$147 Telecaster Is Killin Your HIGH END FENDER!! Best Quality Control I'VE EVER SEEN!!
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In this video we look at a Telecaster from E-Bay!
I paid for mine and get I nothing to show you this link!
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@@MaxMoon65 It is weird that they can make a better guitar than they can a pair of f**kin' shoes 😂
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Love a channel where the channel owner personally confronts the trolls and clowns...thats the right way!!
My man just casually made that guitar string through the body like he was changing the strings! Wow
Hey Brother. Been with you and your very cool NO BS channel for a while now, and I’m really happy how your channel is growing, it was bound to happen. Wishing you all the best and more success in the coming year.
Cheers.
I appreciate that
That is called "chambfering" (the bit where you're taking off a bit of the finish and preventing breakout), and is a important step in the process of many wood and metalworking projects.
Perhaps a tad deeper than I'd go on the string-thru holes, but damn that's one fine guitar for the $.
❤ From N. Idaho!
I’m seriously liking the ‘welfare gear’ vibe. I’ve been messing with flea market/yard sale guitars for years. Your stuff is always educational, and entertaining as hell. Keep on keeping on!
The sound of the coil split sounded awesome. I didnt expect that!
absolutely beautiful, those upgrades you installed really make it shine!
Btw, this really is a beautiful guitar. Makes you realize how much other major companies overcharge - even if you take it into account that the tuners and electronics would be better from a major brand, they get DEEP discounts on those parts for buying in massive bulk. Imagine Fender doing a Squier like this with branded parts and electronics. Or Epiphone. If a little unknown company can do a gorgeous guitar with beautiful wood for rock bottom prices, clearly . . . well, makes ya think how much the big boys mark up their guitars and WHY that might be. 🤔
I think Sean needs to get a bulk deal with Seymour Duncan, btw. He uses a lot of those bad boys! Would love to see Sean try those Fishman Fluence pickups - it would make for hilarious content watching him try to get it wired up cause I’ve heard they’re super confusing, lol. But I do wonder what he thinks anyway. 😂😂😂
I'm not a Tele-type guy, but I 'm craving that guitar, just for the looks alone.
I feel like selling every single one of my expensive guitars and buying one of these and then going out and earning all of the money to buy all of my expensive guitars back. LOL
Lol ... Same here !!!
Yep
Don’t be stupid.
You would lose money
You people are easily influenced. You will regret that decision.
Beautiful guitar and excellent work!
people dont realise that all the Chinese made guitars these days are all CNC cut at the same row of factories in the same area. they've got it down to a formula. they pump em all out and put the decal of choice from the Western business thats paying them. a pickup change and a rewiring, decent switchcraft parts and you've got a gigging guitar. I've got a $200 J-Bass thats light as a feather and plays beautifully all over the neck. we live in the golden age of "beginner" guitars
Man! you rocked this whole video out, I enjoyed watching you upgrade this, and you got to the point real quick but in a slow manner where I could understand it...after this video I ran across I had to hit that subscribe button...thank you for showing us how to upgrade this guitar....just awesome! Peace to You and all of Yours....Paul from Indy...
Just saw the same guitar listed $105 plus’s $500 shipping 😮
Maybe the ship (a yacht?, mini submarine?) that does the shipping is included too?
I had a Friend back in 1978 and he Bought fender Neck and strat body used pots got his picks New he had a set of good Tuners . And it sounded better than anything Fender custom shop ever did. Back then alot of us pieced our Guitars together .
Awesome page bro just bought a kit off of eBay for a 159 bucks glued it up this weekend. Put all hardware on it got everything right measured scale halfed the scale, With a bridge and saddle, everything came out Great best 150 bucks I ever spent.
I have bought several Cozarts over the years, and still have some of them.
The doublenecks are excellent, but you have to swap out the pickups, and move the tailpieces over a bit, then it's identical to the no longer built Epiphone EDS-1275. terrific necks, mahogany body, well balanced.
That's the set-neck one, but if you can find the original bolt on version, it's a screamer, but it's about 25 lbs of solid maple body. It needs NOTHING, but unless you are built like Wolfgang Van Halen, forget it, it's like having a forklift strapped onto your shoulder.
For the money, it's probably the best thing online. Keep the "good" stuff at home, and take the Cozart to the gig instead.
Never had an issue with shipping, broken/parts falling off, the only real weak spot was the pickups, and that was mainly on the newer doublenecks.
That was 5-6 years ago, I imagine the quality has probably gotten even better by now.
Glad to see a review on these things.
