THE BEST GUITAR DEAL ON AMAZON?? Fojill Relic Telecaster REVIEW!
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- UPDATE 5/15/24: Well, the day after this vid went up this guitar was sold out (I’d love to take credit but likely just coincidence). I don’t know if this will help, but maybe if people are adding this to their Amazon lists, Fojill will restock. As a reminder, not sponsored in any way. I get no $ from Amazon or Fojill, just trying to pass along good finds: a.co/d/1yl7d6W
Hey friends! I'm back (sorta...for a bit..hehe) with a review of what I consider a great deal for anyone looking for a relic T-style geetar without breaking the piggybank. Here I play and review this thing COMPLETELY stock...right out of the box. Then asses what it needs, give it some love and see what we get. While I'm at it, let's compare it to a MUCH more expensive T with Lollars..ya know...just for kicks.
00:00 Intro
00:40 PLAYING the stock guitar with unboxing
02:11 Why I bought this one
02:52 Stage One! Totally stock setup run through.
04:20 Tip to Toe. Running down the specs.
07:51 PLAYING stock guitar with stage one setup
08:17 Stage One assessment. What this thing is and what it needs.
10:41 Stage Two (cheesy music via Suno) work tape. Full tear down, setup, and re-assemble.
12:33 Quick word re: fret work
12:51 Back to work (even worse “song” via Suno)
13:50 PLAYING after Stage Two work. I lost my voice, so… you’ll have to read some stuff for the info
14:17 Mini VS. Video…Sound comparison of the Fojill and a Blevins T with Lollar ‘52 pickups.
16:00 PLAYING Oodles of noodles with a few final thoughts.
Hi, My name is Gary, I'm 72 and semi-retired from gigging. Now I like to build/mod/restore guitars in my small home shop. I agree with your price for work. My prices are also influenced by attitude and ability to pay. LOL I also take parts removed, trade in's, exceptional deals, make them easily playable and donate them to "guitars for vets". This one looks like a candidate for that! All of these sub $200 guitars are a lot better than what we had to work with in the late 60's!! The "Sire" brand are as good as the Gibsons and Fenders of the 70's, at $600!! First time here, I enjoyed your video! Good luck with everything!! Peace, --gary
Okay...I have to say, showing the unboxing while you're playing is genius. Speedy recovery.
First, I am praying for you, for a full recovery, and that you receive the peace and growth that God intends for this season. Second, how do you only have 7.39k subscribers??? Did you just start? I enjoy you and your channel very much. Very fun to watch and informative. And your playing is amazing. Thank you!
He isn't a "youtuber" per se, this is like a hobby I think? He plays in a band, is the lead vocalist besides playing killa guitar, I love his funk!
Prayers for you my brother. ❤
The guitar sounds amazing and your playing is awesome! I wish that you recover from your battle soon, you are a fighter and an inspiration for all of us..
It was a very good idea to put the unboxing down in the corner, while doing the demo, and unboxing by itself is dreadfully boring.
Yea I agree with ya
Very informative video. I love that you get right on with the info. Keep up the good fight you will overcome!
Great demo and review! Your playing is very versatile. Thanks!
Thanks not only for the review, but I found some strength I needed. About to hit 50 and my health feels the worst it’s been. Had surgery and still not feeling right. Was a bit low in spirit, but your willingness to fight lifted me up. I appreciate you.
Was considering to stop gigging soon, but I’ll rethink that.
Great video man! Loving your work and playing.
Wishing you peace and good health! xx
Thanks for the review.
Wishing you a speedy recovery too
Really well organized, edited, and presented.
👍👍
Every note you play sounds so melodic. You’ve got great chops!!! Thanks for the review. God bless and stay healthy!
You play very well and that may be what is impressing me but the guitar sounds frigging great. For the price of dinner for 3 I thought I would give it a try. I could always just have it tuned in DADGAD and keep my other tele as is. If I really like it I can put a set of Twang Kings and a 4 way switch in it like my other tele. Gotta love the tele, so simple and pure. No floating bridge BS I have 2 strats that gather dust along with the Reverends and Gibsons. All I play is the Tele and the PRS DGT these days. Its enough. Best luck on your health situation from another sufferer of different chronic debilitating health conditions that have one eventual result. Music is one of the one thing that can still elevate my spirit these days.Not much else holds value to me other than family.
