Fazley Midas FLP318GT Gold Top Electric Guitar

For £70 this guitar is a steal. I get QC is bit ropey but I got a good neck and body, rest of hardware kinda works but it needed 2hrs of fret levelling, crowning and polishing, out of box few dead frets on g and b past 12th fret. Paint job on front is solid bar the gap beteween bridge pickup and neck, back is fine too a few blemishes but this won't be a shelf queen and will be upgraded.

After some lemon oil and EB 8s put on it plays really quite nice. Neck is the thickest I have on any electric but you don't really notice when playing it. Not that mich thicker than my 335 or chibson LP special 2

Feedback can be helped by potting the P90s. ;-)

Bought this in the sale for £72. I own several Fazleys and they are cheap and cheerful, poor nuts and cheap parts but more than good at the price. This one arrived quickly and needed a little setting up, oil on the fretboard always drier than the Sahara on Fazleys. Plays and sounds better than I expected, not bad at all. Bad points is it looks superb from 10 feet away, get up close and the paint is bad, marks and flaws everywhere.
If I'd paid full price, or frankly more than I did it would have gone back or asked for a discount, at £72 I can live with it but more time needs to be spent on quality control. There's a fine line between inexpensive and cheap and nasty and this skirts that line.
A nice guitar that could have been a great guitar.

Bought on a Christmas deal for £72 minus £5 first purchase discount it was a no brainer, and wow i cant believe what turned up 2 days later. Very very nice , the odd mark, but nearly perfect. fifteen minutes setting it up and away ya go. Excellent, many thanks

I'll start by saying this guitar was excellent value for money (I paid £141). I already have number of guitars and bought it out of curiosity, to see what I could get at this price point and on the whole I haven't been disappointed.
Plus points- Nice finish, although the area between the neck pickup and the neck is a complete mess (cracks and topcoat missing). Reasonable tuners. Bridge/Tailpiece seem to be of good quality. Basic construction ie wooden parts are good. Nicely set up. Well packaged.
Bad points- Pickup mounting screw heads destroyed by whoever mounted them and as a result, screws not all the way in. I will need to replace these. Frets unplayable with deep tooling marks and needed some polishing. Nut fell out as not glued. Damage to fretboard, some of which had been filled and disguised with a black dye which came off when lemon oil was applied exposing a grey substance.
Having said all of that I would still recommend to anyone who doesn't mind 'tinkering'.

Fantastic Guitar for the money. Perfectly set up, great p90 sound, and worth modding in the future.