Paulownia is from the Empress tree that grows in Western China. It is basically a boat and furniture wood. Since a Telecaster's tone mostly comes from its pickups and design, it can be built from non-tone woods like Pine and other cheap woods with little loss in tone.
No electric guitar needs "tone wood" whatever that is.
Love the inexpensive guitars and I appreciate your knowledge. Keep up the great work brother !
Sounds great!
Thanks for the video!
You always do a great job!
Hey sport, i am a sinestral, and as such my choices are limited. I have a bucket list to play the greatest song ever on my 70th birthday, so i bought a Cozart cherry double neck, (not white in case some dropkicks get the song confused), and it is Great! had my luthier mate go over it, he did a bit of fret levelling, and a full set up. I changed both sets of pups to Bryan Williams double neck MSG 73's (these absolutely get the original "hollow chirp"!) put CTS 500k pots, emerson .22k PIO's, rewired the whole thing with switchcraft switches, (one a 4 / 2 switch) and turned the 3rd switch into an A ,B or AB output to a stereo jack, so using a Y cable you can run each neck to a different amp. This guitar is bloody fantastic! Needs a new nut on each neck, and i will change out the tuners, the stock are reasonable. The 12 string neck is the same width as the 6, which takes some getting used to, but for the price, i think around $300 it is definitely a winner! Cozart do a pretty good job, a great modding platform. Oh, forgot to mention i sheilded everywhere with copper tape sheilding. Looking at the 12 string Tele, rout out for p90's!
I picked up a Squire Telecaster for 182.00 (White/Dark Wood fingerboard) The fingerboard looks exactly like old very dark rosewood but it can't be, I do not know what it is. It is super light, I believe Basswood body. The neck is awesome! it is straight, slight adjustments to truss and string height, swapped the bridge, got all new pickups/controls/jack from USA Fender parts and I love it, It is a great guitar. I also have an 62 Telecaster Custom (AVRI from 2007) which is nice too but that cost 2K. I love my 182 dollar Squire Telecaster.
Squier is total shit when compared to what Harley Benton does. I'm buying guitars from one guy who is getting B-Stocks from Thomann and then fixes them and sets them up.
What I can buy from him for 180 euros it costs 600-700 euros at Fender or Gibson, literally and without any exaggeration.
That's because Thomann is selling their own guitars, Harley Benton is their own brand, there are no resellers and middle man who are taking their own cut to make money and on top of that there's increasing of the price by using a brand name to jack up the prices in artificial way.
For example, at what price range Fender Squier gives you a guitar with locking tuners, stainless steel frets and graphite nut? Just those 3 things, as an example?
I'm getting that level of quality for 170-180 euros. But, I'm from Europe.
To give you example:
I went to a store and noticed Squier Telecaster Cabronita Baritone guitar, it costs 487 euros at the official reseller. That's how much it costs here, in USA the price is probably different.
Now, Harley Benton MR Modern Baritone costs at Thomann 307 euros and it would cost me 340 euros if I order it, the shipment would be around 35 euros.
B-stock at the guy I'm buying from with only tiny, little almost unnoticeable scratched back (which someone returned because it was probably damaged during transportation),
costs 170 euros and with set up action, fully functional, brand new, with only 5mm scratched back, a fucking speck on the back.
If you look at the specs HB guitar is better and I'm buying it for 3 FUCKING TIMES less money. I can literally buy 3 HB Mosrites: classic, modern and baritone and go home and someone will buy Squier Telecaster Cabronita Baritone for the same amount of money.
Do you know how much I paid for Harley Benton TE-53KR (KR stands for Keith Richards)? 180 euros.
Fender Squier would sell you that same guitar for 400-450 euros.
I bought Harley Benton HB-35 Plus for 150 euros.
Basses? Same shit. Fender Squier is now making Sonic series (same with guitars) which replaces god fucking awful Bullet series which was a total TRASH.
Their TRASH Sonic series of bases cost 160 euros.
I literally bought 2 HB bases which are 3 TIMES BETTER in terms of quality and each costed me 170 euros.
Fender, Gibson, can literally fuck off. People were being ripped off for years and that's coming to an end.
Of course, I'm buying essentially 2nd hand stuff, because those are B-stocks, but those are all brand new guitars because someone bought them new and there was some speck on the back of a guitar and they returned them to get a new one, but the thing is even if you go to buy some 350 euros Harley Benton guitar, Fender and Gibson would sell you that same quality for 500-600 euros.
I like seeing the work and improved quality of what you work on man!! Awesome!!!
Awesome! Thank you!
