"No rosewood was harmed in the making of this instrument.."! Great sense of humour, as always, and great sense of realism. I'm a bit concerned at people calling you a cheapskate, and the guitars featured as firewood. The channel is based on reviewing budget, or value, guitars, and always has been, so for you to be fielding such comments is unfair and downright outrageous. Even going back to your (broken) Epiphone Flying V/Explorer, videos, where you criticise the company for their pricing, wasn't that a rather large clue as to the channel's main focus. Don't pay any attention to these naysayers - we watch because you review the gear without fear or favour (mostly), and with a sense of humour and realism, returning to my original point. Keep on keeping on!
While some may complain, I think a majority of your fans like the very low cost guitar reviews. I believe that there are a lot of players and aspiring players who would like to expand their horizons but would struggle to afford a $400+ guitar. Thanks as always.
CNC, and china CAN make great gear, just ask them to tighten quality. Its why I laugh at people that will only buy UK made celestions. Would love to support my own country, but everyone is too busy tripping everyone else on a downward spiral than trying to raise all boats.
Yeah, that Prince video is amazing and I was always more a George Harrison fan than John or Paul through my life. The price of a standard model by Gibson or Fender is just insane and I love the fact you show these types of models as they just get better in quality each passing year.
@18:45 we both flinched at exactly the same time. I 've tried cheaper guitars that get T-style neck sound way better than that, I'm really working hard not to do youtube style tirade here. To keep it short ; that neck pickup made me sad, can't pick out any likeable characteristics beyond it being functional. Eastcoast are still winning the budget market for me, and I'd just like to thank you for doing a series on guitars more people can actually go and buy. You're serving a bigger community by covering this area and I appreciate it a lot.
Good one! I love that there are so many decent affordable alternatives to the big brands out there. Feature whatever you want, Col. I'll keep tuning in. I'd watch you review tea kettles, as your personality and style is so accessible and engaging. Also, the lighting and video quality is among the best here on YT. Cheers!
It looks good and the price is right, but what really gets me is that it actually sounds good. It's a very 'vintage' sound, but then surely if one is buying a 'rosewood' tele, then that's probably what one wants anyway. I wonder where my nearest pmt is lol - need to try before I buy 'cos the feel of the neck is the all important thing, and what floats one guys boat might sink mine. Good one Colin !
Excellent playing Colin. I think the guitar looks beautiful and if it can be made to sound that good then it's a wonderful value for money. A parent could buy their kid this guitar and then play it when they're off to school. 😊 Have a great weekend Colin!
Looks great and for they are charging seem really good value. Seems like almost monthly a new brand is out making good copies of the well known stuff. PMT are a pretty good business, have bought from them a few times online and visited their shops, always great service. Thing is at this price you can get one and mod the hell out of it, paint it put stickers on it, even gig with it without the worry of devaluing. great vid Collin! Like your playing too mate! Cheers.
The thing you were saying about the big boys watching their prices is spot on. Gibson is doing their best to move Epiphone into the $1000-2000 range. As long as they all have Gibson parts and electronics I don't care, but I dunno that I'm daft enough to believe that'll happen. Cheers, homie!
You can hear the inspiration you got from this guitar in your playing - sounded great! Love the affordable guitar reviews as well as the more premium ones. Going to check out that PMT Firebird... (Just a cuppa for this one, no snacks to be found!)
That is great guitar for the price Colin. Very well made. With pots and pickups upgrade that guitar could be even better than the Squire guitars which cost way more.
Colin, brilliant. The guitar looks like a candidate for modding and then comparing with more expensive equivalents. I would be interested to see you review some of the other guitars in the Antiquity range.
I recently got back in to playing after a 30 year break, I'm not good, I can play some chords, learning picking etc. I've always loved the Tele style, and seeing as I had a Tanglewood Strat copy already that I took out of storage which doesn't play all that well, I bought a Squier Tele (in butterscotch blonde) for under £150. It's made me fall in love with playing again, and didn't cost the earth. I have a feeling I'll be buying more "budget" guitars now :D I do love the look of that Fauxwood TL1, I think it would go nicely next to the Squier :D
Enjoyed the review, and your playing in the demo! I had thought about a Harley Benton as a budget guitar, maybe to mod, but had been put off because of problems and cost of importing. This seems like a better alternative. I hope to see more similar reviews!
