TE-20MN CA Standard Series : Great Guitar!

I've had this guitar now for almost half a year and I love it. When I first got it was almost near perfect. The frets were not sharp at all and everything about the guitar was pretty awesome. The pickups were a bit noisy and muddy sadly, but given that this was a sub 100 dollar guitar, you can't really complain about it.

I bought this mostly to build a super tele if you will on the cheap. I was also going to do some wear and tear on the body and neck of the guitar, but once the guitar got here, I didn't want to do that anymore. The red just pops and is complimented by the pickguard. I would rather have it wear through years of playing now than to artificially do it.

The mods that I've done on this guitar so far have totaled over 4 times as much as the guitar is worth and I love it. The original set of tuners were good but I wanted locking tuners, and the nut I wanted to replace with something better as it was plastic. This is the mods list for the guitar so far:

Hipshot Locking Tuners

Graphtech String Tree

Graphtech Nut XL

DiMarzio Straplocks

Wilkinson Tele Bridge

EMG T System

If you do plan on replacing the pickups you'll most likely need to widen the hole for the pickups on the pickguard if you plan on changing it over to EMG's. The original bridge does not fit an EMG pickup at all and the guitar body needs to be dremeled/cut away a little bit for the pickup to sit right in the body and also fit the Wilkinson bridge. I plan on doing a more outrageous mod later on though as I want to send my guitar into Evertune for a bridge to be fitted in there.

The TLDR:

Pros:

-Great mod platform

-No fret ends

-Holds tune

-Is amazing out of the box

Cons:

-The original pickups are a little muddy and on the dirty channel have a lot of feedback

-Changing the pickups required widening the hole on the neck position of the pickguard (At least with EMG's, and original bridge will not fit an EMG in there)