Thanks for the demo Bro, just bought the last one! and I've been building guitars for ages! This one is a test unit! Luv Tele's too!@@scarmyguitar
Hey Sean-just checked out your channel for the first time yesterday and subbed. I must say that's a pretty nice Tele copy that you put together with the mods. Congrats on selling it, I wasn't even looking for it, was just scoping out the Cozarts on ebay. I was semi-interested in it but it would've been nice to hear how it did with a real clean tone too. It did sound great with the semi-dirt on it thought, very Stonesy.
Glad I found this vid!I bought this guitar about 2 mths ago!Fantastic neck!Wanted to do string thru,saw how you did it>Helped me see the best way to do it,thanks!!!Cathy's pickups sound great too!!!
OMG that is a beautiful tele. The white fretboard looks a lot better than I would've thought.
This is a real beauty man. What a great Tele sound. Nothing beats it. Great job!
This thing looks great, I was actually eyeballing that one on ebay, but the same seller also had a tele in gold and black with the traditional 3 saddle bridge so I got that one instead for $125. All I did was entonate it, change the strings and file down the fret ends a little, otherwise that tele sounds great!
Great style and delivery! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
Great video and upgrades. I have a Cozart 12-string tele thin line that I am pretty impressed with.
I got a Squire Affinity Tele for $167... limited edition, it had real Fender USA pickups in it.
That thang sounds awesome now. Maybe I'll drill mine for string through too.
I love my Cozart telecaster, surprisingly excellent! Straight out the box
you know I bought the gold sparkle Cozart tele and changed the pups, wiring, tuners and nut and damn, if that thing doesn't sing now. It plays and sounds as good as some of my Fenders. and it was only $120 off ebay. lol it's so damn light too.
I really want a Humbucker bridge for a Tele. I can find a Tele at Marlers with a Medium C Tele neck. That is COZART? If I can find one with a Humbucker rout, I could buy a Seymour Duncan and a Tele bridge. I don’t want to mess with my (50s) Fender. But the SD Humbucker and string through just made it the best Tele I’ve ever heard. I mean it. It sounds so good.
Wow, good work man. Looks awesome stock, but needed some work indeed. Now it sounds awesome!
That telly looks lovely!
Just found your channel and I love it!
It's nice that your drill press is big enough to drill those holes. I did a string thru build and had to drill by hand. The body wouldn't fit my drill press. I was lucky and the holes turned out decent.👍😎🎸🎶
I bought a Cozart double beck about 5 years ago and I had them same reaction, built very well, I replaced the hardware and pickups but aside from that I was impressed, the wiring harness was also built very well
Amazing projection out of the box is always the best start.
Yes!!! I love your videos, always entertaining 😎
If you use a third bit of the right size and go down about 1mm you can make those ferrules on the back flush.
Excellent video, really enjoyed watching what you did. Love your channel.
FYI - I have a US made Fender Strat and G+L ASAT but a couple years ago picked up a Squier CV Butterscotch Tele. Love the guitar and upgraded ALL the electronics EXCEPT the pups. CRL switch, CTS pots, cloth pushback wire and Switchcraft jack. This is my number one now. I certainly can't think I would spend over a $1K more to get a US made one.
I found that just those items made a great deal of difference in the tone of my guitar. So much so that I haven't found the desire to buy a new pup. BUT, I found a cheap, brand new Fender 4-way switch so that will be my next upgrade.
Thank you for the enjoyable and informative video!
A little tip for the tape mark; Use a skinny strip of tape and wrap it around the bit where it comes together on the other side, forming something akin to a flag. Then, when you drill, it will blow the saw dust away. Maybe not quite at that speed, but perhaps a little. Anywho... Sweet guitar, man. Great stuff!
It's got some nice bark and twang out of those pick ups. Outstanding job ❤
I've had my eye on Cozart's instruments for a few years now. I've never committed, though, because none of the trustworthy channels ever mentioned the brand. Well done, dude.
I've owned over 75 electric guitars over a 50+ year period, from Gibson's to vintage Fender's to Steinberger's and all points in between. As much as I hate to admit it, some of the guitars coming out of China now are killer guitars at give away prices. The Eart brand strats and tele's are great - roasted maple necks, compound radius fretboards, perfectly dressed stainless frets, even decent pickups and tuners all for around $400. I now own three - a strat style, a tele, and a semi-hollow tele custom version. I play them more than any of my other guitars, which is kind of depressing in a way. US manufacturers should be worried although there will always be guys that care about the name and are willing to pay an extra $3-4K for it. I work too hard for that. Sterling is making killer guitars too.
I ain't a tele fan, but that's a sharp looking axe and you made it sound awesome, brotha
Dude, I like your style and what you have to say - fun channel and cool video. Subbed.