Colin, great video, as usual. That looks like a really good budget option and a great mod platform. I watched it while I set up a second hand Martin D15m that just arrived yesterday!
0:27 it’s funny that your intro is playing While My Guitar Gently Weeps because i was gonna put up a quiz on the best solos ever played on a Tele. I’d just watched for the umpteenth time the Jeff Lynne, Prince, Winwood and Petty et al cover of that and Prince’s solo at the end is surely the best ? And remembered I hadn’t watched this video of yours yet. Anyway? Opinions below and I’ll watch the rest of this one Cheers bro 😎🎸🤘
I was in the romford pmt store today before watching this video. They have a lovely blond antiquity keith richards enspired tele with humbucker in the neck.
Love your show Colin. I saw you had a Watkins Rapier 33 in your collection that you were going to restore one day. What about a review of the new reissue 33 and maybe compare to your restoration? Keep up the great content.
Thanks for looking at these affordable models. Some of us are cool with playing the budget versions of our favorites. Allows for more money for future gas without having to sell a limb! 😂🎸
I highly recommend the Antiquity V. It needs a little setting up - intonation mainly - and it isn't korina but it's a lot cheaper than the Epiphone and it plays and sounds good!
I have to say, it sure looks good, even if stained cheaper wood. Imagine what a chunk of rosewood that size would cost. A slab of cedar might not be too costly, but... Anyway, great review of it. Even cheap guitars these days seem to be pretty good. I actually sounds pretty good... the neck pickup on a clean amp setting aside. Crazy nice Tele-type for that money. Well done!
Another great vid Colin, you've got me interested in their LP jnr double cut. £159. Is this the age of the budget guitar? I agree that the big brands have to be careful with their pricing now. Have a good one, thanks for posting.
A very good looking guitar... lower price affordable guitars offer good hot rodding platforms to work with... splendid playing... love your vibrato bends! Cheers from Ohio, USA.
Colin, I can't understand why people complain about you featuring guitars, like this. Yes, they are made for folks who are beginners, have little money, or both. However, by upgrading the hardware and electronics, and even paying to have the work done, A very high quality guitar can, sometimes, be had for less than 1/2 the cost of a Gibson or Fender. You have even done that yourself, ending up with several guitars that played and sounded as good or better than their expensive counter parts. I guess, the complaining must come from folks who have grown long noses, from looking down them at guitars like this. By all means review a few more PMT"S, like their SG, since you are a big SG fan, and maybe even tweak one up a bit. Now, that could be fun. and drive the "long noses" to distraction too, HA, HA ;-)
Great video, thanks. Please check out more guitars from this brand especially the V and explore models. Like theese more afordable brands. So tired of fender (also Epiphone nowadays) and gibson high prices.
I went through my faze of buying expensive guitars...kept a few sold on the others....now I enjoy buying cheap guitars....some I mod some I leave alone....I think these antiquity guitars are excellent for the price.
Nice one Col, you're so right, it is wot it is. In my early career I remember buying my first electric guitar, the Audition by Woolys, (Woolworths) (who else started on it too.????) then moving up market ( so I thought) to the dizzy heights of my £40 Avon SG.. The Audition was a finger shredder with one inch action, 😂 the Avon SG was like a guitar equivalent of decaf coffee? I wish back then I could have accessed one of these cheapies you are showcasing so brilliantly,, so todays starters wont feel so bloody uesless like the rest of us who in our teens, struggled to get through a 3 minute song without needing plasters afterwards😂😂😂😂 cheers Col, laters😊
Very nice guitar for the price. That ashtray needs to go though. If pots and control plate changed as well that guitar may be a real winner.For what you pay for it it's a must own.
Cheers Col! Mate, what learners (or modders) have to choose from these days is insane, when you compare to the cheesecutter garbage some of us came across in the 70s... and the prices, l cdnt whinge about!!
A question if I may. Another TH-camr gave details about how to swop out ceramic magnets for alnico magnets in pickups. Apparently it is pretty easy to do and there are suitable magnets available for single coil or humbuckers. Any views, experience, thoughts about swopping magnets in pickups? Ta
Nice one Colin, every budding guitar player yearns for a top line fender or gibson but do they play or sound £1,000 or £2,000 better than the HB or this PMT ..... Absolutely not....
