Great video. I like Toneriders and Lollars and use both (Tonerider vintage plus set in a tele and a Lollar 50's wind dogear in a Junior double-cut). The lollars are a great match for a completely hollow thinline guitar. Both great pickup manufacturers. Thank you.

Pickups are wire wrapped around magnets. So I was glad when it was the toneriders that I preferred proving that point.

pity they never made a left handed version (as is to be expected with signature models), otherwise i would've jumped on the bandwagon. beautiful piece of wood regardless.

Not Chinese. I'm sure in Japanese

Beautiful playing!

This is a fantastic channel Don. Always love your selection of instruments to showcase. If you get a chance to grab hold of any of Eastman's guitars you wont be disppointed. I've been using their 335-a-like (T386) and DC Junior-a-like (SB55 dc/v) for about four years and they are astonishing guitars. I just put some locking tuners on the T386, the only weak part of this model.

Hey Don - Happy Summer! I finally had time to circle back to watch this again. Beautiful playing and videography. It sounds better in your hands than mine! I'd better get back to the woodshed?! See you this fall!

Awesome as always my friend!

Hey Mac! Thanks so much.

A guitar would have to be very trashed to prevent you from making it sound great, Don.

Probably 1st version. I played one in China, in Shenzhen; it was awesome.

Just had a set of these installed in a Michael Kelly Patriot (LP Style), and wow, they sound incredible! And in the past year, I've upgraded a number of guitars, mostly with Seymour Duncan (JB/Jazz, Sat. Night Specials, Pearly Gates, Seth Lovers, Psyclones), Bare Knuckle (Boot Camp Old Guard), and Mojotone (59 Clones, 56 Quite Coil P90's) pickups. These sound as good as any of them. Will definitely be ordering some more Tonerider products for future upgrades.

Hello, I think it is the first revision of this guitar where negative comments have been made, although it is not a high-end guitar, the relationship between quality and price is very good. And many great guitarists think the same. I leave some links where the people can watch other commentaries kzbin.info/www/bejne/g2GmcqxuYrN-eJI kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqG4eo2mi66MiZI Bye

Want great tone for 2-400 bucks USD, these are the one. I always enjoyed a strat, clean channel cranked. No matter what the other band members were playing I poked through the mix and was heard clearly loud and proud. They would laugh at my little cheap combo amp at first. Until we started playing. My tone just took over. It was the main focus. Because it had cut, and it had tone for days. But working on these old things, its not really worth it, unless thats just your amp you depend on for your sound.

Thanks for the review Don!

I have an HRD III and a Delta Blues 115. Pulled the delta out of the closet yesterday and holy smokes, what a great amp! I was gonna sell it, but I may just have to keep it

Great demo, Don. I have 2 of their strats that I really enjoy. Was on the fence about the SL51 until this video. Now I have one on the way, same color config as the one you’re playing.

Very nice playing! What is your rig setup what are you going through? If I wasn't already a subscriber, I'd subscribe again just to hear you play. It sounded great! Thank you!

Nice play through on this SLICK Telecaster. It sure is nice to find something so great for so cheap a price. My Tele is a few years old, Sunburst with a black guard (changed it to a tortoise guard), but it has all vintage appointments. The triple brass saddles really make it happen. I use the ash tray cover, as Joe B explains it does add a nice touch to the tone. Plus wedging the slider switch between clicks is possible. I paid 1500 for this guitar from Sweetwater with no case. They were gracious enough to include a nice Fender gig bag with a metal guitar pick zipper tab. The 2-tone sunburst is really nice and reflects its early predecessors. This guitar is an OKAY player. I really don't think it was worth the price.

Great demo, Don! I have the same model in sunburst and I love it.

I have this guitar and I love it ❤

Love it Don! Thanks for the set up work and making it shine!

I bought the mocha one… put on some compensated brass saddles, swapped the pickups for 51 Nocasters, put in a pure tone jack with electro socket jack mount, and wired up a push pull for switching between series/parallel. It’s got great grunt, but also clarity. Plays super well now that I’ve done a setup and get it dialed in. The only disappointment is that I have a semi-dead fret on the high E string that doesn’t ring cleanly like all the other frets, but other than that, this guitar is rules. I have the action set a 4/64th per Fender’s recommendations and it helps the whole guitar vibrate and feel alive (which I look for in a guitar), but I wonder if it’s possible to keep that same resonance while lowering the action just a hair (if I do that now, the low E and A string buzz a bit… maybe shim the neck?

Just wanted to say...Very tasteful playing. The tones were pretty good my friend. For a sub 300 at that. These are flying off amazon shelves.

Peavey is Peavey, not Fender, Vox, Marshall, etc, is Peavey..

NICE!!!! I got mine around the end of 1999 or early 2k. I just jammed along with you but had to put it down to type this message. Love your expression on your licks and runs. Anyway my AEX500 is still performing bloody well. No issues with the neck, pickup or the knob or what so ever after 24yrs. It has traveled to Europe and the USA with me and back to the hot and humid Malaysia. If kept well I'm sure my son who is just 15 months now will be able to hand it down to his Kids someday. Cheers mate!!!

