Darrell Braun Guitar I’m wondering if that hole is the neck pocket because they suspect people will want to put on a adjustable fender neck? Which I didn’t know fender made until you mentioned it
I know tbh im new to the hole guitar stuff and this company seems nice they know there the a company for new people and they do it with respect and not exploiting us new people from what it seems
I love the Glarry brand. They are very affordable and tought me more about guitar setups and the general mechanics of the guitar than any book or video could. The price emboldened me to do things I would have been scared to even try on an expensive guitar. Lots of trial and error, but the lessons learned are worth it!
Donald Parker No it’s not, these guitars are unsalvageable, the wood is warped and there are many problems that can’t be fixed even by a skilled luthier
@@nocaster5120 I think to say that is misleading. Mine came in perfect, non-warped condition. I will say I agree with you though to the extent that with the bottom bin guitars its very much luck of the draw. But for the money I still think it's worth it.
@@nocaster5120 You know this from first hand experience? Aside from a twisted neck, it is hard for me to imagine an unsolvable problem on something as simple as a tele style guitar. And even a twisted neck might be salvageable (but probably not worth it since you could buy a new one - just like Leo intended).
One thing to note about Glarry guitars is if you are interested in buying one to modify, keep in mind, the routing is slightly off from specs used in Fender replacement parts. You will need to route the pickup holes 1/8" to accommodate a new bridge pickup. The pick guard is specked to Glarry's pickup dimensions which means you will need to buy another pick guard that is cut to fit your neck replacement pickup. Also, the switch and pots are smaller than Fender replacement parts meaning you will have to buy a new plate along with your new pots and switch. If you plan to replace the tailpiece to fit your bridge pickup replacement, the strings on the Glarry ARE NOT through the body. Which means, your Fender tele plate will require you to drill string holes through the body in order to feed your strings through the bottom of the Fender Tele tail plate. Lastly, the screws for both the tail plate and pick guard all need to be reset to the new parts as the holes do not match. If you are not comfortable with modding guitars and working with tools like routers and drills, this is not the right instrument for you to modify.
Very fair review, D. It’s a shame that the gear snobs still feel the need to sneer because it’s not a $2000 Gibson. It’s an affordable guitar which works really well for most people, especially those of us who aren’t loaded. Keep up the good work!
I wouldn’t recommend glarry, for $40-$60 more, you could buy a Donner. But yeah, guitar snobs suck, I’m perfectly fine playing my $160-$200 guitars out of my cheap amps.
@@psyche234 yea I got a $230ish Ibanez gio and a katana 50 and I feel like I'm learning on a Cadillac. definitely didn't need to spend that much but I'm glad I did
If there is a snob that's impressed by his $2,000 Gibson les Paul, he's more than likely a boomer. If you're buying a $2,000 guitar, get something that has unique qualities. Get something with a shape other than a les Paul or a fender strat...
"I've seen a lot worse on a lot more expensive guitars." That tells a lot about the state of the affordable guitar market today. The positives far outweigh the negatives now and hopefully it will force the high end and midrange market to up their game and make sure we get what we pay for, especially in the customer service department. What I am curious about those cheap guitars though is how durable are they? How many issues will pop up in the long run? How many musicians will play their original Glarry 20 years from now because it's still as good if not better than the day they bought it? Especially considering if you can buy a new one for 80$, why spend hundreds to fix and maintain it? I hope this one lasts a long time because it looks like beautiful, well worked pieces of wood have been used to build it and it would be a shame to waste it if a solid instrument could have been built instead.
Jack Strap, They’ll probably do well overtime if they have been sealed properly and have enough solder. Most will probably see some work overtime, and some might get sacrificed in punk and rock shows since they’re so cheap
@Jack Strap I think you're absolutely right. We _know_ that many of the same manufacturing techniques are being used in the midrange market, but "midrange" prices have, if anything, become less attractive, and instruments in that price bracket still have many of the same issues that may become evident in these after some use.
Perhaps the neck will warp, frets will sprout, etc, but those issues happen on more expensive instruments as well. Just look at Darrell's video on why he's done with Gibson. If you spend over 2000$ you expect something that doesn't even compare to an affordable guitar, and it's getting harder for them to deliver. I guess we need more punk rock shows because the market is saturated with cheap guitars. They can't smash them fast enough.
Maple wood is maple wood. Frets are frets. Solder is solder. Time isn’t going to change the basic elements. Assuming it isn’t so far out of whack to begin with, the only thing that may not hold up is the finish. Which honestly, for $80, it’s easy enough to refinish one if that is what matters most to a player. I make players out of clunkers so these $80 Glarry’s are almost a no-brainer... and better than 80% of the reviews on these are pretty positive. It does look like some basic shielding is about the only thing that MUST be done.... besides that, they seem like pretty decent project axes.
Darrell I just wanted to say THANK YOU. After watching so many other crappy You Tube channels that do things like no mic up the guitar properly so it sounds like a speakerphone, and then they do the comparison with long passages all over the place, and then switch to the other comparison a half hour later using different settings, and different passages. Net result total waste of time. Every time I watch one of your reviews/presentations you get right to the most interesting stuff, and do a perfect side by side so you can narrow down your preferences. THANK YOU for saving us from drowning in a sea of You Tube debacles. Okay there are some other ones out there that aren't that bad but yours is the top.
if you buy one, it's yours and you can do with it what you like, but I always feel bad when I see guitars permanently mounted to a wall. luthiers make instruments with which to play music. it's a tool to accomplish a job. it can absolutely look fantastic, but a tool that doesn't do the one job it was created for tugs at my heartstrings.
Maybe do one of those "how to make a cheap guitar play and feel like a million bucks"? I know you've done that before, but I personally love that type of content
Bought this guitar about 2 months ago as my first guitar and I have had so much fun. I put a set of strings on it, roller string trees, and it plays pretty good. Stays in tune. Like the one here, the bridge pickup was really microphonic and the output jack went bad after a month, so I replaced the bridge pickup with a GFS Lil Puncher XL Humbucker (Sounds really good compared to the one it replaced) and a Switchcraft output jack. Definitely not an AMAZING guitar, but an amazing value that is good to learn how to mod guitars.
did you replace the bridge pickup yourself? never owned an instrument before n i'm not much of an engineer lol so I'd be so nervous doing any replacing on my own.
I love the opening clip of you running through the snow and then wiping out. Being from Ontario, Canada I've had a few of those wipeouts myself. Thanks again Darrrell for another informative vid. Cheers.
After watching you and Phil McKnight I can absolutely see buying a guitar like this, adding $150 of parts and love, and ending up with what sounds/feels/looks like a $600-$1000 guitar. Pretty awesome.
