Electric Guitars · Models

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G&L ASAT Classic

Electric guitar

A Telecaster-style electric from G&L, the company Leo Fender founded after Fender. The ASAT Classic uses G&L's Magnetic Field Design single-coil pickups in a familiar single-cutaway body, delivering a bright twang with a fuller low end.

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Fender Telecaster

Electric guitar

Launched in 1950 and renamed the Telecaster in 1951, it was the first commercially successful solid-body electric guitar. Its single-cutaway slab body, bolt-on maple neck, and two single-coil pickups produce a bright, cutting twang that became foundational to country, rock, blues, and pop.

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LSL T Bone

The T Bone is LsL Instruments' flagship T-style electric, hand-built in Santa Clarita as a recreation of the best vintage 1950s and 1960s T-style guitars. Each body is hand-detailed with a weather-checked thin nitrocellulose finish and fitted with LsL hand-wound single-coil pickups.

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Squier Classic Vibe '50s Telecaster

Electric guitar

The Squier Classic Vibe '50s Telecaster recreates the look and tone of a 1950s Telecaster, with a pine body, a maple neck and fingerboard, a 25.5-inch scale, 21 narrow-tall frets, two Fender-Designed alnico single-coil pickups in an SS layout, and a vintage-style string-through-body Telecaster bridge with barrel saddles.

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Squier Affinity Series Telecaster

Electric guitar

The Squier Affinity Series Telecaster is an affordable, lightweight Telecaster, with a thin poplar body, a slim C-shaped maple neck, a 25.5-inch scale, 21 frets, two Squier single-coil Telecaster pickups in an SS layout with three-way switching, and a string-through-body bridge.

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G&L ASAT Special

Electric guitar

A T-style sibling to the ASAT Classic, the ASAT Special swaps in two jumbo G&L MFD single-coil pickups with a wide, shallow coil for a fatter, P-90-like voice with punchy lows and sparkling highs. It uses the Leo Fender-designed Saddle-Lock bridge and is often called the quintessential G&L guitar.

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Friedman Vintage-T

United States

The Friedman Vintage-T is a single-cutaway, T-style solidbody electric guitar built in the USA by Dave Friedman with luthier Grover Jackson. The reviewed model pairs a mahogany body and a bolt-on maple neck with a pau ferro fingerboard and a set of Friedman Classic 90 (P-90 style) pickups over a fixed hardtail bridge. Thin aged nitrocellulose lacquer, a 10-to-14-inch compound-radius board, and Plek-finished fretwork give it vintage looks with modern playability.

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Tonfuchs Lovecaster

Germany

The Lovecaster is a Tonfuchs electric guitar built as a homage to the earliest solid-body electrics, hand-made in Germany by Uwe Schölch. It carries classic single-cut T-style voicing in the workshop's hand-built, ergonomically refined form.

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Shüe New Classic T

Malaysia

The New Classic T is a T-style electric guitar from Shüe Guitars of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, made to order. It pairs classic single-cut voicing with the shop's use of sustainably sourced lightweight local woods.

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Nash T-63

Electric guitar · United States

The Nash T-63 is a T-style solid-body electric guitar built by Nash Guitars with aged, relic nitrocellulose finishes. It features an ash or alder body with a rosewood fingerboard, two single-coil pickups, a hardtail bridge, and a three-ply pickguard, following the classic American single-coil solid-body design.

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LSL Bad Bone

The Bad Bone is an LsL Instruments T-style electric with the same feel as the T Bone but loaded with LsL's hand-scatter-wound humbuckers. The Bad Bone I pairs a higher-output LsL P-88 bridge humbucker with a vintage-voiced, lower-output neck humbucker.

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Macmull T-Classic

The T-Classic is Macmull Custom Guitars' T-style model, hand-built in Israel using the brand's high-quality components and hand-wound pickups. It uses Macmull's T-Classic hardtail bridge with the option of top-loading or string-through stringing.

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Chapman ML3

The ML3 is Chapman Guitars' contemporary take on the T-style guitar, blending classic aesthetics with modern performance. The family spans the dual-humbucker ML3 Modern, the P-90-equipped Thin Line Classic, and a set-through ML3 Semi-Hollow.