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I would just say that the neck pickup has a radius to match the fingerboard... 😂... that's a beautiful wood & finish
Acclimate and adjust the truss rod first!
Looks like it's gone up in price, $149.99😂
Project guitar yes!
Years ago I bought a $79. Tele-style guitar online, so I could learn setups and upgrades. I bonded with that lil guitar and love it as much as the expensive ones. Thanks Landon. 🎸
Rock on!
I should have bought one below 100 I was always hesitant to modify or set up my guitar.
Even Leo Fender couldn’t use “Telecaster” when he owned G&L. He used “ASAT” which supposedly stands for “Also Sold As Telecaster”.
I heard ASAT was As Same As Telecaster
@@harryebbeson Maybe so. At any rate, it would appear that using the Telecaster name is some kind of legally prohibited infringement
Judging from the things we see coming out of China… they don’t strike me as at ALL interested in things like patents or copyrights. Things like the tsunami waves of ‘Chibsons’ that have been coming into the states stand as solid evidence of that.
I wish though that if they’re going to copy names & products like Fender, Gibson, etc. without any legal worries at all, they’d concentrate on making better/closer ‘copies’ of the real thing. Now that I’ve typed that out… it dawns on me that this would only make the problem worse. 🤦♂️🤣
Suing a Chinese company for copywrite infringement is harder than it sounds
@@gearmeister I don’t think anyone is suggesting such a thing. I have to imagine that the difficulty of doing so is pretty much the reason that Chinese companies do it.
I once grew Paulownia Trees at my old farm. They grow very, very fast. In 8 years I had a 30’ tree. But the roots protrude from the ground. Paulownia is basically like Bamboo - branches are hollow on the inside like bamboo. Great smelling flowers in the spring. Strange tree though.
It would be great that you upgrade the shit out of this guitar and do an A/B comparison too see if this is worth modding it ! Great video as always Landon and its so true what you say about the actual society we live.
YES!....Please
And prefeably upgrade with cheap ebay pick ups first and then maybe branded ones to get an A-B-C comparison.
It takes a lot of confidence in your own star power to not get around to opening the box in a video about its contents until the six-minute mark. Brava.
No it doesn’t 😁
@@landonbailey if you say so
For mods: Take the pickups out, take off the cover and tape, and carefully squirt superglue into the copper coils. This will "pot" them on the cheap. You can also use thinner epoxy/resins, or wax to do this, but superglue is quick/cheap.
Set-up the action, check the nut slots, all the usual other stuff. I bet it comes across like a different beast altogether.
I bought one as a gift for a buddy 2 years back - routed and added a humbucker bridge and put in a p90 sized humbucker (then an esquire pickguard). He loves it and uses it every day, and now he's famous while I salt away in the wilds of New Brunswick...
How famous, is he a legend in his own mind!?
I'm interesting in seeing how this performs with new tuners, pickups, and strings...if the neck and action can be setup well, it might be a fun project...
Loving the vid so far! Cool to see you trying out more long form ones as well as the Shorts content
I have a LyxPro. Seafoam Green. I put aftermarket pickups on it. New tuners, swapped out the tone cap. Oh, and put brass saddles on it. I also dressed the frets. Plays great! Mine was $139. I play it regularly.
Very nice!
I think you should definitely NOT mod that guitar. Paulownia wood is the lightest, softest wood ever. I'll bet there's a bad neck dive. And no screw is gonna stay tight in that crappy wood. But hey, knock yourself out if you want. I'm sure it will be an interesting, entertaining video.
Def would love to see a follow up vid on this with you upgrading and setting it up! 😎🎸
Cheap guitars are usually good except for the tuners. Good machine heads cost $140-200 Canadian. I have an excellent Harley Benton, but it needs locking tuners.. which is worth doing for playability, but you’ll never get it back when you sell. And I’ve sold every guitar I’ve had except my first.
I'd like to see this in a quick demo after it is set up with a more normal action.Btw, that action reminded me of a Raven Bass I bought in '72 or '73. It was like trying to play on a cutting steel trampoline. Boingy! An upgrade video is definitely in order so we know if the bones-body and neck- are good.
