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HOHNER TE CUSTOM 1988 I bought this off e-Bay in 2010 as a backup guitar, mainly for open tunings at the time. It's quite a nice Tele copy, in upgrade Californian maple with a Canadian rock-maple neck, and has the remains of gold-plate adhering to hardware, and a bruise-saving Strat-type cutaway as well. It does the Telecaster bit pretty well, especially now I've exchanged the old Kent Armstrong pickups for a set of Tonerider Vintage Plus. I've also given it a new tortoiseshell scratchplate, some some new Gotoh saddles for better intonation, and it's just returned from Manson's after a fret redress with the action pretty much perfect. Hohner were indeed thinking "professional" when they introduced these, for apart from a maple body and the cutaway, it has a bullet truss rod and even a Microtilt neck mechanism. The neck pickup is, for some reason, a little further from the fingerboard than on a real Tele - I doubt it makes much difference.
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