I have the Harley Benton non-rosewood non-Tele. This one looks nice, too. I wanted a real Telecaster because of James Burton. Got a deal on a 52 Custom Shop. I’m good with Teles…at least the traditional kind. There are other variations.
I love the high end stuff for the eye candy and the daydreams but budget to mid range gear always piques my interest. I know I could have less guitars and one really high end one - but I like having the different shapes, colours, styles and configurations at my fingertips based on my mood
@ 3:00 or thereabouts. Agreed my friend! I think guitar players need at least three guitars. A trophy guitar - on basis look what I got! A day-to-day guitar - based on I wonder if I twiddle this, tweak that and ... but no way will I do that to my trophy guitar and family entertain ment around campfire bbq ... coastal day out ... (preferably nylon strung so as not to disturb similar adventurers) as it avoids trophy damage cables kit noise levels on both trophy and day2day (hmmm should I copyright that 🙂)
I can't believe my first Ibanez Les Paul copy from 1978 was £99 and 46 years later you can still get a half decent guitar for not much money. Not a great range for left handed but certainly impressed with the range for right handed.
Nothing wrong with a cheap guitar,looks like a pretty good starting point,then you can add some better pickups,wiring,pots& switches,then you’ll have a real beast of a guitar,I have a made in china epiphone casino I added Lindy frailin p90’s 4 500k pots & Gibson wiring,& it’s a really really good guitar
Beautiful sounding guitar 🎸One of your guitar solos sounded like babe I'm going to leave you. What you played has brilliant chord changes even if it was while 🎸 my guitar gently weeps 😮Your guitar 🎸 playing is definitely improving with your own signature style
I am not sure if it's just me, but when I tried this a while back, it seemed quite dark (tone wise), and when I tried the Squier Classic vibe a couple weeks back, I heard a huge difference in high end. Has anyone else noticed this?
Neck pickup as woolly as my Squier 50s Tele . When I complained to Fender the reply was “ What do you expect from a Squier “ Point is the bridge pickup is excellent and the neck a dog . If I’d paid the price of the PMT here fair enough but not for the Squier. A new neck pickup beckons , Iron Gear or something like that .
Body looks more like creosote than rosewood, but who cares. Fender Telecaster necks were originally all 21 fret fingerboards. When they introduced the 22 fret necks, in order to use the same body, neck rout and bridge placement for both 21 and 22 fret necks they put the end of the 22 fret fingerboard on an overhang. There is a gap between the body and the overhang such that the scratchplate slides underneath the end of the fretboard. On a Fender guitar the scratchplate will fit both a 21 and a 22 fret neck. I'm guessing that this 22 fret neck does not have a gap beneath the overhang allowing the plate to slip underneath it, as on the Fender plates the screw holes looked a few mm to far towards the bridge when compared with the holes in the body.
Fender designs were developed to be cheap and easy to produce. There is only so much that can be done while staying within that design ethos. Rosewood would increase cost of production and add major weight. I doubt much could be done to improve their sound. Their sound is from electronics not the wood they are made from. This shows what a Fender is actually worth. Cheers.
Looks nice, but most of the antiquity guitars (mainly T style) haven’t been great at all. Strangely enough, the Antiquity Explorer and V did feel quite nice
I have to say that when it comes to cheaper fretboard woods. I much prefer Indian laurel to Pao Ferro. I find Pao Ferro too reddish. The darker the fretboard, the better.
Sweet tele clone brotha! Now i know you got ya eyes on that red SG hey! Ever heard of GEARIT brand? I recently got a semihollow tele clone of that brand with a soapy p90 in the neck and a humbucker in the bridge....surf green! And cheap as chips!
"No rosewood was harmed in the making of this instrument.."! Great sense of humour, as always, and great sense of realism. I'm a bit concerned at people calling you a cheapskate, and the guitars featured as firewood. The channel is based on reviewing budget, or value, guitars, and always has been, so for you to be fielding such comments is unfair and downright outrageous. Even going back to your (broken) Epiphone Flying V/Explorer, videos, where you criticise the company for their pricing, wasn't that a rather large clue as to the channel's main focus. Don't pay any attention to these naysayers - we watch because you review the gear without fear or favour (mostly), and with a sense of humour and realism, returning to my original point. Keep on keeping on!
