TE-20MN BM Standard Series : Incredible value for the price

I'm amazed with this guitar. It is very well made. To me the most important aspects in a guitar are the construction of the neck and body, since everything else can be swapped, and this guitar more than delivers. The neck has a great satin finish, it feels strong, has no rough edges, great wood grain, it's straight. The body is also made perfectly.

I was skeptical of some of its other features, but I was pleasantly surprised with certain components. The tuners are pretty fine, they're firm, sensitive and have no dead spots. The neck pickup sounds very good actually, I was planning on swapping it but I ended up liking it a lot. The volume and tone knobs are sturdy, they turn smoothly and make no noise. I was not very amused with the bridge pickup, it's not bad by any means, but nothing special, deserves an upgrade, although not urgently.

Now as for the downsides, the nut is pretty bad and unfinished, it still has some pieces of loose plastic from the string cavities, the strings get stuck sometimes with strong bends causing it to go out of tune, it definitely requires filing. The pickup selector switch is extremely hard, you really have to push that thing for it to move. The saddles look very cheap, I ordered some compensated brass ones. Some frets are a little rough on the edges, and require some polishing and crowning, but nothing major, doesn't deter from great playing. The pickguard and cavities need some shielding.

Honestly, for the price of this guitar I don't mind those little issues at all, in fact, I'm the kind of guy who loves to get a guitar and upgrade it myself, and smoothing the frets and edges with a foam sanding block just takes a couple minutes. That's why I'm giving this guitar a pretty much perfect score. This guitar is in my opinion much better than any other Telecaster I tried in the $200-$400 range, it just needs a little polishing and low investment and you have a serious quality guitar for an incredibly low price, a guitar for a lifetime.

I declare this guitar the modding platform of the gods. I just wish there was a cheaper option to ship to my country, I would buy a ton more.