Just watched your video on the glarry tele ,what I like about watching your videos is you are not a guitar snob you point out the good and bad things about the guitar.someone who may not have a lot of money they can pick up 0ne of these guitars spend a few bucks to modify it and have something they aren't ashamed to play. To many of the you tubers Harper onhigh dollar guitars ,not everybody can afford a 800 to a2000 dollar guitar.
These guys are going to take over the music world. I don't think it'll be long before you start seeing professional musicians rocking these, simply because it's what they learned on, or they realize a huge price tag doesn't mean it's any better than this. I already own the semi-hollow body version of this T-style, and I also own a Burning Fire bass and a Burning Fire guitar, both in the Sunset paint job. I've bought strings from them, both for bass and ukulele too. They ship fast and free, and they respond to email questions. I love a good bargain. I've barely spend over $320 for two guitars and a bass, and I'm happier than I would have been if I had bought a single instrument at just about any price. I own two (much more expensive) Ibanez basses, and I prefer my Glarry over both. I plan to buy a 5-string "GIB" and an acoustic-electric from them as well. I'll have a whole arsenal for less than the cost of a single, low-end Fender Strat.
I know professional musicians who tour with 100€ guitars since their collection guitars was stollen. Plus, a cheap guitar needs no spécial care, get scratchy, bumped, customised, and gets a good look for the stage.
I actually got one of these last year. Mine is a strat style, black on red. It is surprisingly a very sharp looking guitar. I used your foam block hack on the fret ends and threw a Dragonfire screamer in it. It sounds good and it is actually a fairly nice guitar, if you can believe that!
Glenn and Larry were crying with tears of joy after seeing this review. If you are good guitar player like Darell, you can be like Hendrix even on the crapiest equipment ever made :)
I have a Strat style Glarry that I paid $58.00 for it Shipping was $7.00. I did a little fret filing and sanding and that's it. I love this guitar! It plays great and sounds great. I'm amazed at what they can put together for so cheap in price. I may buy a T-style next, don't need it, but I do like the looks of them. Great video by the way, big fan of yours. Very informative. Thanks.
I bought one of the Strat style. Put on a loaded pickguard (paid as much for it as the guitar!) Did some work on the neck, and added roller string trees. Pretty nifty rock and roll machine now! Super light and comfortable, and it plays great!
Duuuuuude this is a nice guitar! I love the finish. You should probably do a follow up video on this guitar and upgrading some of the parts to see if you can make it sound even better :)
Agree. Would love to see you shield the cavities, swap out the pickups (hear a humbucker in the neck slot), etc. Call it "intro to Glarry upgrades" or "no more microphonic bridge!" Terrific vid, Darrell - thank you for introducing Glarry T-style to us!
A couple years ago I bought a Glarry "burning flame". It was $67 shipped. I still have it. Put some chinese lockers on it and a Dragonfire Crusader on it. It's my drop D. Still floored at how well it was built. It played and sounded fine out of the box. Did my amateur luthier on it and still using it today.
Great work as usual, thank you! Looks like the “humbucker “ route is more of weight relief route. The hole in the neck pocket is most likely for tooling purposes. Overall sounds like if you spend $50 on a new bridge pickup, $30 for a Wilkinson top load bridge w/compensated brass saddles, $30 for a decent wiring harness (I would go for the Mad Hatter 4-way Tele kit for $90) and $50 for a fret level/dress/polish job if you can’t do it yourself , that for $250-$310 you could have a much better guitar than a squire or other brand that is more $ and you would have to do the same thing to it anyway.
I've heard a lot of positive things about Glarrys. Have you ever checked out Wolf/AIO guitars from All In One guitars? Not as cheap as a Glarry or Harley Benton, but their LP style guitars are half the price as a Gibson and 10x more beautiful!
@@Ghosy01 I know they are the same. They started with the Wolf brand and added the AIO brand a couple of years later. Didn't know about the Green guitars.
I remember when I was a kid I got an Indian made acoustic guitar for somewhere around $23, and my first electric guitar was also a used Indian electric guitar which I bought back then for $42. It's still a privilege for passionate people to afford such guitars here in South Asia
I bought a Gear 4 Music LP Jr. The wood is pretty. I took it out of the box and played it for 10 minutes and tore it apart and went to work. Tusq nut, fret leveling and polish, CTS pots, orange drop cap, Kluson deluxe tuners, a modified Epiphone P-90 pickup, new set of knobs and a new pick guard. This thing rocks!!!!
Looks like an ideal guitar to start learning. It sounds really good and after maybe 1 year, maximum 2 time to upgrade! Its great to see there’s some very good cheap guitars out there!
I just bought a Freeman stratocaster last week for US$80,00. It sounds really cool! The shape is beautiful and looks like an expensive guitar. I love it!
Darrell, I absolutely love your channel. I myself own a few cheap Glarry guitars as a beginning left handed player. I mod most of them and they sound decent. Thanks, for the review it was excellent.Keep up the great work. I watch lots of you tubers doing guitar reviews and yours is the best! You are honest, knowledgeable and a great player! Keep em coming and have a rocking day!!!!
Great project guitars especially for beginners like me who want to take a guitar apart and play with modifications. I bought the green Strat style and it looks great.
This is the kind of guitar I tell people to get as a learning tool. For guys that like to tinker. It is a great platform for modding and custom caster projects without the cost.
I'm brand new to guitar as an adult learner. I bought the Glarry gst3, found it on ebay new for $55. I think it's a great platform for me and my (lack of) skill level. A friend changed the strings and did intonation. It holds tune well. I think the nut slots need adjusting, pretty high at first fret. The fret ends need sanding. And the action is high. A friend came over with a custom built strat, and in comparison it is night and day. You really see how cheap the glarry i with it's thick neck and high action. I'm still happy with the purchase but found out what I'm missing compared to a high end guitar. Much easier to play the custom than the glarry. Great beginner for me and I'll try to do the fixes. Also came with dents and dings as there was NO packing material to speak of but that keeps me from making the first ding!
What a great looking guitar, the price is shocking for what you get. Gig bag, wire, tools and extras and a awesome blue sunburst paint job. Man its one cool guitar. Do some shielding work, some fret smoothing, fresh strings and man you got a cool tele-blaster guitar. Great deal!
I don't know how comfortable I'd feel buying one of these things. That low a price? someone is having a hard time somewhere... Are they putting ten year olds on the machines or something?
They are pretty much 100% always made in sweatshops in China. It's places where people are fired if they drop a guitar, and there is no fire safety whatsoever.
