TE-20 SB Standard Series : Very good for the price

This turned up in surprisingly playable condition. Not too heavy, hardware is acceptable, frets are ok...sounds like a telecaster. For €89 this is very, very good, although there will inevitably be a few less than perfect details in any guitar at this price.

I do guitar repairs and setups and I had a few spare bits around so I spent some time tidying this up. I put on a 3ply pickguard, which instantly made it look less cheap, and put in some Wilkinson Vintage tele pickups I had handy. Did some work on the nut, oiled the board and polished the frets, replaced a couple saddle height screws with shorter ones to save my hand from being scratched, etc.

Now it looks, feels, plays and sounds like a fairly decent guitar. I just wanted to have a basic telecaster in my collection to noodle on occasionally and this is fine for that.

A very good guitar for beginners or as a modding platform for tinkerers.