** After 3 months and 30 watchers and 1700 views, no one bids $95 to buy a guitar all set up, sounds fine, plays great and is like a real old style Tele (before 'tummy cut' was thought of). I think that all those views and watchers over all that time are afraid to risk $100 on a guitar from a guy with 100% feedback here and 100% feedback on over 700 eBay transactions. Guys that afraid or cheap are not worth fooling with any more. I'll take the auction down in a couple of days and you can do what you want. I know what the guitar is and $100 is more than fair for any guitar that plays and sounds good and is unusual and cool. **



Pics 5-9 are sunlight photos ... notice the snug and well done pocket/neck heel fit. A tiny shallow dent in the top is hidden and that's about it ! Excellent looking Tele copy. Look below for my 'concentric pots' idea for a Tele.



At a rock-bottom price from a guy who has owned many dozens of guitars over 25 years and has 100% feedback in Reverb and eBay, listen up : this is a good guitar ! It's not light and it has no 'tummy carve' on the back edge, but is sounds damn good and plays really nice and nobody will have anything like it!



At $95 for a guitar set up and adjusted and in pristine shape and no pickguard as its design, you can't let go of modest money for it ?

We have these watchers and no guy has enough stones to commit a hundred dollars for a good Tele ? What is wrong with you ? My eBay feedback and Reverb feedback 100% a reason ! This is a good inexpensive guitar.



Stop waffling and buy the guitar and feel and hear for yourself !



What's wrong? I gave you the details and my pals hang out with Lindy. Short of a working pro repair guy, I'm that guy who can set them up and play them and recognize value in them.



Cozarts were made in S. VietNam and I was puzzled at first when they came out, but I took a chance on this. I figured the hardware and fit/finish and especially pickups would be low quality. They were brand new at the time and I took one just to see if they were a good project guitar. This one is much more than ordinary. If you like that old fat neck.... here ya' go !



I was wrong... real wrong to assume mediocre. The key word is VALUE.



This is a sharp looking, and rather good sounding Tele design with no pickguard. The neck pickup is loaded right into the body recess and sprung for adjustment. Typical controls and neck+bridge pickups and bridge hardware. The body is full thickness and weight and no 'tummy cut' at the back. This is an old fashioned Leo type Tele: basic, solid, plays and sounds raw and real!



I do like the 3-saddle bridge with the concentric guide grooves for the strings. Big ferrules at the back and Kluson type tuners, which are smooth. No, they are not Grovers or Schallers... this is an offshore well-made guitar with budget parts in some areas. Maple on maple neck with nice big frets was very lightly poly coated, with well dressed fret ends. I cleaned up the frets nice and smooth and the ends were smoothed (it takes a fret end file).



Good controls and the sturdy metal knobs are knurled and well-chromed... not like a USA Fender or even a sharp Squier Standard. But at a very budget price, you get a lot of guitar and I found a simple and really good way to make it 'scream' for cheap.



So here it is : a 'concentric pot' (outer ring for bridge and inner knob for neck pickup) allows you to make the tone control have 2 different pickups adjusted inside a single knob assembly. That means you can have a SEPARATE neck and bridge pickup tone control (for about $20)... but spend another $12 and get a 4-way switch to add a 'series' setting for both pickups on at once. Now you have a tone control with separate adjustment for each pickup alone and when both pickups are on (position 2 and 4) you can blend more treble in the neck pup and less in the bridge pup, for example. You really have all the tone control you would need ...and it is cheap to do and easy (get a setup guy for the wiring unless you are good at this already). My vote is to get a good set of pickups (like Rose or Tonerider or the Bakersfield from GFS) to show what it can be... stock pups are OK into a good amp. But well-made pickups would make it a head-turner on stage.



So, take my idea and use it with any Tele. What better Tele than one already set up, pickups adjusted, nut slots cut right and intonation set and easy to buy and it's barely even 'used' ? We seldom see a guitar that is unknown and it surprises us with its quality and looks and tone as well as affordability.



Here it is! West of Mississippi River, add $10 for shipping total.



Has fresh .010-.046 strings, but consider my fave set nowadays... .009-.046.











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