TE-25TH Firemist : Bought as project guitar, didn't end up needing to do much

My plan was to buy this, put some work into it and then hopefully get a decent instrument for students. But it turned out to be really great on its own. I made a couple modifications: thinned the neck out a bit and added a coat of modified tung oil, smoothed the fret edges. Aside from the fret edges though, it was mostly personal preference stuff, I easily could have left it as is.

I own a Fender Am. Pro II Tele and you'd be surprised how close this guitar feels to that in terms of quality.

In terms of pick-ups, I have a set of Lollars I planned on putting in this but I may not even end up doing that because the stock pick ups actually sound solid, I even think the Alnico-5's with the alder body give better sustain than some other Tele's I've played. Gig bag is good too, better padding and storage than a standard gig-bag.

All in all, when I got this I hoped it could turn it into a decent guitar, turns out it was a pretty great guitar from the start and with a little work I can actually make it an awesome guitar. Can't get much better at this price point.