DOES THIS $289 GUITAR LIVE UP TO THE HYPE? || SLICK SL52
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HOW IS THIS SO CHEAP?? || SLICK GUITARS SL52
Should I add this one to the High Intergrity mod project queue?? 😀
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This ABSOLUTELY deserves to be modded within an inch of its life!
Time to order a Warmoth Baritone Conversation neck made out of Wenge with an Ebony fretboard and stainless steel frets. Just saying...
Had one of these for a bit, it’s quite frankly impressive how much they put in spec wise. It’s a solid workhorse on a budget. All I did was a fret polish and setup, it’s a no nonsense rocker. I actually recommended this guitar to my students. That said, I’d mod it up. At least the neck, get a new neck with a stronger bolt to the body. Graphite nut, locking tuners. Maybe throw on a kill switch or a tone knob?
Definitely needs to be modded the hell out of.
Yes! Mod this bad boy!!!
I love that purple
Purp supremacy
Turquoise ash is better
Yo that looks sick ngl. Love your work Hunter :)
Sure does, thanks, man!
I like that you have more room in the new place to play metal like it's supposed to be played, standing up with the guitar just above your knees 🎸🤘
These always caught my eye but I was always leery (although I’ve had some great experiences with GFS pickups). This looks and sounds awesome! Also, nice little bit of Mammoth WVH you sneaked in 👍
Was wondering if anyone would catch the Mammoth WVH!
Also caught the mammoth wvh, killer album
This is your sickest demo song this year. it is great!
* sLickest. Thanks, man! It’s actually a re-imagining of one I did a couple years ago that was requested on Patreon
@@agufish annnnd there’s the evolution of Hunter into a dad joke slinger.
The most impressive bit is the shielding. They usually don't bother with it on imports.
It’s actually become pretty common last couple of years, glad it’s becoming a standard even on super affordable models!
Hey CarvinFag14 The whole Guitar was impressive you Big DUMMY. WTF You Don't get laid alot do you? Agufish I Have 3 Slick Guitars and they all stand up to my expensive fiddles, my most played fiddles to date. Great Vid Fish.
Had to shield my solar because it was so noisy. That black paint does nothing
They shield everything. They sell shielding paint. I used it on my classic vibe and GIBSON LP
Thank you for playing one of my favorite trivium songs
These Slick guitars have always intrigued. Cool to see them in a review video.
Those lights are fucking stupid.
I love them. Good shit.
I love everything about it except I want ebony with block inlays
It’s a bolt-on, so you can easily get a new neck for it with an ebony board and block inlays!
Have you checked out the block inlay stickers? They're surprisingly convincing, super affordable, and easy to apply. I recently put some on an epi and it totally changed the looks.... definitely an affordable option if you otherwise like the neck.
sick
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At 6:40 is called fret sprout, doesn’t matter how expensive the guitar is, every guitar (due to humidity changes) can experience fret sprout.
exactly. it's just a result of the neck wood expanding or contracting based on climate
the double cuts look cool; almost cheap enough to just go for it.
Whoa. Linkin Park lick? Super rare 🤘🏽
I actually love a heavy guitar…I like the way it feels…that us a sweet guitar!!!!
You absolutely can't go wrong with GuitarFetish guitars for the price imo
That headstock is something truly awful.
I like the guitar but the cartoon image of Slick kills it. The headstock shape is actually an intelligent design it mitigates strings flaring out.
Sounds great! I have the SL-55 (the Tele-style body with Filtertron-style pickups and a 24.75" scale) and love it to death. I currently have it tuned to C,G,D,A,E,E (all 5ths tuning, plus a "drone" high E string). The neck on my guitar is really well done - great fret edges.
I watch how the moon sits in the sky on a dark night
I bought a Slick a few years back. It sounded great but had the roughest feeling frets of any guitar I've played. Felt like sandpaper. BUT..it was less than 200 bucks so..lol
Made it sound great bro!
You can get some fretboard radius gauges cheap just to check that spec fwiw.
Did I just hear a Nickleback riff?
Absolutely
Know you like them simongle cuts my dude. I've been curious about these guitars for a while... to see if it can work for our kind of music. I see it does. Nice looking guitar too. Solid. Great review and demo
I have the exact guitar. One of my favorites.
Agree about the neck I had to do some work on the frets as well as rounding off the fretboard edges
Very very impressed with the pickups. Astoundingly good
I've had an SL51 (basic Tele) in Black Ash for a couple years now. The thing is SOLID. One of my favorite guitars. Such a great deal.
This is exactly what I’ve been looking for, a simplified special/jr style les paul that still has humbuckers.
1. Love that purple 2. Brass is a cheaper metal manufacturing wise which I'm sure cuts the cost, I almost bought one of these and I'm still eyeballing them
Brass is not cheaper than pot metal/diecast zinc. Which is what 99% of import hardware is made from.
