Fender Grace VanderWaal Soprano Uke 1-star Reviews

Incredibly poor workmanship

I'm a guitar player and I bought a Harley Benton UK-12 Ukulele for my little daughter. Since I really enjoyed playing it, I decided to buy a nicer one for me and I chose this Fender (mainly for the brand, being a guitar guy).

I was excited to get it but, when I opened the box, I was blown away by how poorly made this Ukulele was.

The worst part was the neck. The frets were visibly poorly sanded and there were tons of glue residues on each end of the frets. I'm not talking about a little residue, which can happen, but a lot of it and on each single fret, from the first to the last one. Some glue stains could also be seen on the neck itself in several places. The part of wood after the last fret was so poorly sanded that the surface was not flat, but visibly uneven.

On the Ukulele body there was a darker spot of about 0.5cm, clearly visible from a distance, probably a clear coat or paint defect.

Up close, it looked like a 10€/15€ Ukulele you can find in toy shops.

Finally, the strings were very loosely tensioned (the notes were basically one octave below the correct one) and too much wrapped around the tuning machines, so it was difficult to tune the instrument and keep it in tune. This could have been fixed by changing strings but I didn't, since I immediately sent it back.

In my opinion, such workmanship is completely unacceptable considering that this Ukulele costs more than 100€.