What makes you think the big brands do not use child labor? If you really know of a company that they pay fair wages: great! If you just assume it because of the price... Yeah well i am no expert on guitars but even 1000 dollar clothing comes from china
@@thomas.thomas Hey, I'm with you there all the way; you've gotta look into where and how your instrument is made before buying it. Every single maker will outsource it to asian sweatshops if they can, unless they are the type that actively care about their workers. That latter category is a rare one, though...
I'd bought a fazely guitar in the UK from dv247 for £69 delivered. Take away their postage to me, the postage to them, import duty and their profit. These things are being made for sub £20 at most. Crazy to think.
You know not everyone can afford a guitar worth thousands. Some people are just starting out and aren’t sure if they won’t give up. I absolutely hate people who are so judgemental. Yes it’s not the best but why can’t you look at it from a positive perspective? It’s a good guitar for a beginner who can’t afford more.
Note to Darrell, the hole in the neck pocket is used during manufacture to attach the body to the painting jig. Nothing to do with that micro-tilt adjustment facility that CBS/Fender built into 1970s strats. Telecasters (including real ones) generally do not have any foil shielding in body cavities because the metal lipstick cover over the neck pickup is grounded to earth in the wiring of the pickup thereby effectively shielding that pickup, meanwhile the ashtray bridge, which should have a grounding wire attached to it, acts as shielding to the bridge pick-up. It may or may not be helpful to shield the wiring loom cavity, but genuine Fender's don't have any foil so it shouldn't be necessary. Leo Fender was a brilliant engineer who wasn't a guitar player himself but fully understood all the issues with harmonics, electronics, electro-magnetics and radio interferance, so, provided that the 'East Asian' copyists backwards engineer everything accurately, there shouldn't be problems (other than copyright). One last thing, the body wood on the Glarry is avertised as Basswood but it may in fact be 'Paulownia' - a fast-growing variety of tree that is grown in East Asian countries specifically for guitar construction precisely because it is fast-growing and therefore an economically viable renewable resource. It is also extremely light in weight (not much heavier than expanded polystyrene) and yet has resonance and great lateral stability - so, perfect for solid bodies. Actual 'Basswood', however, is NOT light in weight (actually quite heavy) and comes from the 'Limewood' tree (which is NOT the tree the fruit comes from). If you pick up a guitar and find it very light in weight, it is wrong to jump to the conclusion it must be made of Basswood. Yes, Glarry advertise 'Basswood' in this case, but that is often a blanket term used by makers who know you've heard of that (whereas few who might be in the market for a cheap guitar are likely to have heard of 'Paulownia'). I've used both materials in builds (for their differing qualities) as they are different as concrete and marshmallow. Nor are Paulownia and Basswood (Limewood) inferior materials, quite the opposite. Joe Satriani specifies Basswood for his signature Ibanez model.
I bought the Orangewood Oliver Mahogany Grand concert acoustic guitar based on your review of it and I'm so happy I did. What a great guitar! And I got it on outlet for $150, a steal! Thanks!
Just got a Glarry electric guitar a few months ago, for $80. Im a beginner and love it. Learning all my basics on it. If I still like playing in a few more months, I'll get a more expensive one. Def recommend it.
That is surprising for being that cheap and there's lots of room for improvement too if you are willing to modify it, beginners shouldn't be afraid to modify that guitar, make it how it feels good to you and if something feels off about it learn how to FIX IT and you will learn how to make your guitar into your own that you love! That being said I think I'm going to get a Soviet Union Tonika EGS-650 and mod it exactly how I want it to be for how I want it to play!
I own two Glarrys. A tele and a strat. Love them both for the price. After a good set up, it was pretty awesome. Same tele you have. I'm getting another one of their strats to customize, their dark red and black one.
I will say because I own several glarry guitars, my favorite glarry is not really a guitar, it's their rendition of a Fender P Bass. It's almost identical. And I actually really love how it plays. Daryl I don't know if you play bass for not have not been a part of the channel for much 2 months but if so you might want to check it out.
If someone wanted up upgrade their Gary-Larry at a reasonable price, there are tons of options and some are extremely easy to install. I’ve built a few parts-Casters, from either high end American Fender parts, or from inexpensive parts (that are still very good). Spend some time on eBay; it’s all there. There are tons of “prewired” control panels (no soldering or wiring diagrams to worry about) from US sellers. I just did a quick search and found an very cool set-up with reversed controls (volume in the front and switch at the back - my preference), full sized pots, and a 4 way switch p, from a US seller for $30! You also mentioned replacing the bridge pup with a MIM or other inexpensive option. Great idea and there are lots of options, there, too. Many players frequently change pickups, chasing that tone, and several sell the stuff they’re taking out. So I’d also do a search filtering for only “used” listings. I’ll wrap it up by saying building or modifying Telecatsers is a lot of fun and, like I said, can be very easy to do!
I bought a Glarry guitar because of another You Tube channel. He chopped the guitar up pretty badly. So I decided that the guitar needed a better chance. So I ordered the very same guitar. When it arrived, I just loved the green color and the woodgrain on the guitar and the neck. The neck on mine was finished fairly well, no sharp frets, but it to had been rounded off. The action was perfect. I put a clip on tuner on the guitar and tuned it up and checked intonation, and it was real close. It played nice, but when I plugged it into my amplifier..., nothing. I pulled the pickguard off and I found a pretty bad job of soldering the connections. There were cold joints on every connection. The back tone pot cover had come off somehow and the sweeper on the control was knocked off. The output jack wasn't wired in either. I am still hoping to finish that video, but I want to try and salvage what I have; so it stays stock. Then I want to hear her voice, and maybe do a head to head with a Squier Affinity, which is already ahead of the game.
Rob Scallon has a very interesting video detailing the evolution of the guitar going back in history like 1000 years though obviously back that far they're talking about precursors to what would even be known as a guitar in Beethoven's time.
