TE-52 NA Vintage Series : Good guitar for the money

I was a little skeptical but guitar has very good price/quality ratio.

I will start with impressions.

-Very nice body and neck finish. Hand slides on neck like charm. body looks like a dream and everything just looks like much higher priced instrument.

-1ply thick pickguard- not a minus for me.

-Classic style bridge that works fine, pretty good intonation for 3 barrel saddles.

- Switch and pots works fine. Nothing to be afraid about.

- Pickups are great. Very good classic sound with good clarity thanks to alnico. Bridge pickup has very good output which is desirable with tele.

- Good soldering job.

- No sharp frets. Pretty good level across whole neck. Very nicely polished.

- Nut is ok. With some graphite from pencil it will do job just fine.

Now the bad sides.

- My tuners are awful. They are pretty hard to turn but they seem to hold tune. I think i'm gonna replace them but not for this reason.

-Holes for the screws in headstock that holds tuners were too big. Under a tension from strings tuners were just very unstable. I had to glue all 6 of them with some wood toothpick inside. Now there's no problem. If that would be modern tuners there would be no issue but these tuners are hold in place thanks to screws on back of the headstock.

- Bridge is slightly misplaced. Maybe 2-3 millimeters. Holes from body doesn't align with bridge and strings are not perfectly in the middle of the neck.

General impressions. Great guitar for the money. It requires some work but after that we get instrument that other manufacturers have for 3 times more money.

It isn't flawless but it gets job done. No one should be disappointed with that kind of sound.