But how does this play? With just a tuning (no intonation or fixing of the neck) it plays pretty well (would play better in the hands of someone who played better than I do as well)! I do agree with him, but it also helps if the guitar looks good too. PlayabilityĪ good friend of mine reminds me (often) that a guitar is a tool and it doesn’t matter what it looks like. I’ll need to fix that, which I will do in another post. There is a <1mm gap on one side that you can actually use it to hold a pick. I’m not saying I could do any better – as my previous build experience shows. This does spoil it for me, its a shame really, thankfully it is only in places and not all the way around it. That is probably the worst out of all the edge issues. There is bleeding on the binding onto the body. When you get up close though, you can see where a £135 guitar can lose out on quality control. He was probably 6foot before carrying around one of these all the time!
It weighs 10.1 pounds! If this is true to the weight of the original MadCat, then it’s no wonder Prince was short. I ordered mine on the 18th of February and it arrived on the 23rd March. The reviews are good, and it must be popular (or take a long time to make) as there is a 9-12 week wait now. Spec-wise, the TE-80 is pretty good, its got a solid ash body with a walnut stripe, a Canadian maple bolt-on neck, and a pair of Strat-style Alnico single coils. So by this, cheap doesn’t always mean it’s bad. The cabinet I use is Harley Benton and it sports a Celestion v30 speaker, and the whole thing costs only slightly more than the speaker alone. Harley Benton products are not expensive, and tend to score fairly well in reviews. The cheapest guitar I have ever bought (apart from a £30 Squier Telecaster I picked up at a garage sale).
The “proper” ones now retail for anywhere from £2000-£4000 – far above my budget, but there are cheaper options – such as a dodgy DHGate Chinese copy, or a Harley Benton TE-80 NT Deluxe, which is what we are looking at today. He was a musical genius, and while his stage guitars were often very curious designs, his go-to guitar was an 80’s Hohner (or one of many copies of it he had made). He was the kind of rarity that does not occur often in life.
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