AXL Eldorado AT-800 Tele Style

I assume this guitar was made in late 2008 or early 2009, I bought it new.
This guitar has roughly the feel and apearance of a Tele style guitar. It has that body shape.
It has two pickups, the bridge pickup has 3 screw holes but is set into the body of the guitar, not into the bridge. The bridge has 6 saddles and is flat against the body. It is neither a strat or tele style bridge, it is like what you might see on Matsumoku guitars, fits flat against the body with no routing beneath. No trem.
It is a string through, with ferrils on the back of the guitar.
One volume, one tone, and one three way toggle.
It has a mother of toilet seat pickguard (looks 3ply) that covers the neck pickup. The bridge pickup is set into the guitars body.
The headstock of this guitar is painted the same color as the guitar ( a very light mint green color) and has what appears to be a plastic or metal badge with the AXL logo. The headstock also has very unusual looking binding that goes along the tuners around to the other side of the headstock, but not all the way to the nut. Very strange and unique.
The headstock has a nice appealing shape.
The body is unbound. The pickups are single coil and say both "EMG" and "AXL" on them.
From what I have read the body is alder. The neck and fretboard are very nice looking maple.

This guitar feels VERY beefy. The body feels heavy and the guitar is well balanced. The neck feels stout without feeling too fat. The radius is comfortable.
The neck has string trees.

I play a variety of styles including country, which this guitar would be well suited for.
I also play blues, and wouldn't hesitate to use it for that or for more Stones style rock era music.

This guitar if VERY bright. I have not changed strings yet, but I suspect the strings are not what is making it brighter than my Jerry Reid Tradition, which is a similar guitar but has much beefier tone.
The pickups sound to me very similar to some of the Lace Sensors. I have a Lace Sensor in one of my strats, it is very high frequency oriented and not real beefy in the bass. These pickups are like that, not real beefy in the bass. I have to roll the highs on the am down to about 4, as opposed to the normal 6 or 7 with my other guitars.

I like the way the guitar sounds, but may eventually change the pickups. I haven't used it out yet, but after I gig with it I might change the pickups if they sound that bright on stage.
The pickups get pinch harmonics well, much easier than a lot of pickups out there. They seem to have a lot of output, and do not sound bad, but they also don't sound very beefy. I hate to use the word "cheesy", but they are not much above sounding cheesy.

The guitar was not factory set up. The pickups were not adjusted.
The bridge screws were somewhat loose and I had to snug them down.

But the workmanship is flawless. The frets are well finished, the fret ends feel great. The guitars finish if flawless.

I adjusted the truss rod and did a setup and intonated it. It intonated easily and accurately even with the factory strings.
I got very low action on it without having to reset the neck.
The tuners look very much like Schallers and feel good, they seem to be very adequate, not a lot of lag or slack in them.
The volume control has a very smooth cut to it, very linear. the tone control is quite effective. The switch feels good and tight.

The hardware looks great, the adjustment screws didn't bind.
It is hard to tell about the finish.
I never gig with only one guitar, I always have backups, but I would trust this one as soon as I would any other.
Considering this guitar is very much professional quality and I only paid $125 for it new, even if I had to replace the pots, jack, and switch I wouldn't be upset about it.

In general overseas products don't need customer support. The customer support comes with the fact that they make stuff right the first time, so I have never had to rely on customer support from an overseas product.

I have been playing 44 years this year. I have numerous guitars and didn't need this one. I seen it on the rack at a flea market and it caught my eye.
I went back to the flea market and the same dude was there, he no longer had it but ordered one for me, I drove about 50 miles to buy it from his store.

I like everything about this guitar but the pickups. Which, again, they are not bad they are just not what I like.
Replacing them will be no biggie.
I don't have an opinion about whether I would replace it, being as I just bought it. I haven't played it long enough to see how stable the neck is.
It has been my experience that Asian guitars tend to have VERY stable necks that hold setups and do not change a lot. That is one of the major reasons I prefer guitars from Asia.