Stagg Telecaster Copy

Made in China. Fat Tele copy.Single coil neck and humbucker in the bridge. Machine heads I believe are pings.

The neck pickup hums like a schoolboy after his first date. The bridge pickup gives the Tele sound.I replaced neck with Seymour Duncan STK-T1 Rhythm and even tho it didn't need it the bridge was replaced with Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates.

The machine heads are actually nice for an unkown brand. The set up was nonexcistant. Beautiful looking guitar. I set up the guitar and it is easy to do. The faux bigsby is actually impressive.

Heavy solid.Finish appears to be tough.

I own 18 guitars, played over 30 years.The maple neck and overall beauty was why I purchased it. I love to customize and I put more into the pickups than the guitar cost but was worth it. I would buy it as a beginners guitar with the idea I could turn her into a semi-pro guitar without having to buy a new one.

- 2008 model - made in Belgium.
- 21 frets
- Solid-top (is really good quality)
- Controls are made by very strong metal, components are nice, standart strings are okay, the pickup is very nice..
-Pickup configuration are standart country S/S/H
- Standart Stagg pickup for Vintage models as Telecaster and stratocaster (country rock setup nice combinatet and easy to change)
-Passive electronics.
-Body and neckwoods are by mahogany and are very stabile and can tage much weight before cracking.
-Finish are that this is the best copy of a Telecaster i ever seen
- Tuners are non-locking.
-neck are frets offcourse
- I get Case, strab by ASHTON, cable tools, and 2 picks

- The sound setup is like a Bruce Springsteen song Rock
- No effets
- No noise
- Rich and full completet sound
- after how skilled you are the guitar is a perfect for performing
- I like everyhing

- Works
- The pickups was adjust as i exspectet, exellent
- hmm
- Really quality wood, stabile buttons, standart strings very good, nice finish the best copy of a telecaster you get..
FABULOUS!!

- The guitar are made for superstarts
- The hardware is ok
- The finish are very good,
- Strapbuttons are ok
- Everything ok

- Never had it repaird
- 24 month for me in Scandinavia

Everything good
I like it
and it is the best telecaster copy you will get.
Best value for money,

Yellow color,maple neck,standard non-locking chrome tuning machines,solid ash body.Very nice tele-clone.I would put it up against a Squier any day!Not as good fitting/setup/finish as American Fender.Standard tele 2 passive single pickups.Got it at JR.com for $109.00+$15.00 UPS shipping with $10.00 Google rebate.

Sounds are very good out of stock pups.Weak"as all tele's are"but turn up your amp volume alittle and she comes alive.Bridge pup has nice non tele sound kinda like clean small humbucker,neck pup is were the tele twang is on this axe,you have to dig in and play the strings hard to get a real bluesy type tele sound,but its there and its strong.Both pups together have a very useful sound good for rock,or rythem.

Setup was high as mount everest from the factory.Had to reset for lower action,and reset intonation.Dump the stock strings that come with it"they are crap".Slap on a set of 11,and go to town!Setting intonation on a tele "with stock 3 saddle setup" takes alittle getting used to of.I would suggest going to Symore/Ducan pickup homepage,look under protips and they tell you step by step how to set intonation on a tele.I wish it was a thru body and had 3 brass saddles instead of steel saddles,but for what I paid I might make mods latter on.

Should last along time,its made like a brick shithouse.Switchs and pups Might be the only weak point on this axe.

Have bought from JR.com before,they are athourized Stagg seller.So if I have problem they stand behind it,mail it back to them.

I play blues about 5 years for my own relaxtion.I would buy this again if it was stolen.Very nice axe for the money.
I have 2 Peavey's T15,American Predator,Fender Tele,2 Squire Strat,Master series tele hollowbody"Korean",Tiesco 60's hollowbody,Washburn WI14.This is a fine,fun,good quality tele clone!

I'm a bit of a novice so I bought off e-bay, brand new for 69 pounds including 10 pounds postage. Great finish (retro blonde) not a mark on it anywhere and the grain is just visible through the laquer. Alder body with a maple neck - 21 frets. The shape is true to the Tele look with an ashtray bridge (which I have replaced with a new assembly with brass saddles at a cost of 20 quid as a screw for one of the saddles had broken) and all the pots and switches true to form and feel sturdy enough. Tuners are ok (wouldn't know any different) and the pups sound good now I have re-strung.