With a little edge sanding of the frets with a block, a pickup upgrade, shielding, a full set-up (standard practice with ANY new guitar), the Glarry guitars end up being really decent! I have a Glarry Strat which is my go-to Strat because of how light it is and how great it sounded after a loaded pickguard upgrade. I was thinking of picking up one of these. But, there are SEVERAL guitars in the way due to an unhealthy Les Paul obsession! 😎🎸👍
Great review Darrel! Top notch as always! I bought a Glarry ,, and the playability is great! Once you change the strings ,,, get the action where you want it and mess with the intonation! Really nice guitar! Didn’t have that problem on my bridge pickup that you had with yours. Takes a a little bit to get used to the lightness’s of the guitar,,, but I’ve had some top of the line guitars over the years. Bought them when things were good and sold them when things got tough! But since I’m not a professional,,, just a hard core enthusiast .. always love having a guitar around! My take why these are so inexpensive is that they are mostly all machined these days from your $3000 guitars to your $89 dollar guitars. Probably from the same type of CNC machine! And in China the workers are paid practically nothing compared to the workers here! So from the body ,, fret board and neck,, you probably getting the same quality on the $3000 dollar guitar as you would on the $89 dollar guitar! If you were to switch out pods,,pick ups and got some locking tuners and a bone nut probably wouldn’t cost you more than $300 dollars,,, and you have something that would rival or be better than that $3000 dollar guitar!!!
I got one of these last November and I was shocked... I didn’t have a Tele-style, and the price was right... What a fun little guitar to play! No, it is not a Fender Tele, and there are upgrades I’ll do in the future, but man is it fun to play! The light weight of the body is a plus as far as I’m concerned... so much fun to play, it looks great- I have the same color as was reviewed... thank you for the review!!😎
Really fun review! I watched it because I've seen very inexpensive guitars online, and the Glarry brand. This dovetails into my suspicion that there is a lot of snobbery involved in guitar buying.
My family’s poor and can’t really afford one of the nice electric guitars and I’m in love with Rock’N’Roll and even have my own band but I need a electric guitar and I’m to young to have a job should I get a glarry for Christmas
GLEN: We should totally start a guitar company!
LARRY: Dude! Let's do it!
Both at the same time: GLARRY!!
Or maybe G&L! ;)
Maybe upgrade it and see what happens and what the price and time turns out to be in comparison to it being worth it?
This is a good joke, I wonder who wrote this script?
You’re way off. It was Lenny and Gary
Darrell Braun Guitar I’m wondering if that hole is the neck pocket because they suspect people will want to put on a adjustable fender neck? Which I didn’t know fender made until you mentioned it
I can make any guitar sound like an $8 guitar.
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Yeash I'm good at that as well !!
I'm up to about $8.50
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Back in the 80's a cheap electric guitar was $600 and amp $350
Meh... I bought a basic Charvel strat in 1986 for $375
Welcome to the future old man
I got a used Westone and a used Crate 10W amp for $120 1986 money. Still have the Westone. It's a nice guitar.
@@buzzcrushtrendkill Westone is a total sleeper brand, I love my Concord
Those guitars that were 'cheap' now go for thousands.
That's actually a really beautiful looking guitar- love the colour.
Well, colour is definitely the most important guitar feature, isn't it!
Catharsis
Blue guitars have a really... blusey sound
If you want a beautiful guitar to look at. Look at a telecaster instead of this 😂😂
What's funny is the actual Fender tele with this finish is like 1200 dollars
I know tbh im new to the hole guitar stuff and this company seems nice they know there the a company for new people and they do it with respect and not exploiting us new people from what it seems
I love the Glarry brand. They are very affordable and tought me more about guitar setups and the general mechanics of the guitar than any book or video could.
The price emboldened me to do things I would have been scared to even try on an expensive guitar.
Lots of trial and error, but the lessons learned are worth it!
Yeah, the $90 guitar seems perfect for modding practice. And kids who won't take it seriously.
The perfect guitar to learn how to mod, fret level and bevel, etc.
Donald Parker No it’s not, these guitars are unsalvageable, the wood is warped and there are many problems that can’t be fixed even by a skilled luthier
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@@nocaster5120 I think to say that is misleading. Mine came in perfect, non-warped condition. I will say I agree with you though to the extent that with the bottom bin guitars its very much luck of the draw. But for the money I still think it's worth it.
Also perfect guitar for people who can't afford it like me.
@@nocaster5120 You know this from first hand experience? Aside from a twisted neck, it is hard for me to imagine an unsolvable problem on something as simple as a tele style guitar. And even a twisted neck might be salvageable (but probably not worth it since you could buy a new one - just like Leo intended).
One thing to note about Glarry guitars is if you are interested in buying one to modify, keep in mind, the routing is slightly off from specs used in Fender replacement parts. You will need to route the pickup holes 1/8" to accommodate a new bridge pickup. The pick guard is specked to Glarry's pickup dimensions which means you will need to buy another pick guard that is cut to fit your neck replacement pickup.
Also, the switch and pots are smaller than Fender replacement parts meaning you will have to buy a new plate along with your new pots and switch.
If you plan to replace the tailpiece to fit your bridge pickup replacement, the strings on the Glarry ARE NOT through the body. Which means, your Fender tele plate will require you to drill string holes through the body in order to feed your strings through the bottom of the Fender Tele tail plate.
Lastly, the screws for both the tail plate and pick guard all need to be reset to the new parts as the holes do not match.
If you are not comfortable with modding guitars and working with tools like routers and drills, this is not the right instrument for you to modify.
Very fair review, D. It’s a shame that the gear snobs still feel the need to sneer because it’s not a $2000 Gibson. It’s an affordable guitar which works really well for most people, especially those of us who aren’t loaded. Keep up the good work!
I wouldn’t recommend glarry, for $40-$60 more, you could buy a Donner. But yeah, guitar snobs suck, I’m perfectly fine playing my $160-$200 guitars out of my cheap amps.
@@psyche234 yea I got a $230ish Ibanez gio and a katana 50 and I feel like I'm learning on a Cadillac. definitely didn't need to spend that much but I'm glad I did
If there is a snob that's impressed by his $2,000 Gibson les Paul, he's more than likely a boomer. If you're buying a $2,000 guitar, get something that has unique qualities. Get something with a shape other than a les Paul or a fender strat...
"I've seen a lot worse on a lot more expensive guitars."
That tells a lot about the state of the affordable guitar market today. The positives far outweigh the negatives now and hopefully it will force the high end and midrange market to up their game and make sure we get what we pay for, especially in the customer service department.
What I am curious about those cheap guitars though is how durable are they? How many issues will pop up in the long run? How many musicians will play their original Glarry 20 years from now because it's still as good if not better than the day they bought it? Especially considering if you can buy a new one for 80$, why spend hundreds to fix and maintain it?
I hope this one lasts a long time because it looks like beautiful, well worked pieces of wood have been used to build it and it would be a shame to waste it if a solid instrument could have been built instead.
Jack Strap, They’ll probably do well overtime if they have been sealed properly and have enough solder. Most will probably see some work overtime, and some might get sacrificed in punk and rock shows since they’re so cheap
I assume the neck will warp and the frets will sprout easily. The bridge may corrode considering it's not stainless steel.
