Lot's of expensive custom builds going on around here so I thought I'd bring us all down to earth with this lovely £130 blue collar tele. My father in law plays mainly acoustic so I sugessted buying him a cheap electric for xmas. I tried to wangle a classic vibe tele but this is the most we could really spend. Vintage have an okay name so I though what's the worst that could happen.
Got it this morning, opened the box. Not too heavy, not loo light - good start. Tuned up by ear quickly and stayed in tune. No sharp frets, well seated an polished okay (not like mirrors but didn't expect that). Thick but nice poly finish showing the grain. Nice ring when played acoustically. Plugged it in....nice, has a really springy squaky tele kinda feel.
For the money I'm astonished, it's a great guitar...in fact I had to have a quick play of my £800 Allparts/Callaham/glendale/BKP Tele just to make sure it was actually better. And it is, the tone is a little depper and it feels better but then again it should....
I'd happily gig this guitar and it will sound even better with some decent 11's on it.....