Well, as I said, I am a novice but I love the look and the feel. The only other electric guitar I own is a Watkins Rapier and I'm not sure if it's fair to compare the two. I have set the guitar up myself (after reading up on the net) which took loads of time but was very satisfying to do. I think it sounds great (I only play thru a Park practice amp) and the action makes it easy to play. Twangy to muddy depending on the settings chosen. It does feel heavy but this is probably because my Watkins is so light!

The factory set-up was non-existent. The only flaws were the broken saddle screw, awful strings and a screw missing which secured the selector switch - all easily rectified. Everything else is great - I spent last saturday in Denmark Street (London) browsing the guitar shops and I think it's as good a finish as any of the Squiers I saw and even the Mexican Fenders. Not sure if I was just lucky and got a good one but overall it has a quality look and feel.

As I said previously, I think the finish is superb. With regards to wear and tear, I'm not sure as I'll never gig! Somehow, I wish it does age as it gives the character. I tightened everything that moves to be certain nothing comes loose. It looks like it'll last but if things start to wear that can be replaced, that's what I'll do!

Tried looking into Stagg's website for a replacement screw for the saddle but it isn't customer friendly. To be honest, you can get anything you want for one of these guitars from any good guitar shop or e-bay and at the price, I'm not frightened to have a go at anything that might need attention in the future - it's not priceless!! So forget customer support - sort it out yourself! That's the route I prefer to take.

I have been fooling around for a number of years on the guitar. I entertain myself but I'm sure no-one else. I looked at this site for reviews before buying and the scores are, in my opinion, a little low. I think it's fantastic. I have a Watkins Rapier 22 which I have owned for 30 years, a Crafter acoustic, a Santander resonator (GREAT guitar for the money and slide is fun!) and an Epiphone Allen Woody base. If stolen, at 69 pounds, I would replace it - so cheap!! I love the look (and lets face it, how hard can it be to copy a Tele) and would recommend it to anyone who cannot/does not want to spend a fortune on a Tele. It may be Chinese but who cares?

I bought this guitar off EBay for about 50 Euros. Black finish, white pickguard, chrome hardware and rosewood fretboard. Two single coils, telecaster-style bridge, but no strings through body. Volume and tone control, 3-way selector. Non locking Gotoh-style tuners by Stagg.

The bridge pickup brings typical tele-sound. I use it only on the bridge pickup because the neck pickup has a bit more microphonic feedback. The bridge pickup is much louder and gives you a good sound for rhythm parts in punkrock or those modern pop-rock songs. It's not good for high distortion metal parts because of much feedback and noise in higher distortion levels. I normally use it with a hughes&kettner matrix 100 at the crunch channel. It's impossible to use it with the warp-channel.
The neck pickup (soapbar) has more bass and it sounds a bit like a stratocaster neck pickup. But I don't really like this one. It's ok playing it with my small Fender Frontman amp. And it's also ok playing it for a clean sound.

Because I bought this guitar as a second hand instrument, I can't say anything about the factory setup. The finish is ok, almost all of the frets fit in correctly, some are a bit too long, but no problem.
The only problem is, that the guitar's neck is too heavy for the rest of the body so the balance of the instrument is bad and the neck is always going down while I'm playing live.
I changed the strapbuttons to Schaller Security locks, so they are best. The neck fits best into the body. The knob of the tone control was broken, so i changed the knobs and also the pickguard to black ones.

I used this guitar for a couple of gigs, mostly for punkrock and poprock songs. It was no problem, except for the balance problems. The 3-way-toggle seems to be a bit to less solid for heavy use, but I don't use it very much because I normally just play with the bridge pickup. The finish seems to be good for many gigs.
All in all I wouldn't use the guitar without a backup guitar as I never go out on stage without a backup guitar. On stages with very high sound levels there could be problems with feedback, so you have to turn down the monitors a bit.

no experiences

It's a solid guitar for some rock. I used it with a matrix 100 and a fender frontman amp and it sounds ok if you don't wanna do more than a simple rockshow. It's nothing for metal, jazz or progressive things, but it's ok for having fun on stage with a good sound.
After changing the pickups to better ones (Fender,...) it could be a real good alternative to original Fender Telecasters, especially because of the low price.

It has a slightly translucen yellow finish, non locking tuners but very smooth working, very smooth maple neck (the best feature of this guitar), tele bridge (awfull), 22 frets, 1 volume 1 tone 3 way pickup swich, a single coil bridge pickup (offset, the strings not aligned so the high ones are guieter) and a tube looking neck pickup, and I have no ideea about the woods...