@Jack Strap I think you're absolutely right. We _know_ that many of the same manufacturing techniques are being used in the midrange market, but "midrange" prices have, if anything, become less attractive, and instruments in that price bracket still have many of the same issues that may become evident in these after some use.
Perhaps the neck will warp, frets will sprout, etc, but those issues happen on more expensive instruments as well. Just look at Darrell's video on why he's done with Gibson. If you spend over 2000$ you expect something that doesn't even compare to an affordable guitar, and it's getting harder for them to deliver.
I guess we need more punk rock shows because the market is saturated with cheap guitars. They can't smash them fast enough.
Maple wood is maple wood. Frets are frets. Solder is solder. Time isn’t going to change the basic elements. Assuming it isn’t so far out of whack to begin with, the only thing that may not hold up is the finish. Which honestly, for $80, it’s easy enough to refinish one if that is what matters most to a player. I make players out of clunkers so these $80 Glarry’s are almost a no-brainer... and better than 80% of the reviews on these are pretty positive. It does look like some basic shielding is about the only thing that MUST be done.... besides that, they seem like pretty decent project axes.
Glen: Mom, I'm gonna start a guitar company.
Mom: Okay, but you gotta bring your brother Larry.
The Dalarry Guitar Company (sounds.. uh.. better!)
Larry: This is my brother, Darrell, and this is my other brother, Darrell.
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Uhm am I still going
So im iben and this is my little brother, nezzy
Is it wrong to share the bed with your step sister??? Find out on the next episode of dragonball z
that's way better sounding than i was expecting, pretty shocked tbh
Yep. It's actually nowhere near as bad as the 20$ guitar I bought in the store.
@@trikalabris 20 dollar guitar what??! 💀💀
Darrell I just wanted to say THANK YOU. After watching so many other crappy You Tube channels that do things like no mic up the guitar properly so it sounds like a speakerphone, and then they do the comparison with long passages all over the place, and then switch to the other comparison a half hour later using different settings, and different passages. Net result total waste of time. Every time I watch one of your reviews/presentations you get right to the most interesting stuff, and do a perfect side by side so you can narrow down your preferences. THANK YOU for saving us from drowning in a sea of You Tube debacles. Okay there are some other ones out there that aren't that bad but yours is the top.
I would buy that even just for wall art.
if you buy one, it's yours and you can do with it what you like, but I always feel bad when I see guitars permanently mounted to a wall. luthiers make instruments with which to play music. it's a tool to accomplish a job. it can absolutely look fantastic, but a tool that doesn't do the one job it was created for tugs at my heartstrings.
Josh Hardin don’t think this one was built by a luthier
@@tomholton235 a luthier!? Lol,
it wasn't even made by an adult
@@sheamaddy9893 lmfao
@@sheamaddy9893 that's a lot of damage...
Maybe do one of those "how to make a cheap guitar play and feel like a million bucks"? I know you've done that before, but I personally love that type of content
The extra hole under the neckplate is there to hang the body during the painting process. Older squier's and other import guitars had these holes.
OverLord Opps what??
I thought is was to make it easier to change out the neck with a real Tele neck. But what you're saying does seem more logical.
Rich
Ýes, agreed. They also hung the unfinished parts on stands with studs to move them around and store them.
Now it could be used for snuffing your cigs out! 🤣
It's for hiding dilithium crystals. Who would ever look there?
Bought this guitar about 2 months ago as my first guitar and I have had so much fun. I put a set of strings on it, roller string trees, and it plays pretty good. Stays in tune. Like the one here, the bridge pickup was really microphonic and the output jack went bad after a month, so I replaced the bridge pickup with a GFS Lil Puncher XL Humbucker (Sounds really good compared to the one it replaced) and a Switchcraft output jack. Definitely not an AMAZING guitar, but an amazing value that is good to learn how to mod guitars.
did you replace the bridge pickup yourself? never owned an instrument before n i'm not much of an engineer lol so I'd be so nervous doing any replacing on my own.
It looks like a good guitar, especially the neck. It's a smart move to buy a real cheap guitar with a fixed bridge. One less problem to deal with.
I love the opening clip of you running through the snow and then wiping out. Being from Ontario, Canada I've had a few of those wipeouts myself. Thanks again Darrrell for another informative vid. Cheers.
Man i've always wanted to visit Canada, especially Toronto. How ya doing?
Gotta say when it came out of the box it looked *a lot* nicer than I was expecting. I was waiting for a bright red SSS strat copy.
I know. I'm expecting something that I could sand down and custom paint. Then he pulls out a perfectly nice looking tele copy.
After watching you and Phil McKnight I can absolutely see buying a guitar like this, adding $150 of parts and love, and ending up with what sounds/feels/looks like a $600-$1000 guitar. Pretty awesome.
“I think this pickup is microphonic, can you hear me?” Yes Darrelll, I can hear you. :)
Microphonic is not a big deal, you can easily fix it yourself by so many tutorials on youtube..
Lol
Neck pickup def a keeper, for the bridge pickup nothing a trip to Guitar Fetish can’t solve.
😂
But I can read your comment
Just watched your video on the glarry tele ,what I like about watching your videos is you are not a guitar snob you point out the good and bad things about the guitar.someone who may not have a lot of money they can pick up 0ne of these guitars spend a few bucks to modify it and have something they aren't ashamed to play. To many of the you tubers Harper onhigh dollar guitars ,not everybody can afford a 800 to a2000 dollar guitar.
Posted 10 minutes ago and they're already sold out of the T-styles! Keep working your charm Darrell 😃
They have left handed on stock! Thank god I'm left handed lol!!
These guys are going to take over the music world. I don't think it'll be long before you start seeing professional musicians rocking these, simply because it's what they learned on, or they realize a huge price tag doesn't mean it's any better than this. I already own the semi-hollow body version of this T-style, and I also own a Burning Fire bass and a Burning Fire guitar, both in the Sunset paint job. I've bought strings from them, both for bass and ukulele too. They ship fast and free, and they respond to email questions. I love a good bargain. I've barely spend over $320 for two guitars and a bass, and I'm happier than I would have been if I had bought a single instrument at just about any price. I own two (much more expensive) Ibanez basses, and I prefer my Glarry over both. I plan to buy a 5-string "GIB" and an acoustic-electric from them as well. I'll have a whole arsenal for less than the cost of a single, low-end Fender Strat.
I know professional musicians who tour with 100€ guitars since their collection guitars was stollen.
Plus, a cheap guitar needs no spécial care, get scratchy, bumped, customised, and gets a good look for the stage.
larry: "what should we name our company?"
