It has been two weeks and still no fret sprout. So far so good. I added a link on how to fix it if yours develops a issue

Lesson learned. The player and the amp are WAY more important than the guitar.

He looks at the guitar and you can just see the sadness in his eyes as he thinks about all the $1000+ dollar guitars he's bought compared to this one

What's even funnier is they give you that free stuff on a guitar that $65 and yet you get nothing when you pay hundreds even thousands

I bought 3 of these guitars for my grand kids I couldn't believe how good they were for the price and believe it or not it stays in tune

Wait, I have to invest in a pencil too? Now you've gone too far!

Buy the guitar and spend the savings on lessons...

I can't stop laughing at how cheap and good guitars have gotten in 36 years.

These guitars are so cheap, you almost want them to be bad ("I regret to say...") and I am the exact same. I don't know why though. Is it to justify all the expensive guitars we've bought?

Pretty soon the manufacturers are going to be paying us !

Nice! Reviewing guitars so that you can get them in the hands of kids. That’s KZfaq done right.

I’d like to try my hand at refinishing, this would be perfect.

When your strat copy sounds identical to your USA strat

Phillip, make more videos like this... pleeeeeeze!

Kudos for hooking up the after school program!! 💕

Really enjoy your basic reviews like this as a balance to the more complex vids (Tech/5 things). Nice Win/Win with this one.

How I wish 65 dollar guitars looked and played this good when I started playing over four decades ago. I love that new players get to start with something that looks and sounds very good. Great review, Phil.

That’s just nuts!! Looks, sounds, plays decent and $65???? Really hard to justify Fender etc when the price dif is so out of line.

The donation is awesome. And i actually really like seeing you do the budget reviews cause i trust it to be honest good or bad.

Great review Phil! Thanks as always!

We need more companies like this. Decent affordable instruments that encourage more use. The next Clapton, Vai, Van Halen or Holly could be waiting just for the opportunity. Good, honest review. Thanks and keep up the great work.

Thanks Phil! After watching the video, I went to the Glarry website. They are having a Thanksgiving sale. The solid color red and blue are only $59.99 free ship! Oh yeah..they do hit you with a $2.99 insurance charge. So, $62.98 delivered. A red one is on it's way to my house.

Great video! I hope this gets shared a lot as it will be encouraging to those who are wanting to try electric guitar, or have a kid or friend who does! Also great to hear about the donation. Sounds like the company are good people! ✌🏻🎼🎸

Thats a kind thing you did phillip its one of the reasons i follow you as you believe in doing what you can to get guitars into young kids hands.

8:10 - Phil provides tips that EVERY guitar needs - a tuner and lubing the nut - not just that $65 Glarry. BTW, the swap back and forth with your American ... the Glarry had a better low end in my Sennheisers 😱

That guitar is definitely a great deal for a beginner that's on the fence about starting to play guitar and also someone who wants to learn guitar repair/customization. Great job Phillip!!!

Sold American! Thanks for the honest review and A/b with USA strat. This is perfect Xmas gift for my niece.

Such a straight shooter Phil. Skeptical, understandably, yet willing to say you're impressed with something that goes above and beyond. This is so important for people starting out, when someone of your knowledge and skill set can point out the true positives and negatives and not color your opinions by being a snob to your values and needs. I'm not only impressed with this guitar (as a practice axe for the luthier-type work I seriously need), but with you and your ability to point out all the issues and share all the related information. It's a reason I'm a fan. Thank you!!!

You’ve got a big heart ❤️ Phil!

When I was starting (50 or so years ago) cheap guitars were absolutely crap. Virtually unplayable. Back then every guitar required a lot of "by hand" craftsmanship. Now, it does not matter if the guitar costs $3K or $300 - the CNC machines cut all parts to the same accuracy. You may have cheaper quality woods, frets, electronics, bridges, finishes, etc, and you may find that they don't stand the test of time, but to get started, you can get a completely playable guitar at the low end. And I agree 100% that it is a great way to practice your skills in dealing with things like treating fret sprout, leveling, etc. Today, one of my favorite guitars to play started life as a Squier Affinity Telecaster. It cost about $170 CDN. Since I bought it, I've upgrades the tuning machines, PUs, and nut (all of which cost a lot more than the original guitar cost), and did my own fret job to make it feel super smooth. I also buffed off the gloss finish on the neck which makes it feel like heaven. I would not likely have contemplated work like this on a guitar I paid $1000+ for, but for this one, it is like "what have you got to loose". It had good bones.