I got this. Give it a set up and replace the tuners and probably nut. I did a fret job too. Mine’s a solid guitar now.
Thanks for putting this video out. I would be curious to see how this would sound with a setup. After that, you can decide what you want to do with it.
That's my input.
Hi Landon, thanks for the video. Yes, it’d be really interesting to see what a full upgrade (tuners, bridge, p/ups, pots etc) does to/for that guitar. Greetings from South Africa
Bought a used Squier bullet for like 70 bucks that didn’t sound as bad as this thing to begin with. You can upgrade and modify the hell out of anything and make it sound and feel like something twice as expensive. Just need a solid foundation and you have to decide if it’s worth it.
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If the saddles are slammed for height, a flat shim in the neck pocket for full size cures the higher action & saddle/string break angle that won't ever happen if the fretboard is slammed to the pickguard. Just have to adjust the pickup heights for the shim thickness. Basically a set up that most every guitar needs to be finished off to preference. The sub $ 100 guitars are basically assembled for being "in the cheap seats of the ball park". As long as the pickups aren't microphonic, it's going to eventually play in quite well. Might take a set of strings.
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I just bought the five below guitar and I’m making a vid on it also
That 25 dollar acoustic guitar? I'm interested
@@briandipierro8865 vid wil be coming soon
It's kinda pretty, and I kinda like a light guitar... But dear God it sounded horrible. I felt bad for your poor Princeton having to make those noises.
I would be interested in knowing just what it takes to get playable. Clearly tuners and a FULL setup. Probably recut or replace the nut, possibly shim the neck just for "playable" condition. Only then would we have any idea if the PUP's and controls are salvagable. It's like Amazon is selling guitar tech training material.
So, while I find the setup and mod videos quite enjoyable to watch, I almost feel it's not worth the effort unless you simply need the content. The time and materials are going to cost way more than the guitar did.
Pretty color and wood on the body.
8:35 I think on export for convex, so it goes „out“, and for concave it‘s „cave“, wich is scooped. 😊
About two and a half years ago I decided that after playing for 20 plus years, I wanted to finally try a T-style guitar. I ended up ordering three different ones from Amazon. One of them was a Lyx Pro identical to the one you have in this video. My experience was similar to yours. The finish on the body was nice, and I really liked the neck, but everything else was "meh"... I ended up sending the Lyx Pro back. I do think that it could have been a good base for a mod platform though. Looking forward to seeing what you do with yours...
It's nice when you get surprisingly good cheap guitar .A few months ago I bought a Harley Benton TE 20 HH T style for £76 +p&p for a laugh expecting very little and its a great little player .The fact that that one is so light makes it very appealing and interesting to see how it turns out after a bit of work .
Just got my first “Amazon cheap guitar” a Westbrook Racer and I have to say fit and finish are on par with guitars 3 times as much money. There are some incredibly nice guitars out there right now for very low cost.
Fun video, thank you for sharing! Yes please on doing a video with you modding up this instrument. I believe it is very nice looking. I've heard worse pick ups on other cheap guitars. My beater practice guitar is a StratOGlary, and it doesn't sound great. Your LyxTelCaster looks quite nice.
I wonder what the radius of the neck pickup is? and if it is even close to the fretboard radius,
I like the grain on the body but the colour is a bit too dark for my liking.
That high action might be an indication of big problems with either the neck or the pocket, hopefully its a neck shim that they messed up!
It could use a quick setup but overall, it doesn't seem too horrible. I wonder what it will sound like if it gets intonated and the bridge set up and the nut filed
I want to get one of these, or the Glarry mustang looking guitar (which is around 59$ usd in America right now) and use it to learn how to solder and wire new pickups
The Grotes are a great value and just a bit better and more consistent. Rock on!
Paulownia doesnt even feel like real wood its so light. Had a strat unfinished body made from that once, felt more like hardened cardboard or styrofoam than anything else. Returned it.
Paulownia Wood Body. How are the fret ends? Sharp?
Many of the original telecasters were made from pine and were surprisingly light.