Glen: " Gee larry IDK itll be stuck with us for life we better put a lot of thought into it"
Why did I laugh
@@applesaus395 because you read this in the voice of either beevis and butthead or bill and Ted?
Gintokitoki I read it in a Canadian accent
@@applesaus395 idk why it made you laugh either hahahhaha
Gintokitoki lol
I actually got one of these last year. Mine is a strat style, black on red. It is surprisingly a very sharp looking guitar. I used your foam block hack on the fret ends and threw a Dragonfire screamer in it. It sounds good and it is actually a fairly nice guitar, if you can believe that!
Glenn and Larry were crying with tears of joy after seeing this review. If you are good guitar player like Darell, you can be like Hendrix even on the crapiest equipment ever made :)
Seriously. If you don't already watch Dave Simpson's channel, check him out. He can make a Squier Bullet sound like a million, nay, a billion bucks!
I have several glarry guitars. I love them. Beautiful finishes, I get them set up and replaced the pick ups and rock out
5:21 - I caught a reflection of an Imperial Walker up on your shelf in the guitar finish 👍
Great catch
Thanks mate. I too like my Star Wars fixes with guitars as well.
I have a Strat style Glarry that I paid $58.00 for it Shipping was $7.00. I did a little fret filing and sanding and that's it. I love this guitar! It plays great and sounds great. I'm amazed at what they can put together for so cheap in price. I may buy a T-style next, don't need it, but I do like the looks of them. Great video by the way, big fan of yours. Very informative. Thanks.
I bought one of the Strat style. Put on a loaded pickguard (paid as much for it as the guitar!) Did some work on the neck, and added roller string trees. Pretty nifty rock and roll machine now! Super light and comfortable, and it plays great!
I stripped and reshaped headstock, swapped bridge pickup for a Fender Japan '62 (20 quid on ebay) - great banger.
I did the same but I put a Dragonfire Screamer in mine. It plays great and sounds awesome. Win win!
Pickguard was loaded with Wilkinson Vintage Voice (ceramic ?) Pups. Gives it a very '60s vibe
Harley Bentons usually come with D'Adarrio strings which are OK to leave on.
Time for another Budget Guitar! Love these episodes, man.
we would love to see you upgrade some of the parts and make a separate video on it ❤️
Duuuuuude this is a nice guitar! I love the finish. You should probably do a follow up video on this guitar and upgrading some of the parts to see if you can make it sound even better :)
Agree. Would love to see you shield the cavities, swap out the pickups (hear a humbucker in the neck slot), etc. Call it "intro to Glarry upgrades" or "no more microphonic bridge!" Terrific vid, Darrell - thank you for introducing Glarry T-style to us!
For The Price, You Can't Go Wrong. Great Guitar To Give To A Beginner Or To Customize.
Somewhere out there, a Trogly is smiling
Lol right! Love my boy trogly
Lollllllll
Whats that?
@@chardmb it's a guitar channel he is document a vintage guitar
Dats right!!
A couple years ago I bought a Glarry "burning flame". It was $67 shipped. I still have it. Put some chinese lockers on it and a Dragonfire Crusader on it. It's my drop D. Still floored at how well it was built. It played and sounded fine out of the box. Did my amateur luthier on it and still using it today.
I bought my daughter a Glarry Strat and I’m am jealous of how light it is.
Great work as usual, thank you! Looks like the “humbucker “ route is more of weight relief route. The hole in the neck pocket is most likely for tooling purposes. Overall sounds like if you spend $50 on a new bridge pickup, $30 for a Wilkinson top load bridge w/compensated brass saddles, $30 for a decent wiring harness (I would go for the Mad Hatter 4-way Tele kit for $90) and $50 for a fret level/dress/polish job if you can’t do it yourself , that for $250-$310 you could have a much better guitar than a squire or other brand that is more $ and you would have to do the same thing to it anyway.
These things just have a great tweak and modify potential.
Also perfect for learning how to work and repair on your guitar 👍🏻😎
This is, hands down, THE most essential guitar channel on RUclips!
The center hole in the neck pocket is usually for hanging the guitar during spraying the finish
Beautiful colors! I think this one deserves some (documented) upgrading just like the Indio Strat last year
I've heard a lot of positive things about Glarrys. Have you ever checked out Wolf/AIO guitars from All In One guitars? Not as cheap as a Glarry or Harley Benton, but their LP style guitars are half the price as a Gibson and 10x more beautiful!
Give it up, Mr CEO of AIO
He's being honest. Those Wolf Les Pauls are beautiful and they are exactly 500 bucks
Its not just AIO/WOLF it all comes from the same factory which is in korea, in Europe they are called Green guitars .
@@callumhayes9733 Nope, just a proud owner of one of their beautiful guitars.
@@Ghosy01 I know they are the same. They started with the Wolf brand and added the AIO brand a couple of years later. Didn't know about the Green guitars.
I love it when he falls in the snow after throwing the guitar. :) love your videos. Keep it up
I remember when I was a kid I got an Indian made acoustic guitar for somewhere around $23, and my first electric guitar was also a used Indian electric guitar which I bought back then for $42. It's still a privilege for passionate people to afford such guitars here in South Asia
I bought a Gear 4 Music LP Jr. The wood is pretty. I took it out of the box and played it for 10 minutes and tore it apart and went to work. Tusq nut, fret leveling and polish, CTS pots, orange drop cap, Kluson deluxe tuners, a modified Epiphone P-90 pickup, new set of knobs and a new pick guard. This thing rocks!!!!
Larry: we should name our company after something awesome I was thinking “Larry” Glarry: I have a better idea
The six million dollar man plays an 89 dollar guitar. I'm pretty sure he could make anything sound good. I love this channel!
six millions?
This model is known as the Glarry "Sawdust".
true, but it's a notable step up from the Glarry Cardboard.
Looks like an ideal guitar to start learning. It sounds really good and after maybe 1 year, maximum 2 time to upgrade!
Its great to see there’s some very good cheap guitars out there!
Thanks D! Throwing that guitar on the snow covered roof and falling while running away, cracks me up!
Thanks for sharing brother and Be Well All!
The color is actually amazing. Glen and larry must have been smoking some psychedelic stuff and saw colors beyond our spectrum.
The headstock is a really interesting shape. Don't know if it counts for anything - but I quite like it.
You might like Fujigen strats then
Fernandes guitars have those style headstocks
I'm impressed. Glenn and Larry did a great job
Darrell: Too Attacky
Technical Term: ICEPICK
I just bought a Freeman stratocaster last week for US$80,00. It sounds really cool! The shape is beautiful and looks like an expensive guitar. I love it!