Praying for you to get healed and to get well soon. Awesome demo and review of this guitar
May you heal quickly and completely. Cool guitar find and great playing!
Just stumbled upon your channel and I love it! So well done! Very impressed with your production and how you obviously have the viewer in mind-lots of folks don’t. Really enjoyed your playing and commentary. Wow!
Ill say a prayer for you friend. You real have a great tone and feel. That sounded amazing.
Great video, excellent value, love the tele. Very best to you for a full recovery. Serious chops man, you make that guitar sound wonderful.
Hey Brother. Empathy for your struggles and your great heart. Thank You for this great video and the time/effort it took. Best Regards and Best Wishes!
Fantastic video, love the way you present, and that guitar certainly punches above its weight! Best of luck with your treatment, I hope it all goes well.
Prayers to you sir. You are strong. Never forget that.
Praying for a quick recovery brother
Great playing and analysis. Fun project! I hope all goes well with your health struggles and praying for a total cure for you.
Great Sound! Best wishes for you!!!
Just found your channel bro, good luck mate, big love from Somerset England (where they talk like pirates!), cheers man, stay strong
Great review, best wishes to you.
Hi, your vid popped upon my feed and being interested in t style guitars clicked to watch it.
Really wanted to wish you all the best in your battle with your health.
Best wishes from the UK, Mark
Thanks for the rundown.
I hope you are better soon.
Peace
Thank you for your response...
Much appreciated.
Be well.
First time I’ve come across your channel and wow! Incredible review and video - thank you! Keep it up and I hope your treatment is going well 🙏🏻
Positive thoughts headed your way from my dog (she beat cancer) and me :) Very nice playing, which is appreciated when someone is reviewing a guitar (of any price). No T-style guitars listed on Amazon. Hopefully that's a temporary issue, cuz I'd like to snag one of these.
Those stock pups don't sound bad. The Lollars have more going on as you'd expect, but for $160 those pups sound pretty decent. Teles are so much fun!
Out of the box, your guitar is set up exactly where I set mine, 1.75 in the low E, and between 1.5 and 1.75 on the high E. From what I've seen on UA-cam, that guitar company seems to have its stuff together.
Dude night guitar , your playing is the icing on the cake!
Great video!
Great to hear from you again.enjoy your videos 📸 God bless you
Great vid. Good luck with the treatment bro
Great playing!
This is awesome! Thanks man. Praying for you as well
Great video, hope you’re feeling well Sir. After watching this video bought one of these on Amazon. Arrives Wednesday, and looking forward to modifying it.
Respect to you and playing that damn good. Be well.
Great Demonstration and commentary. If I was in the market for another electric, I wouldn't hesitate to buy this. What a value! Good Luck to you with your health concerns--Sincerely.
Awesome review. A good setup and some minor work goes a long way especially if you’re not a pro like yourself.. most couch pickers would do well with one of these.. Thanks for posting!!
Great video. I may have to go pick one up. As a fellow brother in treatment (multiple myeloma for me) I wish you all the best!
Great shakedown!
Once again proving a good amp setup can make a $4 git sound marvelous. Heal up - we need more sweet sounds from ya.
Awesome chops!!
Damn! I’m a sucker for another tele, and I really like the sound of those pickups. More than the Loller. A little darker and warmer, but still has spank. Great playing . Speedy recovery ❤️🩹
Well done demo of an interesting Tele guitar. I see they've already raised the price to $200, but still a good deal I'd say. Nice that the neck pup rout can fit a p90 or humbucker, that's clever! I like what I can see of the relicing, it looks pretty realistic. What kind of paint? Nitro by any chance?
Excellent playing as well; I can tell you've been at it for a lifetime! Speaking of which, best wishes for your recovery. I've been dealing with some potentially terminal health issues myself; not fun at all... If I wasn't already at the point of already liquidating most of my stable, I might get one of these as a modding platform; although I think that I've done all the mods that I'd ever want/need to do. (Though that could just be the illness talking...) My favorite mod I've done is my 27" baritone Coodercaster 'hog TL with a 50s Rickenbacker horseshoe magnet pickup at the bridge and a 60s Teisco goldfoil at the neck. I've never played a Tele that sounds quite so good!