The thing you aren’t considering, however, is volume. Brass hardware is made in significantly smaller quantities which will almost always result in a higher cost per unit. The cheap generic hardware that is put on most guitars in this price range cost pennies because of the volume they are made in.
@@bfluker85 always feels good to see someone actually using their brain in the comments section, thank you
I got a Silver Semi Hollow Single Cut from Xavier off of GFS and it was insane. I got it on clearance and on sale (30% off clearance) because it had some small finish runs by the neck (could only see it in some light) so I got it for $190 after the sale and it was amazing. Buddy liked it so much he gave me $300.
I'm going with the turquoise SL54T as my single pickup strat.
They're confirmed to use Fender-standard pockets, so it'll be getting a roasted maple warmoth neck and a VegaTrem at some point.
What warmoth neck will fit the pocket? Thinking of doing the same thing
@@edbrady3006 any of them. Warmoth licenses Fender specs.
These look awesome. I just wish they made carved tops. Especially in the double cut series.
Great review!
I own the SL57 the Strat model. Absolutely beyond worth the money. I had to shave the nut a little but otherwise phenomenal instrument! But the heaviness is so extreme it makes the guitar sometimes less inspiring to play. Take off a pound or 2 and this would be just flawless
I'm not crazy about wraparound bridges, or the shape of that headstock, BUT I love sandblasted guitars done in beautiful colors. Besides it sounds awesome playing that monstrous riff! 🤘 I'll have one.
Getting a turquoise ash SL52 Today and I am excited
well seeing as you’ve gotten something off their website already, i’d absolutely love if you showed off some GFS Pickups and their quick connect stuff!
It sounds Pretty Good!
Hunter I mean this with all sincerity. Since Earl Slick played for both Lennon and Bowie, I will say that I think your creativity would make them both proud.
I love that colour
Honestly the back double cut with the single P90 is really cool looking
That demo song was wild
I own three of the Slick brand guitars. Definitely worth every penny just for the hardware alone. Lots of brass and excellent pickups. My only advice to anyone purchasing a Slick guitar is get a really good setup and fret level done to bring the guitar to life.
I’m a guitar tech and I go through them and turn them into gems!
I own many guitars and some of them are worth the price of a damn car. But after a great setup I can say these are now my go to instruments. I love playing them.
Hey you’re great do you know if the following guitar exists basically an esp te 201 but with a traditional tele pickup. Not a fan of the controls on the esquire. I feel the the humbucker in te 201 gives two much overlap with my current collection to justify
I'm looking at the P90 version of this. Thanks!
I bought one of these in crappy black finish shortly after they were on the market. I remember having a subscription to Guitar Player and Earl Slick shilled these pretty hard in print, so I went for it thinking I was gonna get a hearty Les Paul knockoff. I was wrong. It's got it's own sound, very thick. The bridge pickup is Honk City, hardly useable (unless you know some sweet Middle Eastern scales!). The mid-range pours out of it, and I'm heavy on the EQ when I use it since my 80's style requires a TON of treble. It sounds terrific through a compressor, but then, most things do (pending you know how to use compressors). It's been almost 8 years and I've had few issues, which is cool since it's such a simple guitar with a single volume knob and the obligatory pickup switch. Everyone who's played it over the years had loved it! Sound and playability are both check, it feels good, easy to play. Build quality, however, remains spotty, as many have stated here. There is literal overhang of the fretboard that surpasses the bottom of the neck on mine lol!! WTF?
Damn thats a nice guitar.
Had an SL54 for a number of years now. Adds a nice tone for a change of pace. Needs a bit of work on set-up but well worth the money. If you set it up with Guitar Fetish Kwikplug pick-ups you can change pick-ups in a jiffy!! It’s a great partnership for budget set ups.
Also, Mo Salah extended his contract last week. #YNWA
Sucks that in Europe the finish option is fairly limited. Might try to import one straight from the US in the future
Hey Hunter,
I am the one that asked about your Radial power supply . Finally got it.
Can you give me some information on the amp switcher you have now. Also what new Mac you are using ( specs).
Trying to rebuild my little studio after I lost everything to a flood.
Wiped out my IMac , Audio interface, speakers and cables.
I'm buying one. Only needs one mod... a direct out button for the bridge pup straight to the cord. The fret ends - nice lil project to make them perfect. Might take a couple hours for a novice like me. I will also remove the pup covers and the surrounds.
Hunter. Just something I would add since you mentioned it. You said you wanted your sig to have a finish like that but couldn't find a place cheap enough to do wood filler. Well, these guitars don't use filler at all. They just hit the raw body with a single coat of automotive paint and then sand it back. They mention it in a few of their videos. So if you're still scratching your head. The key is not finding the right filler, it's not using filler at all to get a finish like this apparently. Automotive paint is crazy cheap in volume so that's one of the ways they're also saving a ton of money on these guitars.