Recently I tested some new ‘made in the USA’ telecasters and they weighed a tonne (10lbs plus). When I commented on this to an old timer who lived next door to the Fender factory back in the day he said “And many of the Gibsons were really light back then as well.” I couldn’t believe that as every Les Paul I’ve ever touched has been a boat anchor (including my own). Next time he visited he brought his early-days LP with him (must be worth a fortune) and it was 2lbs lighter than my 2010 model.
Looks very nice! needing a setup and maybe pickups and better tuners, not bad at all
Mod it Landon, see what you can do with just tuners and pickup upgrade. And of course a proper setup. That will be interesting for sure. Theoretically, if you drop some pickups & tuners in it, and do a setup - you would have something like an upgraded Squier Classic Vibe Tele, for less than the sticker price of a CV Tele.
Your first impression and description of this guitar is the same as my observations of the Leo Jaymz tele diy kit I got for my birthday. I had to shim the neck the get the action acceptable, and even though it’s “mahogany” it’s incredibly lightweight. Also, the stock strings wouldn’t stay in tune and broke after less than a day. I think they may be exactly the same guitar except the kit has a paddle headstock and you have to apply your own finish.
"Mahogany" is the finish color. The body is Paulownia.
It sounds like it is fretting out even with high action. Are the frets really uneven?
I like that you showed the full experience of unboxing and tuning a cheap guitar. It’s a good thing for people to see. Too bad they come with such high action, because If you bought this as your first guitar you wouldn’t be able to learn very easily on this.
Agreed, but they come with the Allen wrenches to adjust that and TH-cam has a zillion videos on basic set up.
If the nut action is high all you have to do for a temporary fix is tune it a whole step down and capo it at fret #2 and then re- tune.
Learning basic guitar set up is just like owning a bike. It is essential to know how to adjust your brakes an air up your tires.
Folks too lazy to do that need some therapy.
Depends, if one is learning Cowboy Chords & staying within the first 5-7 frets pf the neck, how bad can the action really be as an issue that dropping the saddles & pickup heights is a learning instrument ? I get it though, if one is learning guitar, they'll assume that the build & set up on a new & out of the box guitar was done for them. Even a beginner is going to have to learn how to tune it for Standard E.
I'd love to see a comparison of pickups that are in it compared to better ones.
I've seen it on eBay
Do a deep dive, let’s see what the pots look like behind that plate
As light as it is, the wood is probably Pawlina (sp?) which is a really light wood.
I want to see the add new pickups , tuners , adjust the neck , dress the frets , add new bridge plate with modern 6 saddle set up... perhaps add new full sized pots and switch.. or whatever you think it needs update please.
why does that decibel reader behind you keep showing the time?
When did you review that nice cherry es-335 style hanging to your right? Gibson, Heritage, or Epiphone dot…?
Mod it, good sir. MOD IT! 🤣
I spent the lockdown(s) learning to work on guitars, and it’s turned into a really enjoyable hobby. I’d like to see what you can do with this & maybe get a few ideas along the way. So yes - mod it. 👍🏼
I can’t help but wonder if maybe the body is chambered. A lot of the less expensive guitars seem to be lighter than usual. But that sounds REALLY light. The truss rod access caught my eye too. Looks like a really long rout… all the way to the first tuner?
I was just saying the other day I wish Landon would do another cheap guitar video. Because I've haven't seen one on TH-cam in like 30 seconds. Thanks for scratching that itch.
The body is Paulownia wood, an Asian species. There are some plantations in the US, the Jimmy Carter estate, for example. The “mahogany” in the description is a bit misleading, probably referring to the colour, although that’s a bit inaccurate as well.
Amazon guitars too scary for me to waste my money on personally.
Is this guitar routed to fit a full sized P90 in the neck ?
youll see it all here th-cam.com/video/Q8EbeSg1NfQ/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
I love your style Landon, you got a Henry’s Kitchen vibe to you and I love it.
Great video , it brings back memories of what cheap guitars use to be like years ago, after watching you tune it, i needed to go to the dentist...geeeez .....great channel thx for what you do...
With that guitars tuning problems I would have already given it the Pete Townsend treatment🎸😆👍
What a fantastic video have a wonderful day Landon also do you have regrets when looking back in life ❤😊
absolutely, do the improvements for us to see. Also would be nice to see a step by step set up, for those of us who have never done that before. By the way, your price on the photo states $89.00. You said out loud, $149, for what its worth.