Prayers for you, Sir. Last year I had a cancer bout myself. I caught it early Stage 1 and it was cut out and I am thankful every day. That guitar is not available on Amazon anymore. Great playing.
Amazing player !! Probably makes anything sound great!
Love it I have a fojill strat . Good luck with the treatment
very impressive!
Great video! I wish you the best with your health
So it looks like it could use a better three way switch, and definitely CTS or Bourns pots. Those look like the mini pots, but couldn't tell for sure. If so, I'd replace them. I know that the smaller pots are probably fine, as long as the quality is there, but there's a psychological element. Hope your treatment is successful. I have a good friend who was given her cancer diagnosis and six months to live back in 2015. She opted to go the unconventional route and did a lot of research, found some promising if unconventional treatments. She's still alive and doing well to this day. It's her opinion that if she'd gone with the chemo, she wouldn't be here today. Make of that what you will, but if nothing else, take it to say cancer is *not* a death sentence. I wish you the best.
Rog, bother, you are a serious inspiration! And you made that guitar sound like a million bucks!! Wow!! But I'm still going to pester you for a lefty Blevin's one of these days!! God bless you dearly my good man!!
Siick playing man! Sounds crazy for the price
I like how you just did that shoe damn good job
Great video. I actually enjoy the warm neck pickup.
The neck pickup is noticeably darker than the Lollar's but it doesn't sound bad to me. Looking forward to part 3. Nice playing!
Outstanding review, nice to know that "butter smooth" playing guitar available for 160$.
Incredible sound! What amp are you using in your demos? Love that sound.
Amazing work. May God carry you during your journey. 😎🙏🏿
Thanks!
I feel weird buying Chinese guitars but being retired I can’t really afford the Fenders and Gibsons for now so Fojill is a decent replacement. All the best to you and your health. Enjoy your channel.
hope you get well soon brother!
nice tele by the way!
have you heard of tease brand guitars? right now theyre making "S" and "T" style guitars....im hoping to talk torsten jacob(owner of tease guitars)to consider the LP special style wth bolt on neck...
humbucker models and p90 models...i bet theyll sell!
amazing mate..eminds me of my harley benton te 62 db..minimum adjustments and sound like one of the best tele i've owned for 40 years
I echo that. I have the Harley Benton TA52NA and after some mod.'s ( guitar cost just £105 - mod.'s cost around £120 ) and a set up, it plays and sounds like a £1000 Tele. 🙏
Absolutely! Love me some HB!
Got a lefty TE 62DB last week...Roswells are decent, the guitar is AMAZING....(same on my TE-52)...but you can do MUCH better with 'better' pups....Fralin or Lollars or McNelly's...others too. Pups make a world of difference. I also remove tone pot from neck...add brass saddles...love my budget Teles (CV's, HB) as much as my higher end ones...Mex, Japan, USA (G&L, LSL TBone , Pro 2, and even a Custom Shop). Get some....
Man you are awesome ❤ awesome beautiful playing 🎸 ❤ 🔥 🔥 🔥
Kickass!
The zon abt to be sold out of this baby. Wishing you good health and happiness. ❤
nice guitar, great playing, excellent breakdown. i do a lot of what you do with import guitars. i find the donners to be good modding platforms. be well.
Interesting that the intonation sounds spot on, usually these 3 saddles tele bridges can have some bad intonation issues, not the case here.
Wow, great playing.... I think you could make any guitar sound good !!
Guitar sounds awesome. !!!
I purchased the same Relic Telecaster guitar from Censtar and it feels fine to me, can you test the Censtar guitars? I would like to know the difference between the Censtar Relic Telecaster and the Fojill Relic Telecaster!
Great video! Had a question. Do you think that the length of the neck and type of wood, makes a difference in the tone of the guitar? Thanks.
I bought a Slick tele (Guitar Fetish) (reliced) looks almost exactly like this one and sounds just like it - awesome deal
They have good quality but I didn’t like the aesthetics of the Strat model. What would you say the weight is and size of frets? I need bigger frets and these look substantial.