Those holes are in like all the cheap bolt on Chinese kits, they are really good to hang the guitars from to dry them
Darrell, I absolutely love your channel. I myself own a few cheap Glarry guitars as a beginning left handed player. I mod most of them and they sound decent. Thanks, for the review it was excellent.Keep up the great work. I watch lots of you tubers doing guitar reviews and yours is the best! You are honest, knowledgeable and a great player! Keep em coming and have a rocking day!!!!
I love how you are doing this when last week you did a glass neck that cost more than this guitar😅
Great project guitars especially for beginners like me who want to take a guitar apart and play with modifications. I bought the green Strat style and it looks great.
Spending a half hour repotting a pickup in candle wax still werf.
Hole in the neck pocket was for painting.
This is the kind of guitar I tell people to get as a learning tool. For guys that like to tinker. It is a great platform for modding and custom caster projects without the cost.
Whenever I'm scrolling for guitars on Google so many glarrys show up. Too many glarrys
Careful, you'll go blind! 🙄
I guess you could say its a glarrying issue 😎
@angel torres
hilarious
What do you mean too many half of the electrics are sold out
@@yaboidustin2447 you know that Google shows products that are out of stock right?
NIce review, Darrell, I always appreciate your reviews! Thank you!! 👍👍👍
You nailed it with that “gig bag”. It’s definitely more of a dust cover.
Lol better than nothin i guess. Has a handle!
I'm brand new to guitar as an adult learner. I bought the Glarry gst3, found it on ebay new for $55. I think it's a great platform for me and my (lack of) skill level. A friend changed the strings and did intonation. It holds tune well. I think the nut slots need adjusting, pretty high at first fret. The fret ends need sanding. And the action is high. A friend came over with a custom built strat, and in comparison it is night and day. You really see how cheap the glarry i with it's thick neck and high action. I'm still happy with the purchase but found out what I'm missing compared to a high end guitar. Much easier to play the custom than the glarry. Great beginner for me and I'll try to do the fixes. Also came with dents and dings as there was NO packing material to speak of but that keeps me from making the first ding!
You need to do a first act guitar if you want a inexpensive guitar😂😂
Lyxpro guitars. 3/4 scale.
@Myke Fuller yep, brent hinds plays a first act custom, few other doomy/stoner bands play a custom as well.
What a great looking guitar, the price is shocking for what you get. Gig bag, wire, tools and extras and a awesome blue sunburst paint job. Man its one cool guitar. Do some shielding work, some fret smoothing, fresh strings and man you got a cool tele-blaster guitar. Great deal!
Darrell - Nice.
His intro- Scary.
I have had a glarry acoustic for about 2 years and it has been a fantastic guitar
I don't know how comfortable I'd feel buying one of these things. That low a price? someone is having a hard time somewhere... Are they putting ten year olds on the machines or something?
They are pretty much 100% always made in sweatshops in China. It's places where people are fired if they drop a guitar, and there is no fire safety whatsoever.
What makes you think the big brands do not use child labor? If you really know of a company that they pay fair wages: great! If you just assume it because of the price... Yeah well i am no expert on guitars but even 1000 dollar clothing comes from china
@@thomas.thomas Hey, I'm with you there all the way; you've gotta look into where and how your instrument is made before buying it. Every single maker will outsource it to asian sweatshops if they can, unless they are the type that actively care about their workers.
That latter category is a rare one, though...
I'd bought a fazely guitar in the UK from dv247 for £69 delivered. Take away their postage to me, the postage to them, import duty and their profit. These things are being made for sub £20 at most. Crazy to think.
You know not everyone can afford a guitar worth thousands. Some people are just starting out and aren’t sure if they won’t give up. I absolutely hate people who are so judgemental. Yes it’s not the best but why can’t you look at it from a positive perspective? It’s a good guitar for a beginner who can’t afford more.
I have exact same guitar, I took the neck off and put a fender replacement neck on it and switched the pickups, plays amazing.
No such thing as too " attacky" in a guitar. I love ATTACK!
This is the brand my after school program would use for the guitars. I got a wave of nostalgia seeing and hearing this :')
When Darrell makes an $89 guitar sound better than my Gibson R9😭😭😭
What amp are you using?
A fender hot rod deville (I know this is a horrible combination for a Gibson lol)
Note to Darrell, the hole in the neck pocket is used during manufacture to attach the body to the painting jig. Nothing to do with that micro-tilt adjustment facility that CBS/Fender built into 1970s strats. Telecasters (including real ones) generally do not have any foil shielding in body cavities because the metal lipstick cover over the neck pickup is grounded to earth in the wiring of the pickup thereby effectively shielding that pickup, meanwhile the ashtray bridge, which should have a grounding wire attached to it, acts as shielding to the bridge pick-up. It may or may not be helpful to shield the wiring loom cavity, but genuine Fender's don't have any foil so it shouldn't be necessary. Leo Fender was a brilliant engineer who wasn't a guitar player himself but fully understood all the issues with harmonics, electronics, electro-magnetics and radio interferance, so, provided that the 'East Asian' copyists backwards engineer everything accurately, there shouldn't be problems (other than copyright). One last thing, the body wood on the Glarry is avertised as Basswood but it may in fact be 'Paulownia' - a fast-growing variety of tree that is grown in East Asian countries specifically for guitar construction precisely because it is fast-growing and therefore an economically viable renewable resource. It is also extremely light in weight (not much heavier than expanded polystyrene) and yet has resonance and great lateral stability - so, perfect for solid bodies. Actual 'Basswood', however, is NOT light in weight (actually quite heavy) and comes from the 'Limewood' tree (which is NOT the tree the fruit comes from). If you pick up a guitar and find it very light in weight, it is wrong to jump to the conclusion it must be made of Basswood. Yes, Glarry advertise 'Basswood' in this case, but that is often a blanket term used by makers who know you've heard of that (whereas few who might be in the market for a cheap guitar are likely to have heard of 'Paulownia'). I've used both materials in builds (for their differing qualities) as they are different as concrete and marshmallow. Nor are Paulownia and Basswood (Limewood) inferior materials, quite the opposite. Joe Satriani specifies Basswood for his signature Ibanez model.
0:16 hold up wtf that’s sick
Yeah each roller can have 3 pickups. Each roller has a switch to roll them so you can get a tone of mixes. Not cheap though.
@@ubermac85 cheaper to get a variax and do the exact same thing, plus changing tuning with the modeling.
I bought the Orangewood Oliver Mahogany Grand concert acoustic guitar based on your review of it and I'm so happy I did. What a great guitar! And I got it on outlet for $150, a steal! Thanks!
