LyxPro 30” Electric Guitar TL Series, Full-Size Paulownia Wood Body, 3-Ply Pickguard, C-Shape Neck, Ashtray Bridge, Quality Gear Tuners, 3-Way Switch & Volume/Tone Controls, 2 Picks Included, White

Very Good: 1) Lightweight (mine is 6.1 lbs) due to Paulownia wood. Years ago I played a Fender Brad Paisley Esquire (also Paulownia, but $1,600) and was amazed. Much less fatiguing to heft for long periods. This is what is unique about the Lyxpro tele vs. Monoprice and all the other cheap teles. 2) Finish and overall looks -- looks as good as the pictures. Decent Enough: 1) Strings and frets were a bit gritty, so put on new strings and polished frets. 2) Pickups - not great, but not bad, especially the neck one. 3) Volume -- more linear than I expected, not just off/on. 4) Tone - very useable, unlike my other guitars that stay mostly at 10. Full treble on bridge p/u is bright and twangy, then can dial back to get many other tones... it doesn't just 'darken' the sound. (This might be true of all teles) 4) Neck and frets -- action initially very high; lowered bridge and gave truss rod 1/8 turn for more relief - not ultra low, but ok and playable. (see YT StewMac tele setup vid for easy guide). 5) Nut -- mine was cut right- no binding or popping. I penciled in some graphite. Note, strings are 9s -- I discovered the nut slots would need filing to accommodate 10s. Not Good: a couple of frets had slight string indentations. Would send it back if $400+ guitar, but expected some flaws for $99. Suggestion is to insert cardboard strip between strings and frets for shipping. SUMMARY: I have several guitars, but no tele type so wanted one for fun but w/o a big spend. Intrigued by good reviews on all the various budget models. Zeroed in on the Lyxpro due to lightweight Paulownia. A few flaws as expected, but overall great value and definitely cheapest way to have a lightweight guitar on hand. Someday I might try to upgrade pickups, controls, and/or bone nut (for 10s), but it's a low priority at this point. 2/24 tech note: Found out that the top edge of the pickguard is actually trapped underneath the tail of the neck. This means that if you want to remove the pickguard you must first unscrew the neck. Not a big deal, but an extra step if you want to cleanly remove all of the protective plastic film on the pickguard or if you want to replace the pickups.

Cutest little travel size guitar... It plays okay... it took some minor adjustment and intonation Frets feel good, board is scratchy Lastly, it did arrive with a pretty significant Crack by the pickup selector... the main markdown is arriving with damage... otherwise, pretty solid.

the quality is good but it sounds funny because of the scale length and everything else -- -it's an empty sound is the best i can say. I didn't hate it but I gave it to a friend to goof off on because of my mood on it. I think this is going to be good if you want to dial it in nice, figure out how to max it for your needs. It is also good for playing in tight space (car), grabbing from bedside, hanging on the wall and looking cool, buying for parts and building a cigar box and maybe repurpose the body. IMO, theory anyway, it might be better with a 24" scale like slap a cheap squire jag neck on the body then use this neck for the soap box and decide wich pickups you like for which. Maybe just a 1H for the mini telejag, something with some balls -- upgrade all the parts and then you have a full set for whatever you slap that neck on. Now you got a more playable travel, camping, quirky thing that plays well and is unique with a lot of parts left over . I'm not sure the body is long enought but if not ---extending it for the bridge to move back isn't impossible. As far as sound I don't really know but sound wise I see it working more with some kind of hilbilly thing or a novelty you pull out for one funny song. Overall, like I said the quality and feel wasn't the issue. It's just a very short scale and doesn't sound full so it's a guitar but not like a GUITAR if you know what I mean ---- but if you fine tune and and get the right effects/amps/pups you could do some REALLY cool-wierd stuff ------ overall just consider it's not good unless you are open minded --- if you are expecting it to sound and feel like a GUITAR then don't buy it. If you like it for a few reasons and know what it isn't and want to play around and see whre it takes you or use it as a doner then have a ball -- -- especially if you take a used one off their hands --- i saw one today for $45 --- my idea is to make it into a 24" scale and play good then modify the back to nest all kinds of small tools and have a swiss army guitar-knife --- also has bayonet --- shovel --- wodden hammer --- saw attachements and a water prooff cover so it can be used as a boat oar .... but I'm to lazy ... feel free to take my idea --- but post of picture

I can't complain about this one too much... it's a LYXPRO from the TikTok shop, so there's gonna be some quality issues with it, but it looks beautiful and it plays pretty good, I had some issues with dead frets at 9 and 11 and the inotation was garbage but once i got those problems worked out, it actually started sounding pretty good.....would i recommend this as a substitute for an actual FENDER TELECASTER...no... however...if you are looking for a budget guitar that looks beautiful and plays okay, then this might be right up your alley, it feels kinda cheaply made overall, the pickups seem to have way too much buzz, the neck was uneven and the fret ends are not smoothed out...*OUCH!* Overall if you want a decent Telecaster then save your money for a Fender, but if you just want a budget guitar that looks nice then you could do a lot worse

My 14 year old son bought this and it sounds really good. Comes ready to go out of the box just have to tune it. For the price this is a good sturdy guitar that would be great for beginners or someone who just enjoys playing.