Sounds great Don. Unfortunately not easily available in south east asia (shipping $USD 370). If it’s possible, I’d like to see a review of Jet guitars tele. More widely available. Thanks

Excellent review and demo, Don! I just got this model - great price , fit & finish is also excellent. Very comfortable to play, frets are level, no sharp fret ends. Electronics seem good. I'll know better in a month or so of using it. For this guitar, which was on sale at GuitarFetish (new) I paid $277, including shipping. Unlike the name brands, it will not hurt you nor your wallet to press "ADD TO CART" and "PAY"!

Great video. Buzz talks about the Classic Pro being great for “mellower chordal work”, then proceeds to crank it. Thanks Dan for showing us this guitar is good for the mellow work- even with the maple fretboard.

You should try Kiesel guitars! 👍

What an awesome time for people to learn to play the guitar. Don't take much money to have a brilliant guitar these days. I have a Jet jt 400 telecaster in lake placid blue £189. Looks absolutely amazing, fit finish and playability is flawless due to their amazing effort they put into their necks. It has a set of tonerider alnico 2 blues in it £65. I upgraded the electronics and switch cts pots, prague cap, treble bleed oak switch £50 and bought a set of Vanson locking tuners £35. Total cost £339. I now have a guitar with a bone nut, locking tuners, rolled fingerboard edges, roasted maple neck, perfect frets, premium wiring and amazing pickups that sound as good as any boutique builders. Going to do the same with a Js 400(strat). It will come in at 359. Two amazing guitars for the price of a player series and are head and shoulders above the player series. I say this as my player series tele is now an ornament. If it wasn’t sentimental I would sell it. These city limit pups sound epic, defo putting them in my strat. Lovely playing by the way 😊

Nice! What scale length? What’s the cost?

You never fail to make me smile when you’re noodling around. So talented!

i just got the fmt (black cherry) version. if they still made the spalted maple, i'd have got that instead. i wouldn't be adverse to picking up another, it has "main guitar" written all over it, so i might need a "number 2". unfortunately, the old spalted maple ones are very thin on the ground in Australia. so number 2 will probably be the amber fmt.

Interesting, a ltd ed that isn't just a flashy finish

ANOTHER GREAT VIDEO !!! YOU ROCK DON !!! SCHPAY !!!

Thanks for watching. I think they hold their own in the boutique pickup market regardless of price. I bought a set of Vintage Plus Tee pickups back in 2013 and I’ve been a fan since. The video in that review isn’t great but the tone is still sweet. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJe7iHtsfrCcotk

Lovely sounds. Tonerider pickups are great for the money and punch above their price point. I use some in a tele.

Question: Does that guitar have a standard tone knob, or is it a tbx style pot that cuts bass when you roll it all the way forward & & cuts highs when you roll it back past half way? Also...nice playing!

I love the dark bluesy jazz tones of my stock P-90's, these sound great thou

Very nice playing. To my rock-n-roll-damaged ears, the Fender sounds a bit muffled compared to the Peavey, at least in this video, so I prefer the Peavey. Does the Fender have more headroom than the Peavey? It sounds to me like the HRD might need to get louder to really open up and show us what she's capable of.

What do you recommend sir for that price range?

.Run two Classic 30's HEADS in stereo. Into two 10" @ 8 ohms and one 12" @8 ohms. One foot switch changes each at the same time. You can EQ the Peavey's in stereo to either A 6L6 or EL 84 sound pretty easily with this speaker and cab set up. Its the Spring Reverb and the really tasty Drive channel in STEREO that absolutely allows you to play anything. Except the absurd subharmonic Ten thousand screaming Honey Bees in Hell metal head shit. And, actually, if you take a Boss MT 2 and ram it up the ass of my setup through the Effects loops in stereo you can even Fuck that pooch to death infront of the sick fucks who like that shit. Peace. Been There Fuck That

Is it the pickup is seymour duncan?

Well played Sir. Lovely pick ups. Very interesting tones and great vast amount of them too. Very clean playing. 💯

I am probably going to get a Classic 50 pretty soon. I think these Peaveys are a great, great value. Super is out of my reach or I would have another one I like your channel, subbed!

There just isn’t enough respect out there, for the classic 30. It is truly a great sounding amplifier. Clean or drive channels are always inspiring.😎✌️

Nicely done. I have a T63 and love it

I have the Lollar 50's P90s in my Epiphone Casino, its a 2015 model which used to have rosewood, nowadays they have indian laurer or pau ferro. i use it in unconventional ways on my channel. Thanks for sharing!

Jon Maghini makes very, very amazing instruments. He is brilliant, fussy, and exacting in his craft. Every once in a while, a genius steps out from the shadows to blow everyone's minds... Jon is that guy.