Models

G&L ASAT Classic

T-style solid-body electric guitar model family

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.

LSL T Bone

T-style electric guitar

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.

Friedman Vintage-T

USA-built T-style electric guitar with P-90 pickups

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.

Fender J5 Telecaster

Electric guitar model

Electric guitar

A signature Telecaster for guitarist John 5, stripped down for hard rock and metal use. It pairs a bridge humbucker with a single-coil neck pickup and is usually finished in stark black-and-chrome or similarly bold cosmetic schemes.

Jim Root Telecaster

Fender Telecaster electric guitar

Electric guitar

A signature Telecaster for Slipknot guitarist Jim Root, built for heavy music and minimalism. It uses active humbucking pickups, a single volume control with no tone knob, and is typically finished in flat black or white with an ebony fingerboard.

Yamaha Pacifica 1511MS

Mike Stern signature guitar model

Electric guitar · Japan

The signature Pacifica model of jazz-fusion guitarist Mike Stern, modeled on his well-worn Telecaster-style instrument. It features an alder body, a maple neck, and a pair of single-coil pickups voiced for his clean, articulate tone.

G&L ASAT Special

T-style solid-body electric guitar model family

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.