$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!
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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
absolutely beautiful, those upgrades you installed really make it shine!
My man just casually made that guitar string through the body like he was changing the strings! Wow
The sound of the coil split sounded awesome. I didnt expect that!
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!
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
Yep
Don’t be stupid.
You would lose money
You people are easily influenced. You will regret that decision.
Love the video
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!
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...
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.
OMG that is a beautiful tele. The white fretboard looks a lot better than I would've thought.
I'm not a Tele-type guy, but I 'm craving that guitar, just for the looks alone.
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
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 .
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. 😂😂😂
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!
Love the inexpensive guitars and I appreciate your knowledge. Keep up the great work brother !
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.
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.👍😎🎸🎶
This is a real beauty man. What a great Tele sound. Nothing beats it. Great job!
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!!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘
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
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.
Beautiful guitar and excellent work!
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
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!
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.
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]
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!!!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
If you use a third bit of the right size and go down about 1mm you can make those ferrules on the back flush.
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 ain't a tele fan, but that's a sharp looking axe and you made it sound awesome, brotha
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.
Bass player here. That’s the same pickup setup as a Squire 51. I bought one in the 00’s for $60 from guitar center. My Squire sounds great, but the frets need some loving…
Wow, good work man. Looks awesome stock, but needed some work indeed. Now it sounds awesome!
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!
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.
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!
What is the radius of the neck? Would you say the frets are medium jumbo? I have a strat with that polowania wood body, and honestly it is the most resonate guitar I have! Thanks for the dive!
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.
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?
Impressive work on the Cozart 'Tele'. In short, the sound *IS* spot-on Tele. Jumbo Kudos to you! *:-)*
*BTW:* I noticed your Fender FM212R in the background. I have a 2008 model myself that I loaded with one WGS ET65, and one WGS Retro 30 ... Loudest combo I have ever heard in my life with phenomenal tonal flexibility and headroom thanks to the WGS Speakers. Put the same into my Carvin 4x12 Cab driven by its Carvin MTS3200H as well.
Thanks for the tips!
Good job with your video's. What state are you in?
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.
Seymour Duncan Pickups are about $100 a pop, and he put $150 -200 of labor into it. $150 guitar turned into $300-400.
Great video and upgrades. I have a Cozart 12-string tele thin line that I am pretty impressed with.
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.
That telly looks lovely!
It’s damn near impossible to beat a Duncan JB for tone. Nice job installing those string through ferrules.
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
the drilled hole under the neck pocket is used in the painting process used to hang the guitar while painting!!!!
D'ADARIO strings too, saw them colored balls lol. I hope you have Ms. Cathy wind you a neck pickup for it too.
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!
It's got some nice bark and twang out of those pick ups. Outstanding job ❤
Dude, I like your style and what you have to say - fun channel and cool video. Subbed.
Awesome! Thank you!
I had a Cozart Trini Lopez/Dave Grohl style hollowbody (only sold it because I got the Epi DG), and it too had awesome fit and finish, a helluva guitar for the money.
Just found your channel and I love it!
I love your vids, but why not use your drill press to do the string ferrule holes on the back? They turn out perfect every time.
I did use the drill press. 🤣🤣🤣Ya gotta stop skipping around in the video and then making comments.
You have hands of Gold i could have used your skills a few times
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.👍👍🤘✌️
Sounds great!
Thanks for the video!
You always do a great job!
Man this is just weird I bought a Glarry hollow body telly for $129 about 6 months ago and today I took those stupid brass tubular Saddles off went out in the old building and found me some old Chinese strat saddles like those and put them on intonated it way better I just did this a few hours ago do you ever feel like your phone is spying on you
Absolutely freaking gorgeous! I've been saying I'll never buy another guitar, but thats tempting!👍😎🎸🎶
Great style and delivery! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
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.
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.
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 like the body wood. They got a standard tele without the cap that looks really nice.
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...
More cheap and affordable guitars need to have nice veneers. It adds some class. One of the prettiest telecasters I’ve seen reviewed.
Great video. How was the packing on this guitar?
I got to tell you Shaun I bought one of those couple of years ago spent 99 bucks a beautiful green flame veneer top HH set up string through and that thing just plays and sound amazing. It’s one of my main guitars. I don’t give a shit what it says on the headstock that guitar is awesome, the headstock is just a little different
That looks nice. Too nice for $147 but manufacturing methods have improved. If the components are ok and the wood doesnt warp it will be a winner
My top loaded HB tele had partially drilled holes in the body, so I finished the job to make it a string thru.
Amazing projection out of the box is always the best start.
Hear the difference with new Seymour Duncan.
New to your channel and have a question: Do you keep these guitars, or do you put it up for sale? Thanks.
What would you charge for a Cozart after you put the TLC on it? Very impressed!
Sure glad I didn’t miss ur day at work 🎉🎉
Nice 👍😊. My roommate a few years ago had one if i remember right. He liked 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.
Out of stock already!
Once you review and upgrade, they go fast!
Love your channel!
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.
I can't find that guitar on ebay where did you get it from I want one seriously where did you get it
He has the link in the description
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.
Glad to find you. Subscribed… impressive video , thanks for posting this. I love mods .
Awesome, thank you!
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 !
Hey there, so I up'n bought one and it's pretty good. Some new strings intonation...but why all the drill'n? does it change the tone in some way? or are you just go'n semi full Fender? I don't know how they do it, even with cheap labor, what with shipping and even a cheap case, strap...and just try get'n a finish like that on your first try. It's Heck of light too. Neck is thin and easy to play. Crazy cheap. So what about the drill'n?
^^^
I owned a brand new 1977 CBS Era Fender Telecaster (USA) for 23+ years, until almost 2001
The drilling & "ferrules" he put in allow it to be "strung thru the body" as my Olympic White Ash one was
It helps with stability of tuning & gives the strings MORE length (slightly) that just going thru the bridge only
I understand fully as to why he did it - It's just a traditional Fender (Tele') thing.
Also, I MUCH prefer the 'Block Saddles' as my Tele' came with the older triple (only) bridge saddles
Check out the centar teles.
They got reliced finishes.
I liked that orange one he had on here. Nice looking guitar.
I bought a Cozart a few years back. The "flame maple veneer" was literally a thick plastic cap, and it looked it. No idea how it played because the thick plastic cap arrived broken, with a shred-your-arm sharp plastic edge raised about a sixteenth across most of the upper body, but I will say that literally everything on the guitar screamed cheap. No thanks.
Dude that guitar is beautiful. Even the name looks cool. Id rock that guitar any day. As a matter of fact, I think I’ll get it.
Yes!!! I love your videos, always entertaining 😎
I see you're using a UX2. Mine stopped working- and I miss it terrible. No software upgrades available. Have you had that problem?
Found everyone of your videos great. Tired of high dollar guitars are the way to go. Bought 12 string Cozart. Thanks