Hi Phillip! Great to give some love to the budget minded musicians! Pretty cool and Thanks for Sharing Brother! Be Well!

Your integrity is why I value your reviews so much. You call it honest. The quality and selection of budget guitars these days is RIDICULOUS! What a great time for people just starting out or even for older players branching out to try new brands/shapes/styles. The good options we have are a tremendous blessing. It's a far better situation than when I started with my 1985 Sears catalog Harmony Crapcaster and Gorilla 10 watt amp. I hated is so much I quit trying for 25 years. What a time to be alive!

I have a Les Paul that I'm extremely satisfied with, but have also wanted a Stratocaster or Strat style guitar for the triple single pickups. Purchasing even a Squire is outside of my ability, but this guitar is likely doable. Thanks for the heads up and review!

Dude. I actually love that headstock shape

Great guitars for the price ! I own their P bass and am thrilled with how good it is ! Thanks Phil, I hope you had a great Thanksgiving !

Loved the mods you did on it. I had a 1991 Fender Strat Ultra and the color reminds me so much of that guitar.

I bought the Burning Fire (black), love it, even though it needs love and attention to detail. Knew it would need work, but that is why I bought it. To tech it out and have fun doing it!!

This is top quality content. Thank you for putting so much love and passion into your videos.

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 So AWESOME of you to hook up Andrew for his music program.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I checked out Glarry's site and I am impressed at how many finish options there are. I'm sure there are tons of young players (and adults) looking for a zebra stripe or skull print guitar on a budget. Something that Squier doesn't offer. As far as the sound/tone, the Glarry obviously didn't have the depth of your Fender, but for what it is, it works. Great review!

What a great narrative on the Glarry. As an older, beginning player, there's an overwhelming amount of choices of inexpensive guitars. It makes your head want to explode...your video has helped me to decide to someday get the Glarry...to learn how to work on guitars.

thank you for this interesting unboxing & review , I'm a new subscriber as of today , liked & shared ! Cheers !

4:45 my jaw on the floor. Bang! I caught myself selling expensive gear and bought cheap ones that sound the same in tha last years.

I am so glad that you made this video. My 8 year old expressed that he wants an electric guitar for Christmas and this looks ideal for a young starter.

Great review Phillip!!! 👍🎸

Philip.. I have followed you for some years, and the one thing I LOVE about you is your amazing honesty and integrity. You could have dissed this guitar and put it down, but you didn't. As someone else said, the look on your face when you played it compared to your Strat.. Priceless! Fender and Gibson will still stay in business, but thanks to companies like this, hundreds of kids can now afford a "Strat" and one that SOUNDS like a Strat!

This is nuts. How is this possible? Especially the sound comparison to the fender holy crap man

You do a great service, the information you present appears unbiased and very valuable. I taught in public schools for years, not music though, and many students knew I played and would come to me to figure out songs for them, give little impromptu lessons or advice. I can't tell you how many times times kids would have an inexpensive, but playable, guitar and they would not really practice until they got the Gibson, Fender or other "name" guitar that their idol was playing. It was like owning the brand guitar would bring out the great guitarist in them. So much wasted practice time. Again, you do a great service.

The strat with the rosewood neck looks amazing.. but the other one SOUNDs amazing

this should go on the next sharpen my axe. make this thing amazing.

I'm listening on my phone but I can tell you man it almost sounded exactly alike as your $2,000 fender that's just crazy man. I'm the dude in the mobility scooter that met you at Guitar Center one time I hope you're well man thanks for doing these. It's not the easiest thing to just make videos and pump them out the way you do and we really appreciate this stuff out here. So is there a link to buy one? I guess I'll check online.

An excellent video, thanks for posting. I've been learning acoustic for a little over a year now. Time for my first electric. After this review and after they got on board with helping a teacher, I'm headed to the website linked above to place an order.

