Upgrading a BUDGET Glarry Guitar | Axe From The Grave
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Budget instruments are usually fantastic modification platforms - they have a lot of untapped potential waiting to be teased out and if you mess it up then at least you didn't ruin an expensive guitar.
This Glarry Thinline Tele has a few issues that need fixed, so I took that as an opportunity to upgrade the whole thing.
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Budget instruments are usually fantastic modification platforms - they have a lot of untapped potential waiting to be teased out and if you mess it up then at least you didn't ruin an expensive guitar.
This Glarry Thinline Tele has a few issues that need fixed, so I took that as an opportunity to upgrade the whole thing.
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That accent wasn't that bad.
Colin's Southern American accent fluctuates between "quite good" and "not even close" but it's consistently hilarious xD
I can't do accents, being Scottish humps any possibility of sounding convincingly like anything else.
@@ScienceofLoud However, you have an accent NOBODY else can mimic, except for Jonny Lee Miller.
I about fell out of my chair when he said southern accent. I was like is that what he was going for?
I'm looking for "great rock bands I never heard of".
Anyone?
@@ScienceofLoud I dunno, most Scots could do a passable Ulster accent. Maybe not good enough to pass with the natives, but certainly we'll enough to scare the shite out of an Englishman.
This is technically “Axe from the Trailer Park” and not “Axe from the Grave” since it worked before the upgrades
Axe from the medical school cadaver lab
"Pretty in gold"
I am the only musician in my immediate and extended family. At least for guitar. My aunt plays the accordion on Christmas and knows a few Christmas songs, but that’s it. My nephew became interested in guitar and he’s 13, so I wanted to foster that spark of guitar and bought him his first rig. A Blackstar amp and a Glarry Strat copy. And a Line 6 effect board. The guitar came in and it was truly horrible. The action was half an inch off the board, the pickups sounded bad, the tuners would creak when you turned them and the nut was unplayable. So I threw in a set of Fender TexMex single coils, Fender locking tuners, got the action super low with light gauge strings and sanded the back of the neck to remove all that goop that made your hand stick. And a Graphtech nut finished off the setup. I had made a really nice guitar and had second thoughts about giving it to him! Lol I did but with the caveat he must return it to me if he decided not to continue with the guitar. That was six months ago and he is not only sticking with it, he’s becoming very good. It’s very rewarding to see a cheap ass guitar transformed into a real player. That $200 + $175 in upgrades was so money well spent
The black pick guard and the gold hardware changes everything. Amazing job man
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻👌🏻
I think I speak for all Americans when I say that your southern accent is a treasure
Southern accent?? My guy is scottish lmao
This is why we watch the whole video before commenting.
By treasure do you mean 'better off buried, never to be seen (or heard) again' ? 😋
As an American with a twangy accent; You fuckin nailed that southern drawl. The shifted 'ah' sounds were the only give away, but honestly, well done. Far better than my Scottish accent that I based on Willie from The Simpsons.
Love it!
I took a squire telecaster, cause the neck fit my hand really well and it was super cheap, and then dropped way too much money in upgrading it cause I wanted a project early in the pandemic. Fully adjustable babicz bridge, Seymour Duncan single coil sized humbuckers, all the electronics, locking tuners. Wasn't expecting it but honestly it's currently my favorite guitar I've ever had. And I've had much "nicer" guitars before.
If you have the parts, I strongly recommend a "half-out-of-phase" mod to the instrument. This involves a phase-reverse (typically the neck pickup), BUT with a bass-cutting cap in series with the neck pickup. With the bass content of the neck pickup reduced, you don't end up with the traditional nasal skronk and big volume drop. It yields a perfectly usable N+B sound that is audibly different than both pickups in phase, without ANY volume drop. Historically, it was used on the Jerry Donahue Tele to produce a Strat-like "cluck" but using only the two existing pickups without a 3rd middle pickup. I've done it on two guitars: one using SC pickups, and the other with a pair of Schaller HBs. Clearly, one can't get "cluck" from a pair of humbuckers, but the additional sound is *very* usable and sounds different.
