«  very surprising! »

already mentioned above, Chinese manufacturing as we know today has little to do with the reputation it sucitait few years ago, the specifications require both a guitar and made that any or elsewhere in the world of jumpers .. brass finish and very good overall, varnishes etc. .. alnico pickups of very good quality, excellent violin, potentiometers are progressive and big! no comparisons with lower-end Squier, I will not comment on the quality of the frets (alloy) because it is too soon to tell, the guitar is only one year.

UTILIZATION

the handle is really a treat, a little thinner than my Start U.S. and faster, the varnish can interfere with nine moving for those who have sweaty hands, it's not my case .. its lightest weight is reasonable that a stratum, but we still feel we have something on épaules.l access to the treble is clean that we can therefore expect a telecaster ..
for sound, it's also surprising is that this guitar, whatever the position, the quality of the two microphones and their differences are that you get a pallet of its super interesting, see below.

SOUNDS

the telecaster is a very typical quitar with sounds obvious but a singular contrast to what one might think, although very typed it may be necessary in any style of music, for blues it is a refference for the funky, too, for reggae is the top in both rhythmic solo, is like the big rock and punk .. no comment! that's really the value of a Telecaster, a guitar truly distinctive and yet so versatile, which was different from a Stratocaster sometimes too flexible at the expense of a little singular personality.
the pickups are ALNICO the magnet are built based on aluminum / nickel / cobalt, making it a configuration Vintage, with a little less powerful magnets as ceramics but suddenly it delay the vibration of the string and thus sustain, which in itself is not the highlight of a telecaster .. I plugged in my two amps that is, a roland cube30X (transistors) and a head 18 Watt All Tube epiphone valve senior coupled to a speaker eminence blackheart 112.
on the neck pickup many said was missing fishing, I'm more reserved on this point and I think the bridge pickup is the cause, it is indeed so powerful when you pass the bridge to handle ago actually a difference in level, it's just the balance of the two is a little lag, the clarity of the neck pickup is really good, very serious indeed less powerful than my Start, do not forget that it ' is a lipstick .. but when you turn the volume and gain on the amp you do not feel any weakness of this microphone.
The intermediate position is extremely interesting because it combines precisely these pickups really different, with a bit of twang to delay it all is finally the bridge position is really surprising, it is true that the output level is high and the rock in posibillité Solicitating are high, the crunch and saturation to suit him perfectly, very focused on those mediums that fans will love it!
I could note 10, but given a relative imbalance of pickups I put 9 ..

OVERALL OPINION

I've had a short week and it did not seem necessary to wait to give my opinion, it is legitimate in any case more than doing it after you try to store a few minutes as I ' I have read here .. in my case I played every day at least 1:30 every time, it seems sufficient to me, knowing that unlike a test store, my guitar is perfectly set (height cords, microphones, and also quality ropes, tie appropriate etc. ..) I try to store a standard mex tele and although I obviously did not play after 10h and the finish was as good, j I found that micro unquestionably lacked personality, I had even resigned to not buy American telecaster as too expensive ..
yeah, to summarize, I paid € 210 for this opportunity very good guitar and what I say without shame plays in a yard close to my Start U.S. 40th! at that price, i was close to pass on any defects and to this day, I have not really found luien ..