This is definitely on my radar now I’ve been wanting a cheap guitar to learn how to do repairs and upgrades

Clearly there is a bunch of money going towards the name on the headstock.

I'd like to see you do an upgrade on a Glarry guitar!

Looks and sounds good!

Good work, thank you !

Hi, Phil. When you do these reviews of inexpensive guitars could you check to see if the truss rods work? Some work, but some just spin.

If it plays and sounds half decent it already looks awesome, man for $65 you can't go wrong.

The finish on it to me is worth that. Love the color!

Hey Phil! Great video, man. Those Glary guitars are a lot of fun to mod. They are surprisingly solid- I've built a few lower end partscasters using those as the base. There's some really inexpensive strat style guitars on ebay- sometimes you score, sometimes they suck, but they are a lot of fun to mod. Indio guitars are too. Thanks for sharing!

I wish I had these kind of options when I started out,......all I had when I was 17 years old was a Harmony electric that came from Service Merchandise,.....in the showroom. Followed by an old all black Hondo Strat copy.

Everyone complains about them being dinged up but I personally like the look of a bashed and beaten guitar

I have to say I'm impressed all the way around from price to aesthetics to tone.

Impressed me. It's really pretty and sounds pretty good!

Your videos literally cure my anxiety. I don’t know what it is, probably your personal and affectionate conveyances and relatable mindset. You really help, Phillip. Thank you.

Dude. I'm not lying that thing sounded MORE like the strat USA than I can imagine for the 2000 price saving. Holy crap. Hahaha

Wow. Very cool. Thanks for always keeping it real, Phillip.

I bought the same guitar without any brand on the headstock off eBay (I believe Glarry just resells these) with a plan to make it a project guitar. The bridge pickup was so impressive for the price and it played so well out of the box I almost didn't want to mess with it! But in the end, two $7 humbuckers, a fret leveling job, a nut cut and a handmade pickguard later, I have a baritone tuned strat that just kills and yes, stays in tune for an eternity.

Well just finished setup on my new Glarry Strat. It is not one of my Gibson's but for the money you can't go wrong. I wish my 1st guitar was this good. Get one you will be shocked how good it is.

Dang, I remember when I got my Squire for about $140 new, and it still works like a charm for me. Something like this for that price is without a doubt up the alley for those on a budget! Awesome showcase!

Great job Phil!

Think you have given them a very fair review.Thanks

I must admit, I was favorably impressed; didn't really expect to be.

I’m trying to break myself from being tempted by guitars like this. I have a few pretty nice guitars to gig with. I decided that I don’t need all these cheap guitars I see on KZfaq. I keep telling myself there is no Reason for me to have around 20 guitars. I have 8 that I consider good guitars. Dumped the squiers, Amazon firefly, guitar fetish stuff. I see this video and half way through I start thinking “it could be cool to buy a $30 loaded pick guard with alnico pickups, mayb some $18 locking tuners. Just make a super low budget banger guitar. So far I’m resisting the urge. Great video.

That's a beautiful guitar...sounds good...a steal

This was a great video, thanks.

If I had this level of started guitar, at this price point a few decades ago, I definitely would be the second coming of Hendrix by now... XD Seriously, ain't free market competition awesome? Phil, ya gotta do a Pepsi Blindfold Tone challenge!

Your body language at the beginning was negative on the guitar. But, you were fair and objective. NIce job.

I bought 2 of these strictly to mod and practice neck reshaping. They are great for the money out of the box, and great for modifying, practicing things like refinishing & the necks feel really great for the money.

You're references to "Department Stores" was a good way not to anger Harley Benton. Bravo. Seriously.. love the vid.

I'm surprised at how I noticed no difference in sound but again this is through youtube. I'm sure feel is much different, but the sound was comparable to your USA strat.

That blue with the black pick guard looks 👌

Really liked the AB you did against your own Strat. I was hoping you'd continue it throughout the video. Great review though. Keep up the great content.