You can do it with a push-pull Tone pot. Just wire the phase switch so that in-phase connects the neck pickup directly to the selector, and phase-flip connects it to the pickup selector through a cap. Something in the 10-100nf range should be good. You can experiment from there. The bass cut doesn't have to rob the neck of its guts, but it *will* sound a little more like a "normal" Tele single coil than a HB if you're only using the neck pickup.
Try it. Once you have it, I think you'll be as much of an evangelist for it as I am. Although I have to say the existing N+B tone on the instrument is VERY nice.
Do you know any wiring diagrams that show this wiring? I'd love to try it out
I’m a fan personally of the Bill Lawrence wiring mod, which uses a 5-way switch in Telecaster style instruments. It basically is the mod you just described. Every two pickup guitar with a blade switch that I own I wanna change to this. It’s that amazing. And the added neck pickup tone in position 5 is really cool, seldom do I use the regular tone, actually.
@@dicecard921 I posted a carefully crafted description of how to do it, but I don't know where the reply went. Possible it was sidelined because it contained a link to the diagram on an image-hosting site. I'll try again and see if I can get around the filters.
@@wolfwarren6376 Yes, it's a worthy addition, and kudos to the late great Billly Lorento for coming up with it. I'm surprised that it doesn't show up more often.
@@dicecard921 I posted a carefully-crafted description of how to do it, but somehow the post never "stuck". I'll try again. Here's the diagram: https: / / i.imgur.com/ARFZqUK.gif Make sure to omit the initial spaces in the URL, and make sure that whatever serves as your "black" wire in the neck pickup is isolated from the cover and baseplate. Feel free to experiment with cap values to strike a balance between too much and too little bass-cut. Higher values let more bass through, and smaller ones cut more bass. A nod of appreciation to Lindy Fralin, whose web-site provided the basic diagram that I liberally edited for this purpose.
I just built my own Thinline Tele similar to this! Did some stacked Seymour Duncan pickups, 4 way switch, CTS pots, treble bleed mod, graph tech nut/saddles. The thing plays great!
Barry is more important than humanity
What great timing. I had just unboxed mine when your video premiered. As always, an excellent video!
Colin,
Thanks to you, I bought the Glary featured in this video. No mods.
Even though I own 2 other more expensive electric guitars, I am fond of my red Glary. I purchased it used in a Chicago guitar store with a professional setup. $70
U.S.dollars.
For a beginner, senior citizen, with moderate hearing loss, the Glary is fun.
It's light at just under 6 pounds. As it's semi-hollow it resonates well enough to grab off the sofa and play it for a while. No amp needed even though I own amps. It quietly plays.
Amped up, it has a gravelly, throaty sound I can't describe. But I like that sound.
Light, pretty, fun sounds, easy to play neck, it's always handy reclining on my man cave sofa.
Maybe one day I'll learn how to mod it.
Thanks for the great videos.
Things beautiful, always look forward to these videos!! Thanks for uploading!!
Cheers for being a source and inspiration for these types of projects Colin 🤘
Yeah! Great job! I recently modded my Squier Tele. My $100 guitar has become my go to guitar! One BIG difference is the 4 way switch! That added tone is awesome!
Went from Texan to Oklahoman to backwoods Alabaman lol. As a Texan (and also partially a scot), I enjoyed this, and I think I might to something like this to my Pacifica PAC102s. It was my first electric and 26 years later, it’s still one of my favorite guitars.
"learn from my mistakes" is always the best video. Class act! And great work.
Your great bro. Your efforts are amazing and the video aspect of your films are just as great
Another fun video.
Thanks Colin.
@7:28 - Best ad break ever. I actually watched this rather than skipping over. A lot of these inexpensive guitars can be made pretty good with some guidance. Nice one Colin. :)
Great! Love the blues in your soul!
That southern American/ I don't what is comedy accent was funny! Great job
Great video and I love the montage!
Dude you pimped that think out! Nice job love the tone!
Nice job! Looks and sounds great
Nice! Definitely a great project and you did a great job on it! 😎👍
I love these kinds of videos. Awesome!
That southern American accent wasn't bad at all, and was exceptional for a Scotsman. Great video!
+1000 for not sanding off the logo.