I mostly play punk and ska. It's ok but has an annoyng humm on the bridge pickup, and a nasty feedback on stage. When I use both pickups is almost completely hummless but on speedy palm muted stuff it sounds awfull. The neck pickup is great for jazzy/bluesy licks.
The high E, and B, strings are guieter than the other strings, so the guitar is not good for solos.

The bridge pickup set-up gets a 1. I can't palm mute efficiently because the bridge's sides are higher than the strings. The neck is very comfortable it gets a 10. The frets buzz a little so I had to set the G string higher than the rest, but I got used to it. The finish was very good, but it doesen't matter cause I covered the body with stickers. The pickup selector is a bit noisy.

I have it for a year and a half now and it suffered a lot of use and abuse on stage (getting drunk and falling, getting in the moshpit while playing, spilling beer all over it etc..) and it still sounds like new. The finish has a few dents, the volume control is a little wobbly, and the stagg sign came out of the headstock (that's a good thing) when I was changing the strings. The strap buttons unskrew themselves so I have to have a skrewdriver with me all the time.
I never had a backup guitar with me at any gig.

I love the neck profile, and smoothness. I have a strat copy, and it took me a couple of weeks to get used to the fastness of this neck compared to the strat's.
I hate the bridge. I want to cut off the sides so i can palm mute better.

Stagg is a Italian compagny but the guitars are made in China.

For a 150 US $ the sound is good if you plug this guitar on a good amplifier. I use a Huguhes and Kettner Attax80 and sounds clears or Hard rock style are possible.

Everything was OK when i buy this guitar.

I dont change anithing on this guitar and i think i will play again a lot whihout problemes.

If i have any problemes i can come back to the shop where i buy this instrument.

Since 4 month i have playing this guitar i am always surprise that a cheap guitar like this can be so beautyful and sound good. I am not an expert but the Chineese now are very good to build for a very cheap price good quality instrument. If you need a Fender Telecaster copy this Stagg T300 is a nice guitar.

It's all been said. 22 frets, solid body, 2 pickups... everything the origional tele has too. Except no string trough body. Not a really versatile guitar, but no tele is.

It has 2 stock pickups. A standard single coil one and a soapbar in the neck posision.

OK, first the bridge pickup.
The bridge has a standard single coil in it made by Stagg. It has that tipical tele sound and it's perfect for bar chords. It's really bright bus also has decent low end. With some distortion, you can acually rock with it. I run it trough a Proco RAT 2 and can get that rythm sound of "Smoke on the Water" perfectly. There are some problems though. 1st, it's noisy as hell. Especially with distortion. 2nd, lots of microphonic feedback (the 'bad' squeel feedback that you don't want) on higher volumes, even on clean. I'm gonna wax the pickup to get rid of that problem. All in all, it's still suprisingly good. Don't expect to get a big fat rock tone or something though, it's still a telecaster. If you want that, buy a les paul copy.

BRIDGE PICKUP: 8


Now, the neck pickup.

It's a soapbar pickup. This one isn't noisy at all and has loads of bass. Really, on the neck position, i can almost blow the windows out. No feedback problems as the bridge on this one. But, it's extremely muddy. I first thought it sounded like crap but then i found out that it's great for swamp-style blues and slides when there is some overdrive. It has that really nasty, dirty vibe written all over it. It doesn't have that "twangy" sound of a neck pickup on the origional tele, but it's just diffrent, and not in a bad way. Because it sounds so extremely nasty, i like it. Clean sounds pretty good too.

If i where a professional reviewer, i'd probably give it a 6. It's really, really, really muddy, and it doesn't have much treble. But because i just fell in love with the sound that reminds me of the first blues legends from the 40's, i give it an 8.

TOTAL: 8

It was set up pretty bad from the factory, but nothing that a good adjustment can't fix. Replaced the .09 strings with .10's. The finish is acually pretty good. I was suprised how good the body looked and the finish on it. The neck plays suprisingly comfortable too. It's just a good guitar that doesn't cost much. The tuners aren't that good, but i'll replace them soon. Bridge also good enough. Don't expect Fender quality, but for the price it's damn good.

I wouldn't play it without a backup. The finish lasts good, i've played many hours on it aggressively and it's still like new. But one time, it completely died on me. I checked the wiring and saw that one wire was gone loose. Fixed it with some solder in 10 minutes. I did notice though, that under the hood it's pretty sloppy. The wires are soldered sloppy and there's little wood splinters and rubbish everywhere. I also had to tighten up the cable connector because my cable fell out all the time. The pots aren't also that high quality.