I paid Canadian price
Palawania wood is super light, like BALSA wood. I have a strat body I never used made of this. They used to make rickshaws and carriages out of this because of its light weight. I have no idea if it has good sonic qualities but other guitar manufacturers would be all over it if it sounded good.
Hope to see what you can do with it Landon. It looked like it had potential.
I know this sounds like a dumb question but I’m a beginner. What did he do around the 14 min mark to make it sound electric?????
Distortion pedal you mean?
I figured it out, it’s the amplifier. It’s pretty old. Doesn’t have a gain knob. Appreciate you inquiring 🫡
For a budget guitar though you will always need to change strings and adjust action. Other than that. ?
Would love to see this set up properly, and to see it ridiculously modded (like Cunife) and perhaps go crazy and add a piezo and synth output. I mean, go beast mode crazy.
Last year I bought a pawlonia wood p-bass at the same price point from amazon. Its very light but then there is neck dive because of that.
Yes, please upgrade this POS. I would love to see a video where you take it apart and make it into something of value.
..looks like it's about time for a Shim, ..Slim Jim.🤷🎸
Do you plan on selling that fender mustang competition bass anytime soon?
Is it a light guitar?
electronics and pickups to the trash ! The amp made no miracles lol . Thank you for the presentation !
I think their QC is a bit hit or miss. I bought the black version as a mod project and its not bad after new strings and a set-up
Just looking at it when you pulled it out you can tell it needs a shim and proly a truss adjustment. That thing looked like a banana!🤣
Definitely would enjoy watching you do a mod on this one
HEY Landon, Greetings from Northeast U.S.A. Good job on the video. Your studio is looking great. Most people are pretty cool. Don't let the idiots get to you. They don't have anything else to do. Light guitar and inexpensive. Being broke and having a broken back this would be just what the Doctor ordered. happy Holidays.Cheers
Cheers!
Is it light? Is it a light guitar??
For real, it looks really cool for the price and I'd love to see how good it can become with some mods!
What sucks is the people that will buy that won't know anything about setting them up.
I’d love a follow up! A lot of cheaper guitar reviews I see only use the strings out of the box and no setup I feel like a lot don’t do them justice. New strings on there and it will sound sharp.
Some of the "budget" guitars are worth modding because some have light body and nice neck and the rest can be upgraded especially with used hi end parts. Thanks for sharing!
Got me an Eart ""T-style" in a beautiful cherry red finish off of Amazon for cheap. I feel it could be turned into a very nice pro level instrument with a few upgrades and a proper set-up.
@@JackTheSkunk Eart is one example of affordable guitars with stainless steel frets. You have a nice tele with stainless steel frets.
Is it light? Is it a light guitar? 🥴😁
Kidding! Do a follow up/fix it video! 🤘🏻🔥 Love your content and your sense of humor 😎
yeah i ordered the mezza goobie 1.21 gigawatt duel rectumizer... and it turns out it has nothing to do with the electric guitar!
Are you sure there was not a 3 Ply guard in the pic ?
The wood grain of the body is beautiful. Hardware on something that cheap isn't going to be good. New strings that will stretch plus bad tuners will make staying in tune impossible. It should be a decent if cheap project guitar if the wood is solid.
Gotoh tuners, some decent PU's, and see what you can do.
Fer Crissakes dude, it's Paulownia. That stuff makes basswood seem heavy. I love your tongue in cheek videos. Youre my favoriteTH-cam star.
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So did I you content thief! :P I've got a video coming out later this week I believe. It's actually not bad, ok, perhaps I need to watch this first instead of ranting :)
Mine is the same colour, replacement pickups, bridge and added string ferrules already in hand! First the bought the cheap guitar video, then the I upgraded a crap guitar video. My action was a lot better than that though. Probably the cold? I got mine in September I think it was, the same $149CDN. Fun little guitar!
I got one of the Glarry guitars to review. It was ummm...not playable out of the box. needed a neck shim, new bridge(saddles stripped) and the frets needed to be leveled. You get what you pay for, huh?
