Product: AD Custom Guitar Twangking Tele
Price Paid: UNKNOWN
Submitted
05/31/2007
at
04:08pm
by
AllanV
Features
:
10
Sweet Tele copy. I can not believe that this thing was under $600. I get the giggles everytime I play it and recall the absurd price!!
Natural gloss finish on 2 piece, light weight nicely grained ash body. Maple 22 fret neck & maple board. Shaved Wilkinson string-thru bridge. Vintage style Gotoh lockable tuners, 25.5" scale. An absolutely beautiful semi-fat neck. Guitar was built 2007 (purchased off of eBay!!) Standard 3 way controls. Duncan APT pickups. A superbly built & finished guitar.
Sound
:
10
Probably the most versatile Tele I have ever heard (and I have heard a lot!!) Rock, jazz, blues and pop. Does them all and does them well. Guitar is super quiet w/ Duncan pickups. An amazingly clear,full, bright sound with a lot of resonance and airyness. A very sweet sounding tele!
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
10
Best set up I have played in over 30 years. Perfect action - low and fast with no buzzing. The pickups are perfectly adjusted. All routing is neat & clean w/ a tight, smooth neck pocket. Just no flaws that I can see. I think I'm in love!!
Reliability/Durability
:
10
Well it's a Tele. I do not think much can go wrong with them especially one as well made as this one, unless you bug out and do something silly, like use it to pry open a crate (although it might be made well enough for that!!) The parts are all of superior quality. As for durability, although I would always take care of something this beautiful, I am pretty sure it could take being used as a weapon in case of a stage riot, so I think gigging will continue to be no problem.
Customer Support
:
10
They went way out of there way to ensure mysatisfaction and they stand behind there products. Amanda is great to work with. These people have very strong views of how a guitar should be built with old style craftsmanship In my experience. This organization insists on building a guitar with old style craftsmanship and attention to detail that made this instrument look, sound a play as well as any guitar I have ever owned. Also while the guitar was pretty much built(again, this was an ebay purchase)when I purchased it, They allowed me to make some changes I wanted with no hassles and no extra charges.
Overall Rating
:
10
Like most guitarists, I have many, many other guitars. all for a specific job. Well this Tele has turned out to be so versatile I am selling some of the others. I do not really play them any more. I mean, Idon't understand how someone can take most of the same quality parts as any of the big manufacturers and for something like a third the price, create something that is so obviously above & beyond the norm. Because, other than the shape and basic configuration, there is no comparison. I have been playing and listening to guitars for a really long time. I simply had no idea one Telecaster could feel, sound and play so radically superior to all the others I have come across during my years of playing.