"Its my guitar, I'm not ashamed of it"
I think the less glossy finish on the pickguard actually plays very well on camera. No distracting reflections! It's like looking at a pond through polarized glasses, except completely different in every way.
On occasion, I've been mistaken for being a guitar expert, despite what I say to the contrary, and get barraged with questions about what first guitar they should get for themselves or a loved one. The Look on the faces when I tell them to just get a Starter/Value pack and pay to have the guitar set up professionally is a little funny. But seriously, a good setup makes even the cheap axes sound pretty good. :)
Happy New Year. I generally do not like Telecasters, but this one looks and sounds great.
Just discovered your channel and have been binge watching.
Excellent content, and I'm currently working over a couple inexpensive Harley Bentons', and you're one helluva player!
I need to learn how to properly replace/fit a quality nut.
Nice work! 👍
I'mma be honest this is one of my favorite series.
Awesome video! I am in the currently working on the exact same Glarry red Thinline.
Thank you for honestly sharing the pain points, as well as the cool, (almost) finished product. Next time I work on a guitar, I'll have to tell myself, "Self, even Colin struggles when working on guitars!" 😆 👍🏻
Well done. Thank you.
Thanks for sharing.
Nice work!👍😎🎸🎶
I was expecting a bigger problem than a need up pick guard from that intro, but glad to see you're keeping your standards high on your work (which looks really good)
Sounds awesome
8:40 Ayla!
Your American is spot on, mate! Do a New Yorker next time😄
Hello Colin my friend, good to see you're doing well. I remember a video you made back in the day when you purchased a blue Danelectro Chorus pedal for about 15 quid and did a review on it. Curiously now that you're older (I'm 55 so I have more time behind me than in front of me) it seems to me that you are no longer as much of a metal guy as you used to be and I say this because I watch your vids and see you with guitars and amps that could be more oriented toward Rock and Blues-Rock than Metal, but I could be wrong. Cheers. Mike.
Thanks for that pickguard tip!! Im spending way too much time dulling my pickguards
Definitely improved the looks and sound
"dont rush and fuck things up worse"
i felt personally attacked here.
This content is some of my favorite on the internet.
Alos there is a certain kind of charm to hearing a Scottish man give his southern impression, lol. Im Southern and it gave me a good laugh
I've got one of these.. Its sunburst so looks pretty good regardless.. Great Maple neck and board out the box.. Left the electronics alone.. Replaced the tuners and nut.. Job done.. I use a Squire Strat for gigging but have the Tele as backup no problem..
Nice color choices.
Picked up an old Gibson telecaster at a brick and mortar store for nearly nothing a few years ago, fret buzz in a spot or two and a bad input jack are all it needs. Just getting parts together over time wife about the same goal in mind. replace the hardware with nicer stuff, and clean up the whole neck. Nice video man! great inspiration.
Had the same problem trying to remove a plastic nut from a cheap Harley Benton, I even broke a little chip off the wood... It was extremely frustrating.
Tips on painting guitars? Whenever I try it the paint ends up just kinda becoming powder. I sanded the gloss off the body, roughed the finish with 600 and 200 something grit SP and cleaned it with acetone before painting every time.
Great video. My only change would be to Fender 6in line double barrel lockers. I prefer the vintage look.
I gotta admit I think I enjoyed the guitareo ad almost as much as the video itself, LOL. You should do all your ads in different (bad) accents.
Lol, wonderful video Colin. The Guitareo sponsorship segment had me in tears, please do that more.
And I'd say the pickups made a measurable difference in the sound, as well. Nice choices, the tones are good.
Really nice! It's a shame about the pickguard, but at least you learned from it. Red, black, and gold is one of my favorite color combos on a guitar, and I plan on eventually giving that treatment to one of my guitars.
I don't know whether it would work with the rest of the guitar, but you could try what Ben Crowe did to the pickguard of the bass he built (directional sanding).
I like the gold replacement hardware on this one bro.
I got a Squier Affinity Strat HSS black with sparkly pick guard that I’ve had my eye on for ages. It’s a 2020 model with tremelo. I was thinking about doing the Iron Maiden mod on it but TBH it’s fine as is. Maybe I lucked out on this one ? And I’ll get another to do the mod !!
