TE-52 NA Vintage Series : A surprisingly good guitar, especially considering the pricetag

I bought this guitar after watching some reviews on the internet.

I must say I was very pleasantly surprised. For 160 Euros, you get a chunky heavy and very resonant guitar. The wood is dense, not soft, which I like. The neck is very stable.

I bought this guitar to upgrade it to a high quality instrument.

Mods:

Installed Gotoh tuners, a Gotoh bridge, Gotoh TLB-1 String Ferrules, an Allparts Retrofit Jackplate T-Style, a SwitchCraft jack, a self-made bone-nut, a DiMarzio 3-position switch, a DiMarzio Area Hot T DP421 noiseless bridge pickup, a Seymour Duncan SH-55 for the neck, which balances very well with the DiMarzio, new pots and matching knobs and for less than 600 Euro you have a guitar that sounds better than an entry-level Fender for 750 or higher.

A little bit of criticism: the neck is straight, the fret material is also high quality, but you need to level the frets to make the action acceptable. I know how to do it, people who don't know would need a luthier to give these guitars a professional setup.