Great review bro and I have to say I love my glarry strat and can't put it down. 😊👍

Look at that thin neck. It sounds just as good as his strats

Yay, Phil! We finally get your take on these Glarry's. I have had mine since before they switched the headstock shape. It's great. I did swap out hardware, because I prefer black hardware...but the pickups I liked enough not to swap them out. It is extremely fun to play, because I have no worry of damaging it (although I would not want to damage it lol). It's that only guitar under $400 USD that I own. 🤘🎸😎

Love the color! 😎

I'd love to hear Yngwie shred on it!...

Was very surprised how close the sound was to the fender. Not sure if that says alot about glarry's quality or fender's.

Phil has massive chops love that accented playing so juicy

Nice Review Rock On Brotha

Several months ago a neighbor brought me an "S" type guitar his wife had given him as a gift. He now wanted to take some lessons. The problem was the thin neck had the worst 'twist' in it I had ever seen!! I've seen some doozies to!! Over the years I've built a stash of parts from fire sales, going out of biz, discontinued stuff etc. just for this purpose. I removed the neck and cleaned up the pocket with a template and router. Installed a Mighty Mite neck w/vintage tint ($60), Grover 205 mini roto's ($47), Stew-Mac basic 3S loaded pick guard ($38.50) and a Wilkenson WV2 trem bridge ($40). The neck still didn't sit in the pocket right, so I used a Stew-Mac 1d shim ($8.50) to make straight. The set up required a level/crown/polish, and I spent a couple hours with scrapers, fret files, nut slot files etc. These are good people and work hard for not much money so I gave them my time, and parts at cost. His $70 guitar now plays great, and looks/sounds pretty good to! $194 in parts, to)tal $264. I'm quite sure you could not buy the same quality guitar for $300!! My 'customer' was quite happy with it. Me too. 8) --gary .

I bought one and it got BETTER the more I played it. Unbelievable really.

Seems to me like the perfect instrument to test mods and pickups with before putting them in nicer instruments. Also a good guitar to learn refinishing techniques.

What makes it so light is the bridge and block and the tuners. I added a half pound (8 oz.) to mine by changing both out. Now its a little over 7 ponds.

Fender made in mexico bridge will drop right in!!

Phil do a wolf brand guitar. Preferably a wprs model please

Holy crap! That actually sounds good!!

I bought one back before they changed the headstock from the Fender style. I liked the green body and it looked even better than the photos when I got it. The clear coat was cracked on the back between the neckplate and the spring cover. I wanted a replacement, but they were out of the green version, so I decided to keep it because the wood grain looked really good. BTW, the wood on mine was not "Basswood", but it was Paulownia (Empress Wood). It looks just like Ash and is as light as a feather. They refunded $10 due to the cracked finish. Pickups were very weak and anemic sounding, so I hit eBay and bought some Alnico 5 replacement pickups for $15 (per set) and also picked up a replacement pickguard in green mother of pearl for $9 and a couple of roller trees ($2). The logo on the headstock was scratched, so I scraped it off easily with a razor blade and replaced it with a gag one that I printed out on some decal paper. I had decided to put some finish on the neck while waiting for all the replacement parts to arrive, so I wiped on a Tru-Oil finish in about 6 coats over a few days. That was a first for me and it turned out absolutely great. The neck looks great and it looks just like it was lacquered, but has a silkier feel. Eventually the parts arrived and I put it all back together. I'd wanted to use a "big block" trem on it, but the routing was insufficient to allow travel, so I just used the original tiny blocked pot metal unit. Was it worth it all? YES! With a good set up, it plays effortlessly and the neck is actually one of the better "C" carves I've come across. Nut width is 42mm and the string spacing is good, so the neck is an overall pleasure to play. The improved pickups gave it some beefy chime and the Empress Wood body imparts a really interesting "Thhh" quality to the string attack that is very pleasing in its "woodiness" in the sound. The whole guitar only weighs a little over 4 pounds and has a very "homey" feel and a warm & thick sound. I'm glad I bought it and after a little added love and minimal effort it is great for recording and just kicking back with while playing through a little Class A tube amp.......

My friend’s dad gave me a fake hendrix strat that he didn’t want, a few days ago we opened up the pickguard and realized the people who made it were too lazy to clean the saw dust in the pickup holes. They literally painted over the sawdust.