Great video mate as I appreciate these mod videos. Greetings from NZ
Those tones are really impressive. Amazing chime! I'm looking into that Alegree Esquire bridge pup for a build i'm doing. The clarity from the neck HB is great also.
What amp / model wete you running into?
My suggestion for the pickguard: order some black vynil wrap.
Step 1. Cut out an oversized shape of the original pickguard.
Step 2. Clean the original pickguard really well.
Step 3. Apply the wrap over pickguard. Start by wrapping the edge furthest away from you and slowly come towards yourself. Use a flat, non-abrasive edge (like a thick card) to lay and smooth out the wrap as you lay it down towards yourself. Don’t place it all all at once! Use the card as the application tool while you hold the unwrapped sections up until you lay it down completely.
Step 4. Use an Exacto knife to cut off any excess, around holes, cutouts, and edges.
Boom! There you go! 😊
You should bring back that Scottish cowboy feller to do more videos! Man I'd buy anything from that guy.
Woah great job! Looks like my dream guitar :) even when I'm a metalhead I love telecasters, I have a RockJam cheap strat guitar and I made it look like a fender custom shop but still needs adjustments. Still great job!
As a man of the South, I approve the accent wholeheartedly.
The heat gun is a great idea. I will try a hairdryer next time. I have a rubber mallet that I use on the edge of the nut. Prying these out with a knife or pliers tends to make them break in two pieces. That's been my experience. Hopefully the wood doesn't take too much of a blow when I aim for the corner of the top of the nut on the bass side where it usually sticks up more preominently.
Carefully, a couple more videos like this and you're going to convince me to try salvaging my highschool bass 😅
14:46 : Good string bend
About to hand cut a new pickguard for an old guitar of mine, that mistake of yours saved me from messing up the beveling process
Colin, it's comforting to know that you're as bad at my accent as I am at yours😂
I'm gonna try a Scottish accent for my next D&D character and I wanna do your accent but it's sooo hard not to go straight into Shrek with a Kentucky inflection
Looks great, sounds better.
I have my eye right now on a second hand LTD EC10 in red for $100AUD.
Pretty decent on it's own - but I'm considering locking tuners, better nut and maybe a GFS quick-connect wiring kit so I can use it to mess around with different pickups.
Maybe P90-ish neck, hotter HB in bridge or dual P90's etc. Maybe try out their lipstick pickups and filtertron equivalents.
Plus I'll likely paint it if I end up getting it.
I've done more custom paint than I have performance mods on guitars.
I was already going to Like the video but as soon as your sponsor song started I had to do it immediately. 😂🤣
Upgrading an inexpensive guitar for one's personal playing satisfaction is a satisfying endeavor... however, realize that adding improvements to a originally inexpensive guitar (Say a $200 USD with $400 USD improvements ) doe snot increase the intrinsic value of the guitar very much... perhaps your original $200 guitar might now be worth "$300 USD" if you attempt to sell it...
Who was that smooth American who voiced your sponsor?
im just going to say it, i fucking love your videos!~
mans just spoke fluent american for like 2 minutes
Colin’s southern American accent was pretty darn good
Theres actually a third modification. A "tactile" modification. Improving the feel of something.
Ordered my son a sjc custom drum kit but the snare was delayed. grabbed a glarry snare off Amazon for £12. I wrapped it in glitter wrapping paper (get the joke?) sanded the ends down to make them flat because apparently that's to hard for the factory to do and fitted some remo skins. Sounds nice enough for him to keep as a side snare
Ya know, Colin, for someone as unspeakably Scottish as you are, that southern accent wasn’t half bad!
Is it ok to sand down the fret side of a maple neck? A Fender Strat Ultra to be exact. Can not seem to find someone who has done so and I do not know enough about necks to just go for it. A little too expensive to mess up and replace. It is "sticky" to me, and I feel sanding it may help to make it not as sticky. Kind of like the back side of the neck. You sand it down to get a smoother feel. Thanks!