Awesome! Thank you!
the drilled hole under the neck pocket is used in the painting process used to hang the guitar while painting!!!!
I ordered the Cozart firebird copy. The neck was warped not truss rod adjustments could fix it I hat to replace the neck. the pickups were not potted to it was very microphonic. I played it for a while and got really tired of it. I ended up selling it. It was probably the worst guitar I ever bought. Glad you got a descent one.
I love tele’s!!!! Had one, had to sell it to pay bills …worst day ever as it was the best guitar I ever had…. Good stuff my man!!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘
nice work bro - beautiful guitar
Nice work on the string thru !
Seymour Duncan Pickups are about $100 a pop, and he put $150 -200 of labor into it. $150 guitar turned into $300-400.
Great review and upgrades!
Thanks for this fine Review and I will follow for more🤘😁
Glad to find you. Subscribed… impressive video , thanks for posting this. I love mods .
Awesome, thank you!
Another entertaining and informative video, really enjoy and appreciate your channel. Quick question, so you added the coil split push pull with the new pickup or was already split?
added
@@scarmyguitar I would love to see you cover how you did / do that in an upcoming video. Thanks!
You have hands of Gold i could have used your skills a few times
I bought the 12 string sunburst tele about 5 years ago, and its great.
I changed the knobs to Gibson Barrel style, snd maybe the volume pot cos it was scratchy, but thats it.
It stays in tune, plays GREAT, and it looks nice.
Wood has been stable too.
I have plenty of high end guitars.
You cant beat em for the price, and im sure its pretty cool to be building guitars in southeast Asia compared to other stuff.
For a beginner, you cant beat it, and you can ALWAYS get the money back on re sale.
You can mod them, learn luthiery, and id gig on them.
Its not a big deal if someone steals it.
Its a win win.
I have this same guitar. I got it from Ebay about 7 years ago. it looks nice and is light. The neck is awesome. The only complaint I have is the clear coat cracked about 5 minutes after I tuned it up the first time.
You ROCK Bro! awesome guitar!
That mystery metal you were talking about on the rear pickup? It's pure Chinesium! It's what you get when you take all the scrap metal laying around (who cares what it is!), heat up a container to a high temp, and toss it all in and give it a stir! As long as it melts, it's in there! Steel, aluminum, brass, zinc...it's in there!
It looks really nice and too love the binding. That's one of the cosmetic reasons that I like Gibson's more than Fender's, because you rarely see binding on a Fender.
Besides new tuners, one of the first things I would mod, would be the pickups. I'd like to have a coil splitter for the humbucker bridge position.
I noticed that the string ferrules are not flush mounted. I'm sure that it's the proper method but it seems like it would be better flush mounted ??? Just asking, not trying to find fault.
It’s damn near impossible to beat a Duncan JB for tone. Nice job installing those string through ferrules.
I like the string action very low, just above frets. Will give this model a try.
Tele is my favorite and you made it sound great
Nice 👍😊. My roommate a few years ago had one if i remember right. He liked it. 🎸🎸
My top loaded HB tele had partially drilled holes in the body, so I finished the job to make it a string thru.
Thanks for the review, I've looked at a couple different Cozart models that looked great. I just wasn't sure of quality. Would be great for modding.
Absolutely freaking gorgeous! I've been saying I'll never buy another guitar, but thats tempting!👍😎🎸🎶
Out of stock already!
Once you review and upgrade, they go fast!
Love your channel!
You need to design a flip-flaper peddle. Love your videos, always gives me a laugh or two. Merry Christmas. PS, very good video!
Thanks, you too!
I like the body wood. They got a standard tele without the cap that looks really nice.
Beautiful top. You must've gotten the last one.🥰
They have another line called "King". I have one that is a copy of a 67 smugglers cavity. I did some upgrades to it, but I have people that thought it was a fender. Mine is super heavy just like the real one. I'll never get rid of it.
Picked up a couple of the Strat style based on this recommendation. One sixxer, and one twelve string. I'll do similar mods and see how they hold up. I'll probably upgrade all electronics along with tuners and STILL be under $400 for each guitar, and that's a steal if they live up to this review. If not, I'm sure I can at least get my money back based on the upgrades. Thanks for the heads up.
Sure glad I didn’t miss ur day at work 🎉🎉
That's about right, you show me that guitar a day after I ordered one of those censtar lp like that green one you had. LOL If I like it I might put a phase reversal switch on it. Anyways the tele looks sweet, It would have looked killer with no veneer. No promises but I'll try to keep my eyelids open long enough to catch your show tonight.👍👍🤘✌️
Looks beautiful
I’ve seen the Cozart guitars for a long time on eBay. They make a bunch of different styles and are all super affordable. This one looks really nice.