While some may complain, I think a majority of your fans like the very low cost guitar reviews. I believe that there are a lot of players and aspiring players who would like to expand their horizons but would struggle to afford a $400+ guitar. Thanks as always.
Wow, the fact that the guitar actually works for that price is amazing. Guitars have come really far
CNC, and china CAN make great gear, just ask them to tighten quality. Its why I laugh at people that will only buy UK made celestions. Would love to support my own country, but everyone is too busy tripping everyone else on a downward spiral than trying to raise all boats.
Yeah, that Prince video is amazing and I was always more a George Harrison fan than John or Paul through my life. The price of a standard model by Gibson or Fender is just insane and I love the fact you show these types of models as they just get better in quality each passing year.
@18:45 we both flinched at exactly the same time. I 've tried cheaper guitars that get T-style neck sound way better than that, I'm really working hard not to do youtube style tirade here. To keep it short ; that neck pickup made me sad, can't pick out any likeable characteristics beyond it being functional.
Eastcoast are still winning the budget market for me, and I'd just like to thank you for doing a series on guitars more people can actually go and buy. You're serving a bigger community by covering this area and I appreciate it a lot.
Be interesting to see the shoot out between the low price T styles goes in a few weeks
Budget price guitars are fantastic these days, a great time for buying your first guitar, not like back in the day !! 😜
Are you referring to 'Satellite' guitars per chance? 😂
1997 squire mustang strat was my first soooo hard to play shredded my hands. it was horrible.
Good one! I love that there are so many decent affordable alternatives to the big brands out there. Feature whatever you want, Col. I'll keep tuning in. I'd watch you review tea kettles, as your personality and style is so accessible and engaging. Also, the lighting and video quality is among the best here on YT. Cheers!
Best guitar review channel
Love these cheaper priced guitars reviews
It looks good and the price is right, but what really gets me is that it actually sounds good. It's a very 'vintage' sound, but then surely if one is buying a 'rosewood' tele, then that's probably what one wants anyway. I wonder where my nearest pmt is lol - need to try before I buy 'cos the feel of the neck is the all important thing, and what floats one guys boat might sink mine. Good one Colin !
Agreed. For me it’s all about the necks.
Excellent playing Colin. I think the guitar looks beautiful and if it can be made to sound that good then it's a wonderful value for money. A parent could buy their kid this guitar and then play it when they're off to school. 😊
Have a great weekend Colin!
Good Afternoon Colin, crumpet n Brew ready, Spending my 53rd Birthday enjoying watching my favorite TH-cam show. Rock n Roll 😀🎸
Happy birthday! 😁👍
Happy birthday brother!
Cheers dude
Happy birthday!
😀👍🏻🤘
Looks great and for they are charging seem really good value. Seems like almost monthly a new brand is out making good copies of the well known stuff. PMT are a pretty good business, have bought from them a few times online and visited their shops, always great service. Thing is at this price you can get one and mod the hell out of it, paint it put stickers on it, even gig with it without the worry of devaluing. great vid Collin! Like your playing too mate! Cheers.
That's probably the closest I've seen any of these yet to an actual Fender all rosewood T. Now I'm gonna gets back to the show.
The thing you were saying about the big boys watching their prices is spot on. Gibson is doing their best to move Epiphone into the $1000-2000 range. As long as they all have Gibson parts and electronics I don't care, but I dunno that I'm daft enough to believe that'll happen. Cheers, homie!
You can hear the inspiration you got from this guitar in your playing - sounded great! Love the affordable guitar reviews as well as the more premium ones. Going to check out that PMT Firebird... (Just a cuppa for this one, no snacks to be found!)
Thank you for your honest review ! Greatly appreciated !
Another great review. I think this particular TELE sounds amazing. Thicker than the norm, but very rich and musically pleasing.
Been looking forward to this one - Harrison on a budget! 👍
That one is a beauty! Dude, you have to get the SG!!! Thanks for another great video
A cheap guitar these days isn't a bad guitar, it's an inexpensive guitar that's fine for a lot of players. Amazing what u can get now.
That is great guitar for the price Colin. Very well made. With pots and pickups upgrade that guitar could be even better than the Squire guitars which cost way more.
It really is a great guitar! I have my own right next to my ned rn!
