TE-52 NA Vintage Series : Insanely good for the money

I've been playing Jazz and blues for 30+ years and have always wanted a telecaster. Bought this on impulse and was not disappointed, it sounds and looks fabulous. I can't leave it alone and am grinning from ear to ear.

My other guitars are a 1998 Gibson ES175 and a late 80s Tokai high end Strat copy with Seymour Duncan SSL1s installed. This guitar holds its own next to them. There's a clean country twang on the bridge, a lovely biting clear mid position and rich woody neck tones.

The setup was pretty good: decent neck relief and intonation, the frets are all smooth and level and bends are free and easy all over the neck. The pickups are really good and the pots smooth and responsive. The only slight area for improvement is the tuners but that's a cheap and easy fix. This is a really decent instrument in its own right - at £129 it's an insanely good deal. That's less than a set of replacement pickups! Thoroughly recommended and well worth the month wait.