TE-25TH Firemist : Stop wasting time reading reviews, just buy it now

The amount of quality that HB has packed into a $250 USD guitar is absolutely wild. Locking tuners, vintage style tuning pegs, roasted maple neck, double bound body, custom color and satin finish, stainless steel frets, compensated brass saddles? If you spec out an equivalent fender, it runs about $2000. The neck is really nice, I sometimes just walk past the guitar on its stand and run my hand up and down the neck a couple times because it's so velvety smooth. And it looks great on the roasted neck which has a nice level of stripes and darker color. The fretboard is incredibly smooth. I just added a light layer of lemon oil and it looks dark and beautiful all the way down. The fret job is noticeably better than the Epiphone LP I bought last November. They could maybe use 1 more pass on the ends with the file but that's about it. And they're really beefy frets so it's easy to finger them if you're newer. Pickups are really good sounding, my only complaint is I wish they had just a bit more clarity when playing clean chords, but other than that, they sound like a pretty typical tele bridge and neck and that's why I was looking to buy a tele in the first place. The body binding looks really good and is flush with the body all the way around. 3 layer pickguard, chrome finishes. Plus a pretty decent gig bag. I think it even came with decent strings (elixirs if I remember correctly). What more can you ask for?

It's $250, buy it now because the wait time looks like it's doubled since I got mine a couple months ago. The satin gold is beautiful in person too, with a nice sheen when the light hits it.