Colin, brilliant. The guitar looks like a candidate for modding and then comparing with more expensive equivalents. I would be interested to see you review some of the other guitars in the Antiquity range.
I recently got back in to playing after a 30 year break, I'm not good, I can play some chords, learning picking etc. I've always loved the Tele style, and seeing as I had a Tanglewood Strat copy already that I took out of storage which doesn't play all that well, I bought a Squier Tele (in butterscotch blonde) for under £150. It's made me fall in love with playing again, and didn't cost the earth. I have a feeling I'll be buying more "budget" guitars now :D I do love the look of that Fauxwood TL1, I think it would go nicely next to the Squier :D
I saw the Antiquity Explorer in PMT Romford and have to say he did look good
The bluest weeping blues...nicely done, Colin.
nice one mt, loved the vid ,while my axe gently weeps.
WOW, cleaner body routs than some G brand guitars. Nice review, great job as always.
Enjoyed the review, and your playing in the demo! I had thought about a Harley Benton as a budget guitar, maybe to mod, but had been put off because of problems and cost of importing. This seems like a better alternative. I hope to see more similar reviews!
Colin, great video, as usual. That looks like a really good budget option and a great mod platform. I watched it while I set up a second hand Martin D15m that just arrived yesterday!
0:27 it’s funny that your intro is playing While My Guitar Gently Weeps because i was gonna put up a quiz on the best solos ever played on a Tele.
I’d just watched for the umpteenth time the Jeff Lynne, Prince, Winwood and Petty et al cover of that and Prince’s solo at the end is surely the best ?
And remembered I hadn’t watched this video of yours yet. Anyway?
Opinions below and I’ll watch the rest of this one
Cheers bro 😎🎸🤘
I like the modern bridge and intonation blocks. It is a great guitar for the money. Nice job, as always..
I was in the romford pmt store today before watching this video.
They have a lovely blond antiquity keith richards enspired tele with humbucker in the neck.
The tortoise shell scratch plate as such looks nice at that guitar.
Love your show Colin. I saw you had a Watkins Rapier 33 in your collection that you were going to restore one day. What about a review of the new reissue 33 and maybe compare to your restoration? Keep up the great content.
I’ve got a Tele and Strat, made of brasilian rosewood. Heavy, but great playing,sounding and looking guitars.
Thanks for looking at these affordable models. Some of us are cool with playing the budget versions of our favorites. Allows for more money for future gas without having to sell a limb! 😂🎸
Love your channel Colin, I’m pretty sure the T telecaster you purchased from PMT is made by Squire (Fender) it defo looks like a Squire🧐😎
Greetings from Detroit. "Sounded alright, yes?"....yes Sir - Sounded better than alright! Great review - That things a banger for the price!
Nice to see enough room for a p90 on the neck
Very fun idea...
@@howardmaryon I have one. China unbranded t-style with home-made pikups. P90 on neck. Very versatile guitar.
I highly recommend the Antiquity V.
It needs a little setting up - intonation mainly - and it isn't korina but it's a lot cheaper than the Epiphone and it plays and sounds good!
I have to say, it sure looks good, even if stained cheaper wood. Imagine what a chunk of rosewood that size would cost. A slab of cedar might not be too costly, but...
Anyway, great review of it. Even cheap guitars these days seem to be pretty good. I actually sounds pretty good... the neck pickup on a clean amp setting aside. Crazy nice Tele-type for that money. Well done!
Another great vid Colin, you've got me interested in their LP jnr double cut. £159.
Is this the age of the budget guitar?
I agree that the big brands have to be careful with their pricing now.
Have a good one, thanks for posting.
A very good looking guitar... lower price affordable guitars offer good hot rodding platforms to work with... splendid playing... love your vibrato bends! Cheers from Ohio, USA.
I’ve got a antiquity Les Paul left handed, for £150, I’m not really a expert but I do like it, it looks good and plays good and its good enough for me
That's some nice playing at 21.52!
My money was on the HB in this series of cheapies! Now im not so sure🤔 great review Colin 😊
One also should consider the pickups available now days that you wouldn't be trying to use on a more expensive unit.
Colin, I can't understand why people complain about you featuring guitars, like this. Yes, they are made for folks who are beginners, have little money, or both. However, by upgrading the hardware and electronics, and even paying to have the work done, A very high quality guitar can, sometimes, be had for less than 1/2 the cost of a Gibson or Fender. You have even done that yourself, ending up with several guitars that played and sounded as good or better than their expensive counter parts.