I've purchased eight cheap guitars in the last three months to modify and learn luthier skills: Glarry, Grote, Ashthorpe. None of them were great, but some of them weren't bad. This Lyx is bad. It looks fantastic - seafoam green with rosewood-ish neck, fairly good construction, but the bridge wasn't centered and was crooked. I had to remove it, fill in the holes, drill new ones and place the bridge in the proper position. I should have returned it, but I saw it as good luthier-in-training practice. Tuners on all these cheap guitars aren't very good, but these are terrible - worst I've seen. I can't get it in tune, let alone keep it in tune. Intonation adjustment is a struggle. I've tried and tried, but it's unplayable since it's untunable. String height was high, but lowering it resulted in fret buzz that I'll have to address. Pickup sound is on par with all the other cheap guitars. On the plus side, fretwork was decent - no sharp-edged fret sprout. That's about the only positive other than the fact that it looks cool. From experience, I know quality on these cheap guitars is all over the place. You might get a good one, you might not. I didn't get a good one; in fact, I got a really bad one.

This comes across as a guitar for beginners. But, it did not come playable. I have quite a bit of experience, and that's needed to get this playable. I had to adjust the neck quite a bit to set the relief properly. The nut is very low quality and cut far too deep, so the strings touch the frets (especially the high E/first string). The pickups don't sound good, but are acceptable at this price. The tuners hardly work and will need to be replaced. For a mod project, it's well worth the price if you want this specific guitar. The finish is pretty good (if you don't mind neck pocket cracks) and the neck is OK. For a beginner, which I believe is the purpose of this guitar, it won't work and would leave a new player too frustrated to be fun to play. It'll take an experienced tech (and at least as much as the guitar costs) to get it to a playable and stable state. If you're OK with paying for the much needed improvements and adjustments, then go for it. But, there are better options that will come more playable out of the box.

This is my first telecaster shaped object. I've played a couple Tele's at various guitar shops so I sorta knew what to expect. Let's go through this guitar, shall we? -First off, this is a telecaster copy from China. It's not a real tele, and doesn't measure as a real tele. For instance, the neck pocket won't allow a Warmoth or Fender tele neck. The sizes and screw hole placement are all different. -Fit and finish: Overall for $110 tele, it's really nice. The maple neck and fretboard were flawless. Frets were a bit gritty but smooth on the edges. A couple quick passes with 1000 grit fret eraser made the frets smooth as glass. The body is a Natural look, so I was able to see that this is a 3 piece body made of Paulownia wood which is really lightweight but easily dented. The woodgrain really shines through in mine but I've seen some really dark spots in others. The sanding job is a bit off in spots around the edges of the body, but at this price point I'm not worried about it. If you look really hard in just the right light, you can see some of the crosshatch sanding marks, but again at this price point I'm not worried. Neck plate screws were well tightened and the neck to body fit is good. No shims needed at this point. -Electronics/Pickups- Right off the bat these are ceramic pickups (single coil bridge, single coil lipstick neck) so don't expect alot of punch. Pots are dime sized and a just a bit gritty. Some contact cleaner will hopefully clear that up. Switch is a bit clunky but works. I would recommend alnico pickups and better pots/caps. Pickguard is a three layer which looks great, but where it was cut at the neck joint and the bridge is chattered and will need some light sanding to smooth out the rough edges of the cut. -Strings: Strings that came with it were 9's and are garbage. Basically they just are there to keep some tension on the neck. They were slightly detuned and the neck set arrow straight. I tuned it up, and gave the neck the proper relief. I let it sit for 24 hours at pitch then rechecked. Only a eighth of a turn to get 12 thou of relief. Action is a mile high at 6/64s so that's gotta come down. The bridge is a top loader and not a string-through, no biggie. Three piece saddle set up so it's easy to set action and intonation. -Packing and other items: Packing was crap. Basically the guitar was wrapped in the usual thin foam shroud, and put into a guitar box with minimal styrofoam blocks. No gig bag, no extra padding, nothing. That box was then put into a HUGE Amazon box with a couple pieces of brown paper that kinda floated around the box. No additional padding or anything from Amazon. Thankfully, it survived the trip from NJ to CO intact and with no issues. Accesssories included two allen wrenches; one for the truss rod, one for the saddles. Also came with two unmarked picks which go in the spare pick jar. -OVERALL: For $110US this is a tele shaped object and should be regarded as such. Out of the box it will need some love and adjustments. At this price point, the finish and workmanship is good and from 10 feet away looks like a million bucks. Some better electronics and pickups would definitely make this tele get up and holler, but for playing in my apartment, it's fine for the time being. For what I got at $110 bucks, you can't go wrong. -UPDATE: I restrung the Chinacaster (its new name) with Ernie Ball Super Slinky 9's. That made a HUGE difference in tone and overall performance. Truss rod adjustments are still holding really well at .012". I like my string action low at 4/64s so this caused the saddles to be slammed to the deck and the grub screws that adjust saddle height to stick out and grab at my picking hand. I'll need to add a hardwood veneer shim under the neck to bring this angle up bit so the saddles aren't so low. The nut is an issue. It's cheap white plastic that wasn't cut very well and needs to be replaced. It's causing some string buzz on the D string, at least I think it is. It might be the string trees or maybe even the D/G saddle. More investigation is needed, but that plastic nut has to go regardless. My nut measures 42mm x 3mm x 5.6mm. I have a lefty bone nut ordered. The overall sound with new strings and setup is decent. I wouldn't rave about it, but it's fine for bedroom or extremely small bars or venues. It definitely needs better electronics and pickups. The tone pot has no real taper and can be easily described as all or nothing when it comes to tone. Volume pot is similar, but not as bad and has some taper. For $110 US it's a great base to make a killer tele.