Grote Full Scale Electric Guitar Semi-Hollow Body Guitar Stainless Steel Frets(Red)

I recently purchased the Grote Full Scale Electric Guitar Semi-Hollow Body Guitar for my 12-year-old son as a Christmas gift, and I must say, I am thoroughly impressed with this instrument. As a beginner guitar player, my son needed a reliable and high-quality guitar to kickstart his musical journey, and this guitar has exceeded all our expectations. First and foremost, the craftsmanship of the Grote Semi-Hollow Body Guitar is top-notch. The attention to detail in the design and construction is remarkable, making it a visually stunning instrument. The semi-hollow body adds a unique touch, not only enhancing the guitar's aesthetics but also providing a rich and warm tone. The sound quality of this guitar is outstanding. The pickups deliver a crisp and clear tone, perfect for a variety of music genres. Whether my son wants to play rock, blues, or even jazz, this guitar can handle it all. The versatility it offers is truly remarkable, allowing my son to explore different playing styles and techniques with ease. One of the standout features of this guitar is its playability. The neck is smooth and comfortable, making it easy for my son to navigate the fretboard. The action is set up perfectly, ensuring effortless playing and minimizing any discomfort for a beginner. The guitar stays in tune remarkably well, even with my son's enthusiastic strumming and bending. The Grote Semi-Hollow Body Guitar also comes with all the necessary accessories for a beginner player. The included amp, cable, strap, and gig bag are of high quality and provide everything my son needs to get started. It's a great value for the price, considering the exceptional build and sound quality. Lastly, I must mention the excellent customer service provided by Grote. They were prompt in answering all my queries and ensured a smooth delivery. Their commitment to customer satisfaction is evident, and it further enhances the overall experience of owning this guitar. In conclusion, the Grote Full Scale Electric Guitar Semi-Hollow Body Guitar is an absolute gem for any beginner guitar player. Its stunning design, exceptional sound quality, and ease of play make it a perfect instrument for my 12-year-old son. I couldn't be happier with this purchase, and I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a high-quality electric guitar.

Rarely do I review products but I feel compelled to this time. Like a lot of others who have given reviews, I am amazed at the professional quality of this guitar at this price point. I also have been playing guitar for 25 years and my most expensive guitar is a PRS Custom SE 24 (retails around $849 at Guitar Center). I love my PRS but I learned on a guitar that was basically this GROTE guitar. However, the brand I had at the time was ‘Jay Turser’, also a semi-hollow body in a slightly deeper wine red (that guitar played/served me well for about 10 years playing out until it broke beyond repair). BACK THEN (1998?) I paid $350 for that guitar and have been through many guitars since. I always wanted to get that Jay Turser back so I found GROTE and I'm so glad I did. I do have some technical knowledge of how guitars work so I was able to set this guitar up, but I also did such LITTLE adjustment that anyone with a little patience could do it. It came packaged perfectly with no damage whatsoever. The neck was straight as an arrow (which is a great place to begin from to create a slight up-bow but honestly, I didn't bother with a truss rod adjustment!) The straight neck also created a lot of buzz which after tuning up, was (mostly) solved by lifting up the saddle (turning both turning wheels left with strings de-tuned). I stretched the stock strings over and over until I had good tuning stability and MAN! This guitar plays like a dream! No issues with electronics or finish or…anything (okay it's a little neck heavy but what more can you ask for for this price?!) Fantastic tone! It's beautiful! In short, there are more adjustments I can do to make her even better but for now, I'm hooked on this guitar plugged or unplugged! Get it. Buy a case! Take good care of it. You won't regret it.

Wonderful addition to my Guitar Collection, I own several Expensive Guitars, that I am almost afraid to use. This guitar looks Great, sounds wonderful, and plays like a dream. It has been a joy to play and is worth so much more than it has cost. The set up from the factory is pretty dang close to perfect, just a little tweak, and replacing original strings with my favorite strings...

All I can say is WOW, WOW,WOW. I collect high end guitars, some custom shop guitars as well as vintage gibsons and vintage amps. Been playing for 46 years...And yes Im a tone snob. For a "Players" guitar this is a deal of the century...I would say in all honesty it compares equally to an Epiphone Es-335...which last time I checked was around $1,100. Possibly made in the same factory but with slightly different specs. (I noticed the dot inlays on the side of the neck are smaller than a gibson / epiphone, and the frets are slightly smaller.) Upon arrival I plugged it into my 1972 Fender Quad-Verb, expecting the pickups to sound like garbage...what a pleasant surprise! They truly do sound like stock epiphone pickups!! I heard they are Korean made pickups. I have a couple of Gibson Burstbuckers off of my custom shop les paul that I was going to throw in there, but honestly I would say these pickups are 85% there, so I might leave them in. Only complaint, there is one high fret on the bass strings on the 15th fret, and its fretting out - so it needs some setup work (Heck, my Gibson Custom Shop '58 Les Paul needed a good setup also!!). Steel frets too! The only other steel fretted guitar I have is a $7,000 Warrior Dran Micheal. The action was surprisingly low, and the relief was spot on for a low action guitar. Even the nut is properly cut at the proper level for relief. The finish is about what you'll find on a decent epiphone - not bad at all! Fit and finish I would say is again, maybe 80-85% of a Gibson. No cheap wood here either, looks like actual maple neck and body - the fingerboard has a rosewood like grain, but its darker so it must be another similar wood. I pulled back on the neck and strummed an open G chord to see if it would flex like some crappy guitars do, but it was VERY stable, so i'm really thinking it is hard rock maple. The hardware - tuners, ABR bridge and stop tailpiece are decent quality, like what you'll find on an epiphone. The body has the contours of a true ES-335. I have no idea how they pulled this off, I put my bias aside and decided to buy it for yucks - So good that I ordered one for my adult son also - for less than $200 how can you go wrong?? IM SUPER IMPRESSED. If your'e reading this and your'e a tone snob like I am, try it out. For the price of a decent pedal, this guitar will absolutely surprise you. If you're going to buy an Epiphone at $1,100...buy this guitar, and invest the other $900 in a quality tube amp like a marshall or a Fender, Seriously!