I guess, the complaining must come from folks who have grown long noses, from looking down them at guitars like this.
By all means review a few more PMT"S, like their SG, since you are a big SG fan, and maybe even tweak one up a bit. Now, that could be fun. and drive the "long noses" to distraction too, HA, HA ;-)
Lovely. Always wanted a rosewood tele because of Harrison.
The pickups sound pretty dull, but nothing that couldn't be replaced with a set of Toneriders for ~ £60-70
Man that sucks that you can’t get one in the US, I love it and one buy one right now
Great video, thanks. Please check out more guitars from this brand especially the V and explore models. Like theese more afordable brands. So tired of fender (also Epiphone nowadays) and gibson high prices.
I went through my faze of buying expensive guitars...kept a few sold on the others....now I enjoy buying cheap guitars....some I mod some I leave alone....I think these antiquity guitars are excellent for the price.
Good Vibez Colin ❤💯💥💜🤍💙💛
Dang I love low priced guitars, that thing is pretty cool
Nice one Col, you're so right, it is wot it is. In my early career I remember buying my first electric guitar, the Audition by Woolys, (Woolworths) (who else started on it too.????) then moving up market ( so I thought) to the dizzy heights of my £40 Avon SG.. The Audition was a finger shredder with one inch action, 😂 the Avon SG was like a guitar equivalent of decaf coffee? I wish back then I could have accessed one of these cheapies you are showcasing so brilliantly,, so todays starters wont feel so bloody uesless like the rest of us who in our teens, struggled to get through a 3 minute song without needing plasters afterwards😂😂😂😂 cheers Col, laters😊
Cheers man… I used to dream of an Avon SG through an Audition amp! 😂👍👍
Nice lead to While my guitar Gently weeps...Harrison tribute..sounded great...
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Black, without for me, thanks Gov.
Keep 'em coming Colin.
Harley Benton used to do a model that had a rosewood veneer from and back. I really liked it, but didn't get one in time.
Very good idea to review budget guitars.
Looks to be pretty well made.
Very nice guitar for the price. That ashtray needs to go though. If pots and control plate changed as well that guitar may be a real winner.For what you pay for it it's a must own.
Cheers Col!
Mate, what learners (or modders) have to choose from these days is insane, when you compare to the cheesecutter garbage some of us came across in the 70s... and the prices, l cdnt whinge about!!
A question if I may. Another TH-camr gave details about how to swop out ceramic magnets for alnico magnets in pickups.
Apparently it is pretty easy to do and there are suitable magnets available for single coil or humbuckers.
Any views, experience, thoughts about swopping magnets in pickups?
Ta
Nice one Colin, every budding guitar player yearns for a top line fender or gibson but do they play or sound £1,000 or £2,000 better than the HB or this PMT ..... Absolutely not....
I have the Harley Benton non-rosewood non-Tele. This one looks nice, too. I wanted a real Telecaster because of James Burton. Got a deal on a 52 Custom Shop. I’m good with Teles…at least the traditional kind. There are other variations.
Nice to see they cater for left handers too and come with a 2 year warranty!
I love the high end stuff for the eye candy and the daydreams but budget to mid range gear always piques my interest.
I know I could have less guitars and one really high end one - but I like having the different shapes, colours, styles and configurations at my fingertips based on my mood
@ 3:00 or thereabouts. Agreed my friend! I think guitar players need at least three guitars.
A trophy guitar - on basis look what I got!
A day-to-day guitar - based on I wonder if I twiddle this, tweak that and ... but no way will I do that to my trophy guitar
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family entertain ment around campfire bbq ... coastal day out ... (preferably nylon strung so as not to disturb similar adventurers) as it avoids trophy damage cables kit noise levels on both trophy and day2day (hmmm should I copyright that 🙂)
Nice review mate big fan from 🇦🇺 🤘
Another excellent review 👌 ..that's not a bad looking guitar loved the jam, those bends on the strings were epic..
I can't believe my first Ibanez Les Paul copy from 1978 was £99 and 46 years later you can still get a half decent guitar for not much money. Not a great range for left handed but certainly impressed with the range for right handed.