I don’t play the guitar but I like watching these cheap guitar reviews.
Just got a Glarry electric guitar a few months ago, for $80. Im a beginner and love it. Learning all my basics on it. If I still like playing in a few more months, I'll get a more expensive one. Def recommend it.
That is surprising for being that cheap and there's lots of room for improvement too if you are willing to modify it, beginners shouldn't be afraid to modify that guitar, make it how it feels good to you and if something feels off about it learn how to FIX IT and you will learn how to make your guitar into your own that you love! That being said I think I'm going to get a Soviet Union Tonika EGS-650 and mod it exactly how I want it to be for how I want it to play!
I own two Glarrys. A tele and a strat. Love them both for the price. After a good set up, it was pretty awesome. Same tele you have. I'm getting another one of their strats to customize, their dark red and black one.
I can make 1000$ guitar sound like -69$ guitar
I could do better - she would sound like a 6,9 Dollar guitar. Now it's your turn!
Nice
@@juantovar5084 haha ikr
69cents yo
$69.99
I will say because I own several glarry guitars, my favorite glarry is not really a guitar, it's their rendition of a Fender P Bass. It's almost identical. And I actually really love how it plays. Daryl I don't know if you play bass for not have not been a part of the channel for much 2 months but if so you might want to check it out.
Once I noticed he ends each sentence like a question I can’t unhear it. Help me
I hate you
@@ot4kon Instant karma's gonna get you...
That’s because he speaks Canadian.
@@vivlund Eh?
@DMSProduktions yah hey der
If someone wanted up upgrade their Gary-Larry at a reasonable price, there are tons of options and some are extremely easy to install. I’ve built a few parts-Casters, from either high end American Fender parts, or from inexpensive parts (that are still very good). Spend some time on eBay; it’s all there. There are tons of “prewired” control panels (no soldering or wiring diagrams to worry about) from US sellers. I just did a quick search and found an very cool set-up with reversed controls (volume in the front and switch at the back - my preference), full sized pots, and a 4 way switch p, from a US seller for $30! You also mentioned replacing the bridge pup with a MIM or other inexpensive option. Great idea and there are lots of options, there, too. Many players frequently change pickups, chasing that tone, and several sell the stuff they’re taking out. So I’d also do a search filtering for only “used” listings. I’ll wrap it up by saying building or modifying Telecatsers is a lot of fun and, like I said, can be very easy to do!
The bridge position... Sounds really sharp, bad...
Swapped mine - was to ice-picky to my taste.
I think it sounds kinda cool
I bought a Glarry guitar because of another You Tube channel. He chopped the guitar up pretty badly. So I decided that the guitar needed a better chance. So I ordered the very same guitar.
When it arrived, I just loved the green color and the woodgrain on the guitar and the neck. The neck on mine was finished fairly well, no sharp frets, but it to had been rounded off. The action was perfect. I put a clip on tuner on the guitar and tuned it up and checked intonation, and it was real close. It played nice, but when I plugged it into my amplifier..., nothing.
I pulled the pickguard off and I found a pretty bad job of soldering the connections. There were cold joints on every connection. The back tone pot cover had come off somehow and the sweeper on the control was knocked off. The output jack wasn't wired in either.
I am still hoping to finish that video, but I want to try and salvage what I have; so it stays stock. Then I want to hear her voice, and maybe do a head to head with a Squier Affinity, which is already ahead of the game.
“The guitar is a miniature orchestra in itself.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven
That was a different instrument in many ways than the guitars of today.
Would be coolto hear his input on the electrical guitarr.
@@Magisktification Moonlight sonata sounds like a metal song when distorted
Rob Scallon has a very interesting video detailing the evolution of the guitar going back in history like 1000 years though obviously back that far they're talking about precursors to what would even be known as a guitar in Beethoven's time.
@@SteveOnlin
The third movement sounds metal even on the piano lmao
With a little edge sanding of the frets with a block, a pickup upgrade, shielding, a full set-up (standard practice with ANY new guitar), the Glarry guitars end up being really decent! I have a Glarry Strat which is my go-to Strat because of how light it is and how great it sounded after a loaded pickguard upgrade. I was thinking of picking up one of these. But, there are SEVERAL guitars in the way due to an unhealthy Les Paul obsession! 😎🎸👍
Try a review of one of their “super strat” models
check out Giannini Standard for comparison.
Thank you Darrell. I always enjoy your videos.
How's that neck when you move it, almost flamed looking. Pretty wild I thought for something so cheap.
Great review Darrel! Top notch as always! I bought a Glarry ,, and the playability is great! Once you change the strings ,,, get the action where you want it and mess with the intonation! Really nice guitar! Didn’t have that problem on my bridge pickup that you had with yours. Takes a a little bit to get used to the lightness’s of the guitar,,, but I’ve had some top of the line guitars over the years. Bought them when things were good and sold them when things got tough! But since I’m not a professional,,, just a hard core enthusiast .. always love having a guitar around! My take why these are so inexpensive is that they are mostly all machined these days from your $3000 guitars to your $89 dollar guitars. Probably from the same type of CNC machine! And in China the workers are paid practically nothing compared to the workers here! So from the body ,, fret board and neck,, you probably getting the same quality on the $3000 dollar guitar as you would on the $89 dollar guitar! If you were to switch out pods,,pick ups and got some locking tuners and a bone nut probably wouldn’t cost you more than $300 dollars,,, and you have something that would rival or be better than that $3000 dollar guitar!!!
I got one of these last November and I was shocked... I didn’t have a Tele-style, and the price was right... What a fun little guitar to play! No, it is not a Fender Tele, and there are upgrades I’ll do in the future, but man is it fun to play! The light weight of the body is a plus as far as I’m concerned... so much fun to play, it looks great- I have the same color as was reviewed... thank you for the review!!😎
But was it fun to play??
Really fun review! I watched it because I've seen very inexpensive guitars online, and the Glarry brand. This dovetails into my suspicion that there is a lot of snobbery involved in guitar buying.
My family’s poor and can’t really afford one of the nice electric guitars and I’m in love with Rock’N’Roll and even have my own band but I need a electric guitar and I’m to young to have a job should I get a glarry for Christmas
Seems like a good beginner’s guitar. I would go for it.
Philip B ok thx
It depends on your budget
Juan Tovar usually when I get an extra like an airsoft gun or records it’s with child support
Steve Thomas not bad analogy and inspired thanks man
Looks like a perfect base to customize a bit and still be waaaaay under budget! Thanks for sharing Darrell.