D'ADARIO strings too, saw them colored balls lol. I hope you have Ms. Cathy wind you a neck pickup for it too.
That guitar looks pretty good compared to the Cozart double-cut Tele I bought a few years back... It was FRICKIN' DISASTER. I had to reposition the bridge because it was crooked and off-center. I also had to re-rout the pickup cavity (which was the reason why the bridge plate was off) and plug and re-drill the string-through holes. The control cavity also had to be re-routed in order to fit full-size CTS pots in there. The neck was a nightmare. Wonky frets all up and down the fretboard, and they had "rolled" the fretboard edges by running a screwdriver up and down the neck (AFTER the frets had been installed). I just ditched the neck completely and replaced it with an Allparts neck.
Surprisingly, the body actually had a trans-white nitro finish (on a heavy, multi-piece Ash body), but it was the sloppiest finish I'd ever seen. Sags and runs all over the place. I considered refinishing the body, but decided to just sand and buff out the more heinous runs.
Of course, the pickups (and the hardware) were trash. I put a set of Custom Shop '51 NoCasters in it, and Wilkinson tuners. In the end, it was a decent guitar, but man, it needed a LOT of work.
A friend of mine bought the same guitar at the same time I did, and I had to fix his up as well. So it wasn't that I just got a bad one. His guitar had all the same issues that mine did.
At the time, I thought: "Meh... what can you expect for $120?", but I think I would have been better off buying a Squier Bullet Tele for $99. Except the only reason I bought the Cozart was because it was a double-cut, and you couldn't get that body type without dropping $1,600 on the Limited Edition Fender that was out at the time (or having one custom made).
I bought a Cozart tele a couple of years back. The gold metal flake one. I put Seymour Duncan Hot Tele pickup, new tuner, new nut, dressed the frets and damn!
You know , not everybody has the skills and/or tools to do that. So if you bring it to a guitar luthier ( is that the right name ? ) you have to pay mucho dinoro's for those adjusments.
All by all you could buy yourself , for the totall amount of money that you have spend now on this guitar , a better guitar which doesn't need the job that is needed to sound and intonate good.
The Telecasters from Mexico are a good example ; real good affordable Tele's.
And I envy those guys who have the tools and skills to do a job like in this video.
I got a cozart natural double neck sg and the cozart hendrix strat,awesome
I am amazed and floored! What kind of brand is this? I mean, I've never heard or read about "Cozart".
fine job sean lovin your channel
Got a squire strat and tele plus a usa benson 335 from a thrift store, all for £50 - unbelievable quality for pennies!
Enjoy your Stuff,that tele looks great, its a pity i cant get one in the UK.
I couldn't originally get a Fazley Telecaster BUT I was persistent and paid a bit for shipping but I have one here in Canada)probably the only or one of few lol) and love it
You can ,there 's one in reverb now but by the time you pay the £85 to ship it from the States you're paying more than double the price of this one and it's used [mint]
The code to making great but affordable guitars was cracked a while ago, I am beyond happy with my World Music ( Korean) made guitars PRS SE line, LTD, Agile Les Paul killer and many others. 4 x the price of this one though. This looks like a fantastic value . I’ve been looking for “tele” to add to the harem. I am all about mods and pick up swaps !
I bought a cheap Glary Strat copy. I bought it to see how much I could improve the tone and its playability. Parts of the mods I did was to swap the thin tone block out for a nice beefy brass block. I don’t use tremolos so there was no problem there. But it was poorly made from the start. The strings wouldn’t come out of the original block when I started tearing it down, then, the bridge/ Tremolo screws were drilled unevenly, so I p,urged them with toothpicks and tight bond and redrilled them. My friend bought a Tele from them and his has no problems. So I think it’s a crapshoot when buying a cheap guitar,,
Have bought and built many tele & strat not sure if that much gained by traditional backload vs topload bridge. Even tried the $$$ Glendale ferrules. Leaning to it being like the tonewood bull. Would have liked an A B electric sound pre & post upgraded otherwise nice video.Just my opinion.
Nice guitar and sound clean..👍
Great video. How was the packing on this guitar?
Better than fender
Proceeds to take the neck off. Changes the pickups, drills new holes in every part of the guitar, adds new hardware. K man...
looks really nice
I've got one, but it has a dark brown cap on the body. I have several Cozart guitars. My last one, a reverse headstock Strat is killer.