All in all, it's what you'd expect for a 120 Euro guitar. Good enough for the price i've payed for it.

Never dealt with them.

Been playing for 2 years. 4 hours a day at least. This is my first electric guitar. I'm reviewing it now because i've had enough experience with it to write a valid review. My main style is Blues, but also classic rock and hard rock. Planning to buy an American deluxe Ash Strat this year, but i'm gonna keep this one because it sounds unique.

If it was stolen, i'd buy it again because it doesn't cost much and i really like it. Only wish it had a trough-body bridge.

All in all, a good telecaster imitation. The quality is much better than that you would expect for a guitar in that price range. I bought it as a beginners guitar, but i think a veteran would be happy with it too. The neck pickup kicks ass.

Value: 9

I've had my 2003 Stagg Telecaster for about a year now, made in China and bought off Ebay UK for about ?75.00. Originally in tobacco sunburst with a white pickguard and maple neck, the only thing I didn't like was the strings as supplied and the pickguard. I expected a cheap knock-off, but as a second guitar to my Steinberger, that was ok. I was suprised at the good quality of the finish out of the box, and although the frets could do with a little dressing the wood and paint finish was (is) very good. I bought it because I couldn't see why a left hand Fender would have cost me nearly ?500 and I was happy to spend a little money to bring this 'Noodle-Caster' up to scratch... It came with an ashtray bridge, and I really wanted a thru-body bridge, until I started playing it..

But I'll stick with the ashtray. It also came with a cheap but sturdy case, straps and a cheap but ok lead.

I play a bit of everything and I own a Steinberger, and have owned or played a 68' Strat, a Yamaha Pacifica 112, a Burns and half a dozen others. The Stagg Tele has that clean nasal twang you'd expect from a Tele, and really does sound very good. I use it with a Torres Tube amp at home, or a Line 6 Spider set to 'clean', and also plug into my 12 channel desk, and anything else I can get my hands on. The sound is excellent, especially from the lipstick pickup at the neck which is warm and jazzy. The bridge pup sounded 'ice-pick' clean too, but I put a Seymour Duncan Vintage '54 in there, because I wanted a more defined sound. Result? It sounded only slightly different to original Stagg pickup - slightly different -not better. If I knew that now, I'd have saved sixty pounds and kept the original. So top marks for sound quality, especially at the price. Put another pickup in there if you must, but the originals are pretty faithfull to other stock Tele's I've played.

Set up was a bit hit and miss - the action was too high, the original strings were made of toilet paper and the intonation was way out. The frets were a little rough at the edges, but nothing major. The finish on the body is extremely good, better than some of the other low-cost Fenders I've played. The neck is ok but I may need to tweak the truss rod a little to get the buzz out of the top frets due a string size increase (up to 10's on the E & G strings) - nothing major. The tuners seem a little loose too, but it stays in tune for weeks on Hybrid Slinky strings so that's just being picky. I didn't like the white pick-guard so I got a custom made in tortoise-shell and changed the original silver knobs and switch handle for black. Now, I love the smoky tobacco looks.

I don't play live, so I don't know, about gigging it, but the Noodle-Caster is exceptionally well made at the price and should last for years. The Strap buttons I changed as the originals were conical and the strap didn't feel too secure. I play it most days and it seems rock-solid. It's a great looking guitar, too, and has been much admired.

Not needed any repairs.

I've been playing about five years, I own three other guitars and owned a dozen more in that time. I really like the Stagg Telecaster and won't sell it, espcially as building a semi-custom guitar out of it only cost me about ?175.00, including the guitar and case. The all-round tone is excellent, and it does everything a Fender should, except increase in value.. Would I buy another? WEll,, I got the hots for a Strat, so I just bought.. ... a Stagg Stratocaster. I just hope it's as good as my Stagg Tele. It's a seriously good guitar for the money, and gets better if you spend a little time setting it up. I'd replace it if it got stolen, and wouldn't bother to put a Seymour Duncan in the bridge. I'd stil fit the tortoiseshell pick-guard and black knobs though. At the price it's a very fine guitar.

You have to tune-up the saddle!
Then have a cis tuning.
I play this thing over an zoom gfx-8
Surprising.
This axe turns me on!
I played a lot giutars the last 35 years. This one
grooves.

Nice neck!
When you able totun-up this git
then you will getit!

I think its ok

I love this cheap thing.
;-)