I’m not sure what got me interested in a 335 style guitar. I think it was a video review of the Sire H7 that originally caught my eye, then sent me down the road of comparing all of the more affordable 335’s out there. I watched a bunch of reviews for the Sire, Ibanez, Firefly’s, and the Grote. I was convinced that anyone of them could be a good purchase, but the Grote was the least expensive, with pretty much all positive reviews. Based on those reviews, what I was expecting was a decently made guitar that was poorly packaged, would need new tuners, immediately need new strings, a fret polish, and set up. All things I’m capable of doing myself, and actually enjoying tinkering with so, for $185, I thought this could be a fun project guitar to mod and work on. What I got was a well packaged guitar, with perfect fit and finish. I looked at every inch of this thing looking for flaws in the binding or clear coat. Once I tuned it up I was surprised that the strings were actually pretty good. The frets were nicely polished with rolled edges, feeling like a high end premium instrument. The tuners aren’t bad, and there’s no need to hurry up and replace them, though I had ordered a replacement set with the guitar, expecting them to need immediate replacement. The set up out of the box was perfect. I checked for buzz at every fret, none. I didn’t measure the neck relief or string height, since they were both to my liking. I Checked the intonation, spot on. Checked the nut the way Phil McNight does, and it was perfect. So now that the build and set up passed, it was time to play. Before I ever plugged it in, once I started playing it, I couldn’t stop. The neck, which some have described as chunky, just felt perfect in my hand. I definitely wouldn’t describe it as chunky myself. A little fuller than a Strat neck, but in no way a negative. For me, the feel of the neck is everything. If it doesn’t feel good, nothing else can compensate for that. Plugged in, it’s just as impressive. I’m the opposite of a tone snob, so I don’t have the vocabulary to describe the nuances of the pick ups, and I don’t have an impressive rig to play through. What I can say is, from clean to dirty and in between, it sounds great to my ears. It was easy to get the iconic jazzy tone, and just as easy to get it to rock. I’m in no way a guitar expert as a player or a tech, but in my 30 years of playing, mostly as a hobbyist with a little gigging experience, I can’t say enough about how impressed I am with this guitar. I’ve played mostly Strat style guitars, Squiers, a MM Sterling, PRS SE Silver Sky, PRS SE 24, to name a few. I even had a cool Chibson Scotty Moore for a while, which gave me my first taste of the shorter scale. This guitar is definitely on par with all of these, and at a fraction of the cost of any of them. Hats off to Grote for being able to offer something this good at such an affordable price point.

TLDR: This guitar looks great, was set up well enough out of the box that I didn't have to adjust it, and is engineered to have the correct tonal quality. I gave $179 for this guitar. I had watched multiple reviews on YT as well as read reviews here. I was looking for a semi hollow 335 style guitar and bought this one because I liked the aesthetic, and it was cheap enough I could upgrade the electronics if needed. I bought this mainly for use in studio/recording so I can't say anything about live/stage performance. I looked this guitar over and can't really find anything aesthetically wrong with it. It really looks great. The burst was done well, the finish looks good, the wood grain looks good. I expected to spend a while dressing fret ends, adjusting intonation, etc. But mine was absolutely playable right out of the box. I will make some intonation adjustments on 3 strings but it is really good enough as is. It sounds the way I want this style of guitar to sound...warm and woody. The tone and volume pots have good taper and response from 0 through 10. It also plays true to style. I don't review many items, but I was so impressed with this guitar I had to write a review. Keep in mind at this price point there is probably a large spread in quality. So you may have to tweak the setup, etc. However all of the necessary components are there for this to be a great value for anyone at this price point. I wish guitars of this quality would have been available at this price when I started playing 30 years ago. This is a great guitar, but I would not recommend as a first guitar due to the style guitar and size of the neck. The neck is true to style and is a D shape. Also, this guitar has a large body.

Beautiful workmanship and nice playability. Has the appearance of being an expensive music instrument. String action was a bit high but I adjusted it down. The tuners are not very remarkable, as I have to retune everytime I play.

Good for the price. I like the look and it stays in tune. It’s a nicely crafted instrument but the materials used are obviously not super high quality. It does not sound as good as my fender guitars. I will be sending it back but if I didn’t have a guitar I would keep it.