Malden Mozak

Maple neck - Rosewood Fretboard - The tuners are like mini Gotoh's (nice). Tele pickups with an ashtray on a heavy jazzmaster body. Three saddle bridge. Despite the three saddle bridge; my mozak intonates perfectly.

Cool retro guitar.

I wanted it to sound like a Tele. It;s much brighter than a Tele. I have a Standard, Thinline and Nashville Tele and the Mozak is much brighter. I wanted a warmer out of phase sound from both pickups and the tone is super spanky rock and roll bright. With a compressor the popping of some licks nearly takes your head off. It would be a great rock and roll guitar but I was hoping for a warmer Fender sound. I still dig it.

The neck is fantastic. If you have played the PRS SE Korean guitars (the fit and finish on the PRS guitars is super) the Mozak is as good as the PRS SE's that I've had. The intonation is perfect all over the neck. I could record with absolute confidence with the Mozak because the neck and intonation are so good.

Built like a tank. I bought mine on ebay and I took it out of the box and lifted the weight. Wow. It must be 7 pounds or more. All the mechanical parts are very nice.

No clue.

I'm a Tele lover and I have a Jazzmaster. I've wanted one of these ever since Guitar Player Magazine did a great review of them two years ago. I snagged myMozak for $175 on ebay and I feel like a kid on his birthday. Super happy.

I think the body is Alder or Basswood...the neck is one piece maple and lovely. Fretbord is rosewood (i can't stand a maple fretboard in general, I have know a few tolerible teles. This basicaly and Jaguar with tele pickups and ashtray...I ways liked the 3 brass saddle set up on vintage teles, and this is the same. I did however have orginals replaced with pigtail compensated saddles for better intontaion. It is a very vintage style guitar waht you see is what you get, I like that. Simple contols. The frets are thin, not like my DOT which has fatter frets, the next frets very easy. I like it

I play 80's based alternative, the cure, echo and the bunnymen,the church ect. Jangle/Brit pop via shoegazer/the replacements circa. TIM x alt country. The PUP's on this sound great, warm and natural. I have a DOT that I put Rio Grande bastards in, the Malden PUPs are not nearly as hot so I can use more amp volume and drive my tubes more...I like that...I supose I could just turn down my DOT...turn down? what am I saying? Sounds much like a telecaster more like a 1980's Japanese one that I used in the studio in '04 rather than a new stanard American. I prefer the Japanese(better craftsman ship and quiality I think). Nothing that I do not like about it. I play it through a '93 fender blues deville 4x10 I use a alot of delay, chours and recently bought a clone ross compressor that has made all the diffrence...but that has notthing to do with the guitar...bottom line is it sounds good.

I bought this from Adirondak Guitars...it came with very crappy strings and the action was way to high. It was well intoneted though After a proper setup at my man Gregg's shop at BCR it was rocking and or rolling. Played much better. This guitar plays much like a friends '62 pre CBS telecaster...the neck is chunky...my bandmate plays new standard mexican tele's...I hate the feel of the neck it just does not feel good...seems cheap...the Mozak feels vintage and good...

I only played it out once but it definately has a quaility that I think surpasses my epiphone, epiphone is built like a tank...tonally challenged but tough...There is more refinement and craftsman ship palced in to this than my DOT. Strap buttons have that felt under them, which is a nice touch...I sure hope it with stands the abuse of the road as I in tend to use it as my main guitar and retire my DOT to back up or use for those lotta feedback songs as it is a hollowbody. It is too soon to acknowlege wether this guitar will stand up to the test of time...I sure hope so...I would use this guitar with out a back up but now that I have a back up, I feel that would be foolish.

I called malden and got a machine the message is loud, the voice shouts and sounds angry...I just want to get some specs but was afraid of who would call me back.

Overall for the money you can't go wrong at all...in my opnion this guitar out shines any standard fender (yuck) so if you are looking for something in the bolt on neck genre of guitar you can't go wrong...I would love try the liquid which has two p-90s...In my opinon this a great guitar for the quid...it is defiantaly professional material and studio quality. I would recomend it to any looking for basic electric that is of pro quaility and does not break the bank.

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Features are as mentioned below but right handed version and also made in Korea. Beutiful Sunburst finsh. Simple and very unique looking.

This guitar took a while for me to get used to the Tele sound. I actually compared it side by side with a freind who has teles' equiped with Fralin, Fender vintage noiseless and vintage pickups and this guitar sounded great to both our ears. We did change the pots out and I believe it sounds even better now. I own a strat, G&L ASAT, Gibson Les Paul DC, and a Japanese strat. This has become my 1st choice guitar for playing out.

The set up was acceptable out of the box but I like to set action higher and mess with intonation. It is difficult with the standard tele style bridge to get good intonation so I brought into a local guitar tech who did a great job setting it up. the finsih is superb, the neck is a little chunky which I like, frets are finished nicely, but it does have a flatter radius than I was used to that takes a while to appreciate.

It's a gigging maniac guitar. I play it everywhere from Churches to noisey bars. Seems like it holds up well. It has a different body shape that does not fit into my guitar stand well and it has fallen hard many times without any major problems occuring. To me that meens it's durable. The chips and nicks since the falls makes it look much more "vintage" so to speak. I used to always bring a back up but not anymore. I haven't even broken a string yet and had about 10 months.

Not yet.

been playing for 30 plus years, into blues, classic rock, contemp., celtic rock, jazz and acoustic music. I usually run this through a gibson GA15 RV, & tube screammer. Sounds great. It is a very unique looking insturment. Everyone always asks what it is and always comments that it sounds great. I am very pleased and hope it never gets lost or stolen. It's a keeper. For the money, a lot less than what I paid for any of my other guitars, you can't go wrong.

2004 - made in Korea. Lefty. Tele-style pickup configuration w/AlNiCo pickups. Bridge pickup ohms out at 7.5k and neck 7k. Chrome covered neck pickup. Ashtray bridge unit with 3 brass saddles - ala Tele. String-through body. Beautiful sunburst finish on a light basswood body. Body style is similar to a Jag. Decent sealed tuners. Comes strung with D'Addarios.

I like classic rock and blues. This guitar is great for that. I'm playing though a Vox AD30VT. Guitar is pretty quiet for single coils. Stock it sounded a bit bright and hot. It was cool, but not exactly what I was looking for. Learned that it comes loaded with 500k pots. Changed those out to 250k and used an Orange Drop .022 UF cap on the tone control, and now I get the tones I want from this guitar. Fret dress was good. Nut seems a bit soft. I might change that out later. The guitar played really well right out of the box. Also, the pots were wired lefty, and that doesn't work worth a crap with audio taper pots. They need to be wired reverse (or righty) so they actually do something. Going to notch it to an 8 just because of those 500k pots (which were also wired backwards). These were minor issues for me.

Action fit and finish were all great. Didn't have to tweak anything. The guitar looks beautiful! Nut could be a higher quality. It's still very playable. I found no finish flaws on it anywhere.

I think this will hold up just fine. Solid guitar and decent value.

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I've been playing since 1984. I really like this guitar. My first Tele-style pickup configuration and I really like it a lot. I really like how this guitar looks too. I prefer this style over a Tele, in fact. I'd buy another if I had too. I think the suggested retail of $544 is high. The $380 street price is the top end of reasonable. I feel quite confident in the deal I got on this guitar. I feel like I got my money's worth. ($300 delivered)