An idea for a new episode. Review a guitar before and after you have the fret board running it across a Plek machine.
Absolutely love watching you
😊🙏
Nothing wrong with a cheap guitar,looks like a pretty good starting point,then you can add some better pickups,wiring,pots& switches,then you’ll have a real beast of a guitar,I have a made in china epiphone casino I added Lindy frailin p90’s 4 500k pots & Gibson wiring,& it’s a really really good guitar
Beautiful sounding guitar 🎸One of your guitar solos sounded like babe I'm going to leave you. What you played has brilliant chord changes even if it was while 🎸 my guitar gently weeps 😮Your guitar 🎸 playing is definitely improving with your own signature style
Cheers that’s appreciated! 😊🙏… and now you mention it I can hear that zep track too! 😁👍
I am not sure if it's just me, but when I tried this a while back, it seemed quite dark (tone wise), and when I tried the Squier Classic vibe a couple weeks back, I heard a huge difference in high end. Has anyone else noticed this?
Just as an FYI, antiquity from PMT is made by Harley Benton. Some guy posted a video touring the factory...
Ah thanks for that! 👍
Neck pickup as woolly as my Squier 50s Tele . When I complained to Fender the reply was “ What do you expect from a Squier “ Point is the bridge pickup is excellent and the neck a dog . If I’d paid the price of the PMT here fair enough but not for the Squier. A new neck pickup beckons , Iron Gear or something like that .
Body looks more like creosote than rosewood, but who cares.
Fender Telecaster necks were originally all 21 fret fingerboards. When they introduced the 22 fret necks, in order to use the same body, neck rout and bridge placement for both 21 and 22 fret necks they put the end of the 22 fret fingerboard on an overhang. There is a gap between the body and the overhang such that the scratchplate slides underneath the end of the fretboard. On a Fender guitar the scratchplate will fit both a 21 and a 22 fret neck. I'm guessing that this 22 fret neck does not have a gap beneath the overhang allowing the plate to slip underneath it, as on the Fender plates the screw holes looked a few mm to far towards the bridge when compared with the holes in the body.
Someone told me that rosewood is very heavy, so the real rosewood one that was given to GH was something that you would not want to gig with....
Nice review Colin, as usual……Maybach Albatroz 65 junior next please, as I want one and I value your opinion…
Your vote has been counted… 😁👍
Just wondering which Boss Loop Station are you using?
I use the RC5
14:03 Wish you would have done a scratchplate fitting the Harley Benton two weeks ago as I plan to buy one and mod its scratchplate T.T
Great guitar - sounds like the nut slots could do with filing a bit lower though...
Buying firewood 🔥😂🤣❗ love your humor .... can you burn firewood in 🇬🇧 ❓
Not sure these days! 😆🤷♂️
Damn tempter and teaser ... now I am trying to figure out room for one more😢
Love that guitar , I’m a big fan of these low price beauties. I’m seriously thinking about getting the Flying V in their range
well if I don't manage to resist you may be able to pick a lightly used one up locally in the not too distant future... 😆
@@theguitaristas I’m up for that!
Cheers Col 👍🏻
Since you brought it up, why not do a comparison of LP style guitars from the same Brands/manufactures.
Fender designs were developed to be cheap and easy to produce. There is only so much that can be done while staying within that design ethos. Rosewood would increase cost of production and add major weight. I doubt much could be done to improve their sound. Their sound is from electronics not the wood they are made from. This shows what a Fender is actually worth. Cheers.
Totally agree!
Looks nice, but most of the antiquity guitars (mainly T style) haven’t been great at all. Strangely enough, the Antiquity Explorer and V did feel quite nice
You need to reorganize your guitar rack so the hang at an angle so you can put all of them on the back wall
great beginner guitar. Anything that gets folk picking one of these fantastic instruments up is always good. Then we can always upgrade…..
Overlay the pickguards on each other to see if they're identical
I have to say that when it comes to cheaper fretboard woods. I much prefer Indian laurel to Pao Ferro. I find Pao Ferro too reddish. The darker the fretboard, the better.
Sweet tele clone brotha!
Now i know you got ya eyes on that red SG hey!
Ever heard of GEARIT brand?
I recently got a semihollow tele clone of that brand with a soapy p90 in the neck and a humbucker in the bridge....surf green! And cheap as chips!