TE-70RW Deluxe Series : Finally an affordable Telecaster I want to keep for myself

Couldn't be happier. When I received the guitar, the first thing I checked was string height above first free (nut setting). Perfect. String height overall was too high, but it was impossible to lower. The low E saddle was bottomed out. (PROPS for compensated brass saddles!!) I could see the neck angle was off, so I took off the neck and saw they already put in a couple of shims, but it was not enough. I added a shim and it fixed the string height and neck angle. A quick setup check revealed no high frets, and after replacing the string trees with roller trees and stringing it up with 9's, I was almost good to go. The neck needed some more relief, so I adjusted the truss rod. I was going to replace the tuners with locking tuners because I'm horrible at stringing, but the stock tuners work so well I don't want to change them. Now it's a badass Telecaster style guitar. I don't care about aesthetics, but it is beautiful.