Didn't know you were based in Georgia, what are your thoughts on the Guidestones getting demolished. Cool guitar btw hope you do a follow up once you customize it a bit.
I hadn't heard of that until your comment. That's pretty wild.
Didn’t even know what the Guidestones were until you mentioned it haha. Random af, why would someone blow it up… or even make it in the first place lol?
Guide stones about the earth population and the hidden agenda
GFS/Slick are really good for the budget, I had a Xaviere Pbass copy and It was good but the neck was the issue in that case
They are actually on sale today (6 13 23) for $200! I picked one up recently and was a little leary as the last GF guitar I bought was a total mess. Fortunately this one made up for it. The burnt cherry finish is beautiful . The set up was surprisingly good. Unlike yours my fret ends were fine, and the weight was a reasonable 8.5 lbs. I did have to lightly sand the neck as it felt a bit rough. The pickups are amazing for this price point. Much better than on the $325 Harley Benton LP I bought recently. Thanks for turning me on to a really fun guitar!
My main go to guitar is an SL51, the tele style that I modded out
3:10 thanks now i have this song in my brain
I'd like to try the Slick Alnico V pickups. YMMV but I personally really like the sound of Epiphone DOT pickups. I have bought a couple of sets cheap used and I enjoy them a lot.
Was eyeing one of their telecasters for a while. Love everything about this LP. But that headstock is uh... interesting
Luckily, it’s a bolt-on 😂
@@agufish don't know if you've seen it, I believe it's Philip McKnight, has a great video on the modern tele. Very pretty and nice sounding guitar for the price. Hope to see more slicks on here tho 👀
From most honest and decent players who have reviewed this line say many of the same things. Great hardware, heavy weighted, cool finish, great bridge, nice wood on the neck, nice finish on neck but frets that aren’t flush to neck and that are gritty (but the grit can be easily polished, well set up on arrival, great control cavity with room for mods. So you’re pretty much spot on with your review which makes me have to buy one. I’ve been looking into these guitars for four years now, In the meantime I purchased 6 Strats, 3 Gibson Les Paul’s, 3 Ernie Balls, a Line 6 DT 25 (great sounding amp that can’t be repaired because line is discontinued so How much wanna pay more than the value of the amp you’re screwed),a tweed blues Junior - in my opinion over rated and currently way over priced (I bought as a practice amp, too loud if you want decent tone, with no headroom, collapses when you try to hit that sweet spot that when you think you found when you dig in it becomes a flubby,tubby, and muddy sludge machine), a tweed Fender deluxe - great amp (but too loud for practice), a Blackstar HT Club 40 MK II with EL 34s ( killer amp with attenuation but even at 1 watt you have to really get that volume control up there but no complaints), VOC AC15-great by itself but pretty loud, key is to crank the power section, get the preamp volume at at least 9 o’clock preferably higher, turn you guitar volume at about halfway, get a transparent overdrive even with high gain and amp in a box pedals with mid to high gain-the Fulltone Plimsoul, OCD, the MXR EVH 5150, a Friedman BE OD, a Jetter GH 124 (Dumble in s box), a Caitlin Bread Dirty Little Secret (Plexi in a Box) to name a few. Based on the gain level turn it down all the way or up to 9 o’clock and use the pedals volume to control volume. Now your AC15 plays with all the vintage fullness of an amp with the power tubes giving you warm natural sounding distortion when you turn your guitar volume up and a touch dynamic note blooming monster when you get the volume on edge of break up with medium attack, clean with light touch and crunchy with a little dig), a Fender Bassbreaker 15 (awesome tone but unfortunately it is a servicing nightmare).
But I digress, $20,000 plus later and I could have saved myself probably $5-$8 thousand had I bought 3 slick guitars and cases. Almost all the Strats were inconsistent dogs (unless you have $5 k to buy a custom shop, imho you have to play every strat in the house whether Mexican, Japanese or American. Frankly, my best sounding Strats Included an incredible Japanese that I traded for an awesome Gibson SG but I should have traded my least favorite LP and gotten some cash on top of it. The only Strats I have left is the America lone star with Texas specials (Sounds like Stevie Rays Strats). The other 2 American both HSS (a big mistake). He want a good strat than buy ones with three single coils and play a lot of them. If you want a super strat buy a Charvel, EVH, Suhr, Musicman or Ibanez. Fenders HSS simply don’t work and the volume pot is in the wrong place. I bet the Slick Super Strat sounds significantly better
But I digress
At 13:36 -13:39 what kind of bug is that running across were the neck sits in the case?
I love heaven guitars
Does anyone know what Hunter is using as his “fret wrap” - it looks kind of straight for a hair tie. Is it a clip of some kind?
