NGD - really cheap Tele! STOP PRESS: Audio added now....

Oops! I seem to be a malevolent influence on an acoustic forum!

Congratulations though, I’m really pleased with mine. As you say they’re well built and come well set up, all I needed to do was lower the action on mine to how I prefer it. I took it to a local* tech to sort the nut for heavier strings and he was very impressed with the neck.

* I moved house 10 days before lockdown and was fortunate to find a well respected tech within 5 minutes walk of my front door. He also won’t do more work than is necessary; I’d asked him to fit a new nut but his view was the slots just needed sorting.

I put Newtones on mine but that’s as much because I was putting in an order and he had some in stock. My view is that string choice, once you have your preferred weight on, is less important on an electric guitar as there are so many other things that shape the sound: the pickups, wiring, amplifier and any effects that you’ve added.

Thanks chaps. Really pleased there were no cries of "Judas"!

Shan't be appearing on vid with it though, Phil - it's scary enough doing that with an acoustic, and I doubt I could do a convincing solo electric guitar thingy anyway!

However, I do have some very rough and ready sounds for you. I need to record quickly and simply without faffing with lots of gear setting up (gave that up a while back!) so I just plugged the Tele into a DI box, then into the line in socket of my Zoom H2n and thence to USB and PC to record direct into my usal Cakewalk software. Almost inevitable my 1/4 " jack to mini jack adapter didn't want to co-operate, but after a bit of wiggling and carefully propped up positioning it did the job until I find where my other ones are.

Reasonable sounds right away, yay! So I did a fairly stumbling multitrack recording - please forgive poor timing and fingerfumbles here and there - I have a lot to learn when it comes to these new-fangled electrical geetars.

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The tracks are all dry, no eq or effects - my next task is to find some suitable gentle reverb etc to thicken up the single note lead sound. Quite like the arpeggiated bits as they are.

I'll let you know how I get on!

Hope y'all are having a good weekend. Stay safe.

Keith

Nice Keith, do like a Tele. One of my biggest regrets was selling my 1963 in Vintage Blonde, just because I needed to buy a house! I can recommend the GHS, David Gilmour Boomers, they do them in 10-48 and 10.5-50.

I do expect to hear some Status Quo covers from you now.  (Or maybe just some Michael Chapman)

When I heard the first few bars I was expecting a cover from Blonde on Blonde.
Cool sunburst by the way 
Have fun

Nice geetar there.
Well done for the recording, too.
Strings wise, I use Elixirs for electrics but D'addario and Fender knock out some great strings, too.
You'll get a much better sound from a proper electric combo.
Cheap as chips, is the fender Mustang series.

Well done mate!

Coincidentally, I have also investigated a cheap Squier electric during lockdown - not having played an electric for years and years. I decided to get my late-1990s Squier Jagmaster out of the attic, where it has lain untouched for about 15 years. As its name suggests, it is a cheap electric in the fender jaguar/jazzmaster vein. It's very simple: two humbuckers, three switch positions, 1 volume knob, 1 tone knob.

Coincidentally I am playing it through my AER Acoustic 60 amp. The guitar sounds way more bassy than I remember it. But that may be because I am playing fingerstyle jazz on it, whereas when I last played it I was a callow youth playing distorted indie rock with a plectrum and a Colorsound Fuzztone distortion pedal.

My AER 60 has a a decent built-in reverb. (It also has built in chorus which I'm ashamed to say I never even noticed until now) It seems almost too good to be true that two of the pickup positions sound remarkably warm and jazzy, given that playing jazz was the sole reason I dusted off the electric out of curiosity. But then again I suppose a jazz sound is largely about a clean, warm tone - and the AER amp certainly gives you clean, while picking medium guage strings gently in the lower register certainly gives you warm.

I'm finding the narrow nut width hard to adjust to, but getting there. Playing a narrower nut on an electric for some reason doesn't feel quite as awkward as playing a narrower nut on an acoustic - I guess because it feels like an entirely different instrument.

It still hasn't quite scratched my itch for a proper jazz box. I'm currently eyeing up the cheap and cheerful Hartwood Novella (with its 44.5mm nut... nice)