On the bright side, I am turning it into a David Gilmour Strat, putting real components on it, and giving it away. I see you did another video fixing yours up too. Cool man.
Is there alot of neck dive??
Would love to see you mod it mate 😀👍🏻
I tried this one. Wanted to like it - like, so bad. Unfortunately it holds the distinction of possibly being the worst guitar I've ever played. Could have been just the one I got. Clear-coated mouse-dropping? Check. I could go on. I won't.
I'd like to see you rebuild this guitar.
Yeah, it would be cool to mod that one!
So the guitar looks great, is super light, neck feels great and sounds just fine, and all that for 89 bucks. But you couldn't be bothered to give the truss rod half a turn and tune the thing and maybe even play something. Light hearted videos are fine but let's get serious from time to time and be fair to the people who made this product.
Everyone loves finding that one little cheap guitar that just gets to you. it's a quest to find these little gems, few and far between.
Eagerly awaiting the upgrades.
I bought one of them from that brand not like that it’s like an old strat brown n black. And learning the whole guitar I got it to learn. But heck out of tune most of the time but that could be me but mine is very light as well. And yes let’s see the upgrade.
The UK Amazon has one for £102.40 it looks horrible in the pictures and there are complaints in the comments. Someone ordered a rh version and got a lefty instead. They call it a 30’’ version.
Flashback to the crappy cheap guitars of my youth, the plywood Teiscos, etc, with ultra-hi action, sloppy tuners, and rubbish electronics. Almost certain to put a beginner off playing guitar forever. I suppose this Amazon jobby at least has the bones (neck & body) to allow it to be coaxed into some form of semi-acceptability, maybe.
Sorry, but this isn't a good first guitar for a newbie it will only disgust someone. Get a squire, at least even used if it fits your price range.
Please check out the FGN JIL2 "tele" type. It's Fujigen factory Telecaster, made in Japan.
This is definitely an Amazon product level review.
I was going for Temu like your videos!
I love a super light guitar which makes this a great mod platform as it seems to have a decent neck to go with the body but because of your video I now know that I am a head stock snob because I'd pay twice this price for a Squier or similar guitar with a proper Telecaster headstock. There, I said it. 🤗😍😘😁
Super light bodies with maple necks tend to cause neck dive. Whatever it's made of I need it to be well balanced.
If you’re going to put in the money for a headstock that you like, you might as well skip this guitar-the necks are not good no matter how you spin it. A spades a spade. In my experience, you can upgrade and mod a guitar as much as you want but it will never play great if the foundation is poor quality to begin with.
@@DirtyDirkDiggler True, even Harley Bentons are infinitely better and only marginally more expensive. I got a TE90FLT swamp ash Tele for only $180 delivered a few years back. That thing plays and sounds really good and it's super light to boot.
It doesn’t look too bad from a distance. Up close, I’d prefer to back up. But if it’s what you can afford, go for it. I’ve seen much worse.
Yes pleaseee mod this guitar. We would love to see you make this thing sound good. Pleaseee
Nut files should be "sellin' like hotcakes".
Most of these budget guitars just need a real setup.
Oh, sure if you want your guitar to sound like " a chainsaw buzzin' ", They probably need a pickup swap but a beginner can learn guitar on these.
Btw....an easy temporary fix to a guitar with a high nut height is to simply tune down a half step and capo the thing at the first fret and re-tune. Or do the same at fret #2 and tune down a whole step. Then the dots will be in a similar position.
Most folks really need some lessons more than they need a pricey axe.
Who’s buying hotcakes? 😝
@@landonbailey Free hotcakes with every Hiroshima nut file purchase!
Love your enthusiastic videos btw. 👍Keep em comin'
Folks ask why my guitars smell like maple syrup.
start w/ new strings and a setup before swapping pickups
These cheap guitars are great because you can take one and learn to do everything needed to make them top players. Jobs like replacing pickups, upgrading wiring and pots, tuners, fret leveling and even fret replacement can be easily done by the average home players thanks to these cheap guitars that have flooded the market these last few years. Now if you moved up slightly in the price point and checked out a guitar like the Donner semi hollow tele, for less than $150 a person can have a guitar comparable to the classic vibe series and some players series guitars right out the box.