Not sure if it's the same one, but look up The Jimmy Clip
I wonder if you could file [end] down the fretboard? or would you need fret rocker and and straight edge and all that jazz.
For the side you need a bevel file. You can make one easily yourself, but it's a bit of a pain. Been there, works well. But if the frets are filed down properly, no fret rocker etc. is needed, but fret end finishing files, the bevel file, sandpaper etc. so in the end it will also cost out quite some money and requires some skill.
Yup.
I have an Xaviere lp style guitar that has a Floyd Rose tremolo and coil splits and a flame top from Guitar Fetish and for $309. The quality is good enough that I can't figure out how they sale them that cheap. Check one out. I've been looking at those Slick guitars and thinking about getting one.
What are those lights in the background 2:09
impossible to find here where i live without paying hundreds of tax. great demo
Does the heel joint get in the way.
I like the Xaviere line better from GFS. I got a lemon-burst, single-cut, carved top, its got a 1/2" maple top (the flame is just a veneer though, its not a full 1/2" of flamed maple), mahogany body, set neck, extra long neck tenon, the pickups are on their removable system... and also less than $300. Either way, GFS is a good place to spend your money.
It looks reminiscent of a first act with that headstock. Otherwise as a beginner and intermediate player these days even with the recent inflation you have some great low cost options for guitars, amps, pedals etc.
We need to get a Slick to give away on the Discord 👀
Only if Koshi comes with the case!
Alnico V, and brass bridge actually sound cool, unfoetunately I already have enough guitars on that price bracket. 😅
amazing value.
........other brands will hammer you on $ for some of those specs.......
Like you say, with any budget guitar line, there is always going to be some guitars
that are dragging the larger bunch down......it's just about a QC thing..... and the speed they need
to get them out of the factory (i believe)
But i believe it's a low percentage of the bunch that "could" have small issues and
there is always returns to have it replaced.......
without you saying it, i was guessing you felt you could have "superimposed" that guitar into even
a lower "Schecter spot"..... and it would still have holded it's own....
i heard of Slick a few years back and appreciate your review of on "honest to god" guitar
which IS very good.
V.
Where can I buy one?
I keep a fret file around and when i was young i got alot done with fingernail files
They really could do with more dealers. The 'one', wont send to New Zealand. Not ideal!!
This is temporary. GuitarFetish will send to NZ, but their courier currently isn't.
Last riff in that song was sick (pun intended)
I wonder if this feels more like a les paul or a les paul special/jr.
I am in the market for a special/jr. This guitar seems like something i would want but I wonder how it feels.
Definitely more like a Special than a Standard
I see a Matt heafy signature in the back, and u play "Until The World Goes Cold". . . .so does this mean the next review will be his modle ?? 👀
Ask Matt 😜
I have this guitar; the pickups sound fantastic! The neck feels great, but I am not a fan of the dark front of the neck.
So you can put a strat neck on it??
Well....that guitar is......Slick. Nuff said.
8:19
Oooh... a Nickelback riff.... a man of culture I see. Good that you don't give a flying frying pan (I'll try to keep it clean for your little baby) about the haters who can't even name a song.
I've heard of other people complaining about fret problems with their slick guitars
Alright just gonna casually drop the Mammoth in there
So mad that they ditched the black sl59 it was a sick bmdistressed black
Time for a high intergrity mod with warmoth
"Koshi not included" then i dont waaaant it T_T what a cute cat
Fret sprout would actually get less obtrusive with warmer/humid climate. It would have been in it's worse state in dry (February) colder climate.
Slick like me running to the toilet
Let me guess... Fishman Fluence in that singlecut body for a change? 😂
You should go red and blue, Duncan and Dimarzio, P-Rail and HB sized P90s.
Hunter played nickel back in a video idk if I should laugh or feel ashamed that I immediately recognized the song 😂
Какой то Неистовый Инструмент для Прогрессивного Металла! Выхлоп, читаемость, плотность в звуке, Ясеневая Дека и Бридж без дополнительного тюна матика. За такие деньги это просто Мечта! Достойный инструмент, который заслужил каждый Человек кому нужен Ибанез и Солар за дёшево Звук.
I heard you sneak a place for my head in there by linkin park😎😉😂😂🤘🤘🤘
Why are we programned to think a low cost instrument must be modded. Good looking, good playing, goid sounding guitar is......good, no mod required.
Woah woah woah woah woah….. was that a nickelback riff
If it was a carved top I would buy no questions asked but flat tops leave something to be desired I feel carved tops play feel better more comfortable
Nice guitar, but why are'nt anyone talking about the elephant in the room? That headstock and that logo is hideous :O
Wait, Linkin Park and Nickleback...deep cuts, Hunter?
I have purchased hardware from these guys make good replacement hardware for kits. The kits are hit and miss. As to weight, picked up a Chapman the other day at a Music-Go-Round, amazed by how heavy it was.