TE-40 TBK Deluxe Series : Amazing guitar for the price.

I’m going to start off by saying this guitar is absolutely just as beautiful in person as in the pictures. Right out of the box (and after a quick tune up) it felt great in my hands and was exceptionally easy to play, although I did need to oil up the fretboard (which is expected with a new guitar) anyway.

It sounds beautiful, the Roswell pickups on this guitar are so clean and holds up well against bigger name pickups like Seymour Duncan and EMG, especially considering the massive price difference.

My only two gripes with this guitar so far are:

1. The pickup switch seems a bit intermittent when switching down to the bridge pickups. It usually works but sometimes the signal goes quiet, requiring me to flip it back up and down. Seems like a shoddy wiring job.

2. Not sure if this is a defect, but the frets on the guitar I got were not very in line with each other. Specifically, the 17th fret was a tad too high for some reason, causing the 16th note on the high E string to buzz and mute.

Overall, it’s a steal at this price, and with a quick setup from a good luthier, this guitar could very easily be a daily driver of mine.

Great job Harley Benton!