I am very familiar with Telecasters and already owned a CS Nocaster which I love. I researched this Paisley and the videos sparked my interest because of the body wood and the pickups. I am a Brad Paisley fan. When it arrived, I plugged it in and was disappointed at first. It played fairly well and was set up the way one would expect it to be, but not to my expectations. String height was almost perfect, a liitle too much bend in the neck. The iIntonation was way off. When I removed the pickguard to adjust the truss rod and the neck pickup (which was way too low), I found that the nut on the truss rod seemed to absolutely too loose as if no one had bothered to intonate. Wanting to retain the resonance of the body, I did not tighten the rod as much as I usually do. I immediately changed the strings to a higher quality set of .46-.10's nickel wound. The action on the guitar was very "slack" and the string needed to be "pulled" way too much to achive a one step bend up. Not good....not acceptable. The string barrels need to be moved toward the neck a lot to get the intonation correct, and thankfully, this decreased the "play" on each string so I did not need to bend the B or E strings2/3 's of the way across the fretboard. After achieving a set-up that I could live with, I put the guitar through it's paces. I was extremely pleased with the balanced blend of both pickups and the neck pickup was perfect for blues. bridge pickup performed like the 1960's Telly's I remember,; not as… read more raw as my favorite Nocaster neck pickup with the steel baseplate, but hot enough to make it interesting. Backing off the volume and using the neck or both pickups and doing some fingerpicking, the acoustic quality of the Paisley Telecaster Spruce and Paulonia body wood really shines through. You can really hear that spruce resonance they talk about in the advertising hype. This guitar is a "keeper". The only thing is, the sparkle paint job is plug ugly. Oh, well...... I love it!

Musical Background:
Have played for 51 years

Musical Style:
Blues read less