitched.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:7
everythings fine, and i got it used. i had a bit of trouble with the knobs loosening up, but nothing major.
Reliability/Durability
:10
this guitar is solid. think german solid. like, the berlin wall before it fell. ive dropped it neck first (accidentally of course) and all i had to do was retune it.
Customer Support
:1
the type i have is discontinued, so i guess N/A.
Overall Rating
:9
i love this thing. i want to get another one because theyre so cheap, and if this one ever failed, i'd miss it greatly. if it was lost and i could find another one, i'd buy it in a heart beat. i have a bc rich warlock, and i use it as a back up to this. its very small and light, making it easy to manuver, and the action on mine is great for tapping or anything else i'd need. i wish mine had the trem, but its no big deal. i would strongly reccomend this thing, even just as a backup guitar, since it's so reliable.
Product: Gremlin Black Thing Price Paid: US Charged friend $2.50 for the nut repair
Submitted 07/22/2000
at 12:28pm
by Anonymous
Features
:5
Heres another one of your guitars from the strange, underground, pawn shop prize palace. It has a maple neck, rosewood fingerboard, 22 frets, those cheap pyramid top tuners with chromed plastic grommets, small super-strat style body with 1 humbucker, 1 volume, 1 tone, strat style bridge, and side mounted output jack.
Sound
:10
This little son of a bitch can rock! Very Van-Haleny sounding (Like off the David Lee Roth Era songs). A perfect guitar for the Ed-head on a budget or for a midget with long arms who likes Van-Halen's music. This thing will do it all: "Ain't Talkin' Bout' Love", "Dance The night Away", or even the trem is good enough for "Eruption".
Action, Fit, & Finish
:9
This guitar sucked when it came into my shop, the high E string slot on the nut was busted. So i took a piece of plastic from a typewriter cover and cut it to size, and made an abs plastic nut out of it. And The nut was so bad ass that this guitar's action could compete with Paul Reed Smith in the action department. The finish is red, if it was mine i would have made it into a Van-halen cover guitar (i can see it now, "Grem-lin-stien"). This guitar is one to make you appreciate the simple things in life, like two knob, one pikup guitars.
Reliability/Durability
:9
Like all the little plywood beasts they make/have made in china sience the 1970's, this thing could stand war, famine, and hell and it would still stand like a stone statue. i am only taking one point off for one thing, The nut. The little black plastic piece of crap they used originally just cant take the heat like the rest of the guitar.
Customer Support
:No Opinion
I gave my part of customer support.
Overall Rating
:No Opinion
Product: Gremlin Black Thing Price Paid: US $50.00 used
Submitted 02/23/1999
at 09:44pm
by Rhino
Features
:5
Well, let me start by saying that this guitar is a great begginer guitar. It's black, has 20 frets, one volume control, one tone control, one humbucker pickup. I can't tell if the body is solid or laminated? The tuners suck. Needs tuned after playing about a half hour. The neck is of medium thickness, pretty comfortable.
Sound
:5
If you like that nasty, raspy distortion, which I do like sometimes. Then you would like the way this thing sounds. You can't change it to much, it only has the single humbucker. It has a pretty full sound to it.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:8
It looks good, it feels good, and I thing it's almost indestructable. The thing I hate most about it are the tuning keys, they suck. If you play it more than a half an hour, or when you pick it up after it's been sitting for a day, you have to tune it. The finish is very good for a cheap guitar. I've had it for a few years, and don't take good care of it, yet it looks like new?
Reliability/Durability
:7
I've never played with it at a gig, but I would. I've played the thing for years and the only prob I have is the tuning. It has good strap buttons, never came loose.
Customer Support
:No Opinion
Never used it, nor do I think it exsist? I can't find any info on this guitar anywhere on the web.
Overall Rating
:7
I've been playing for a few years, I currently own a couple of Washburns, and this thing isn't even close to them, but it's a good all around begginer guitar. If somebody stole it, I would be pissed, and I would hunt them down and beat them with it, because it seems to be quite durable. I like everything but the tuning keys.