So how did those crimson products work for you? The fretboard restoration on the cleaner for the neck and all that? I also have a glarry and I'm looking to finish the neck in some sort of ways up as well but not with like a polyurethane or anything. Did these products provide a nice finish for you overall on the neck and fretboard? I am looking into buying these products if you think they did work well and you would recommend!
Beauitiful video, What are the plastic 'Clothes pegs' i see you attach after your headstock on the string?
Do you mean the Jimmy Clips? czcams.com/video/wM5bc9i7l4o/video.html
@@ScienceofLoud I do indeed! i want to get into guitar the new year coming so please forgive me for my lack of knowledge. I am thinking of getting a " Ibanez GRGA120-WH GIO " do you have any knowledge on this guitar? Loving rewatching your videos - I guess it's time to learn about Jimmy Clips!
Colin I was so not ready for that southern accent, I'm FROM the south and I gotta say not bad my friend... but seriously Jesus christ that freaked me out hearing you without your beautiful Scottish accent just feels so wrong lmao
My favourite kind of thing : modding the hell out of a cheap instrument ❤️
I have modified my Harley Benton TE-20 with a 4-way-switch and a push/pull, the single coils and pots swapped, you guessed it. So now in position four, I can operate the two single coils in series, the p/p is for phase inversion.
Both serial mode and phase inversion require your neck pick up to have three wires, so the cap of the neck PU is connected to the ground separately.
Is it possible to get those in between strat sounds?
@@bpabustan Well, the closest is the normal parallel mode of the two single coils, but that's the same as on any Tele-style. You'd have to get a Nashville Tele, or what that Tele with a Strat middle PU is called, it's one of those cities in Tennessee.
The phase inversion sounds are unique and the two pick-ups in series sound like two single coils in series in my opinion, it's a sound I like. The phase inversion sounds only work in parallel and in series, the neck pick-up inverse alone sounds the same as normal. Neck pick-up inverse parallel to the bridge PU is pretty thin, in series it's a cool sound.
@@achimdg6335 thanks for the reply :-)
Man, if I'm gonna put more work into the guitar than the factory put into it, that damn "Glarry" name is coming off. Perfect place for my initials.
Boy I have to say it: Colin, your videos *do* are viable to the ever changing whims of the CZcams algorithm.
I just noticed something: is that a tuner attached to the Thinline's headstock?
Did you have to do anything to the bridge pickup route? I was going to put a Fender bridge plate on it but found that the hole for the pickup was in a slightly different spot compared to the stock bridge and the pickup is a millimeter or two outside the bridge route. I didn't have my Dremel last time I messed with it and ended up putting that bridge plate on a different project.
What is the black bar that you have behind the nut of the guitar?
Inspired
Why not use a Dremel and sanding/polish wheels for the fret ends? Got that from Guns’N Guitars and I’ve been doing it that way on some of my projects
That seems like a vastly over engineered solution to a very simple problem.
Would be kinda quicker and easier maybe even cheaper to just buy a better guitar. But don't let that put you off, it's great fun building custom stuff.
Any idea what the radius is ? Can't google up the info . Cheers (hoping for 9.5)
Love your videos man also really love your accent. I also had this same exact guitar but like a dummy I sold it because I needed money now I've been kicking myself in the butt ever since I guess I'll have to get another one. I'm one of the few that actually likes g l a r r y guitars.
Interestingly I bought the exact same model and color of this Glarry guitar for around $80, and totally frankensteined it. Bolted on a roasted maple neck I bought on Reverb, installed locking tuners, carved my own bone nut, swapped the stock bridge for a Wilkinson 3-saddle bridge, installed a better bridge pickup and a P-90 in the neck. It plays super nice and has a versatile range of tones. Total investment around $250, punches way above its weight!
Brass nuts are essential equipment during this cauld spell!
That accent was hilarious. I was rolling on the floor.
As a person from South East Louisiana, the accent was on point lol
I feel alone on this, but the bridge w 6 brass saddles is what i would want. I dont like the 3 brass saddle ones, i feel like i cant get the guitar intonated perfectly. Its always off a hair and i have hearing loss thats made it difficult to put up with a guitar with intonation issues. But hey that may just be me. But i liked that one with the 6 brass you showed, i think im gonna buy one like that. Thanks :-) and Thanks for the videos :-)