Great review and playing. The finish is strange though- looks like a photograph some how.
Unforgiven for the Stock Strings.:) A Contored Mahogony Body and roasted neck w/ SS Smoth Fret ends. --- $160.-- yup unreal . I would put a Guitar Fetish p90 in the neck and a Generic Hotrail in the bridge .
You play well good job
I feel like the fancy Tele may sound better only because its output is louder. I can see them being indistinguishable with better pickups swapped in.
Nice
Awesome guitar, out of stock when I checked yesterday, darn.
I have the Strat version, light relic mahogany body and I LOVE it. The radius of the neck is super flat, which takes some getting used to. Also, the electronics were the same cheap garbage that comes in all budget Strats, so I put together a loaded pickguard with alnico v pickups and a wiring harness with big 500k pots and thick braided wires. I'm not exaggerating when I say it's nearly as good as my MIM Fender Strat. I paid $120 for the guitar on eBay and probably like $80 on upgrades.
great review, The Lollar tele did have a maple fretboard so I guess thats going to make it a tad brighter, having said that the Fojill had quite a nice mellower tone that I felt was very useable as is. I guess if you're buying a similar style guitar in this case a tele you really dont want to have 2 guitars that sound the same.....there is no point in that so I think the Fojill offers another sound palette there.
I'm curious. Do you prefer this or the Slick?
Nice playing! That guitar sounds just fine to me, liked it better than the expensive one with Lollars, and if it plays as good as it sounds, use the money saved for something else.
Smart to leave it sit for 24 hours. Most people overlook this. Shipping and temperature fluctuations can really effect a guitar.
Im fortunate to own and couple of vintage Fender Teles and a Squire 40th anniversary Tele.
On youtube, the 40th anniversary has been given, by all the channels who basically cut and paste each others revenues, criticism for its neck pick up, muddy they all say, i think its sounds Vintage.
To my ears the Fojlll neck pup sounds very vintage 50s
Where as the Blevins neck pup, in my opinion, is too bright. So my points go to the Fojlll here.
To keep things budget i might swop out neck for a Squire maple.
Great review, sweet playing. First time here, subbed.👍🏼
Do you have string buzz at 1.5mm on the low E? I can’t get it that low without buzzes, even after a level and crown
How much relief?
If I wanted to replace that bridge with a modern 6 saddle bridge, what are my options?
I’m gonna guess that the four screw bridge on this is “import” size/spacing. Can’t say for certain but likely anything that’ll fit an import Fender. Guyker has a relic’d bridge for $20 and I’ll likely swap that out next week (with some Wilkinson saddles)…I’ll try to respond here if it fits and with spacing.
I think I would pay $170 for the body alone, love the P90/Humbucker route in the neck
Hey nice review! Do you have the link to the guitar? I can't seem to find it on Amazon.
Afraid they sold out the day after this vid went up (I’d love to take credit but I’m sure it was coincidental). Hopefully they’ll restock soon.
Not a lot of difference Lollars and ceramicsI MHO at 77 with hearing aids in place! Thanks for the video. Bon courage.
Amp? Or modeler?
Yeah, the Lollar’s are hotter, sharper, wider in dynamic range. But a bit of boost and eq’ing would get the budget p/ups sounding close.
I would have loved a measurement of the neck heal while it was disassembled. Any idea if it’s 2 3/16 like Fender?
I’d guess it’s fender spec but can’t say 100%. When I do my mods I’ll def get that as well as nut width etc. and include it in that vid.
@@MusicNerdStuff that would be amazing! Thanks brother. Great video!
Best of luck u are in my prayers..Jesus can save us all..great playing..great tone on foxill...wow.God bless
The ceramic pickups sound remarkably close to the Lollers, but the Fojill seems to either have a little less sustain or else the pickups are a little more biting? Either way, it sounds like an extraordinary guitar for under $20. As always, you're playing is smoooooth
You mean under 200? Too bad it's unavailable 😪
Honestly I don’t think a pickup upgrade is worth it on this guitar cuz they sound good as is.