2010s Lepore (Antonio Tsai) Semihollow Electric Guitar

This guitar is branded "Lepore" but the owner is pretty sure he bought it on eBay from the Antonio Tsai shop in Vietnam. That tracks with its build quality, bling level, and styling. It's a fancy interpretation of an ES-335-style guitar, with a quilted maple top, carved mahogany body, classic-sounding humbuckers, and gussied-up, multi-ply trim throughout. It reminds me a "flametop" Heritage 535, to be honest, in both heft and feel.

So, while the Tsai outfit can build pretty guitars, almost all of their offerings play really funky by the time they get over here. Whether that's due to poor QC on the way out the door at the workshop or the guitars becoming destabilized by our vastly-different North American climate, I can't say, but at the minimum they usually need what I did to this one -- seating of the frets, a heavy-handed fret level/dress job, and a thorough setup.

Post-work this plays like a champ, feels really solid, and is ready to go.

Repairs included: a fret level/dress and setup.

Body wood: solid, multi-piece mahogany (carved top and back), with flamed-top veneer

Bridge: ABR-style

Fretboard: rosewood

Neck wood: mahogany

Pickups: 2x original humbucker

Action height at 12th fret: 1/16" overall (fast)
String gauges: 50w-11 (I think)

Neck shape: slim-medium C

Board radius: 12"

Truss rod: adjustable

Neck relief: straight

Fret style: medium

Scale length: 24 3/4"

Nut width: 1 11/16"

Body width: 16"

Body depth: 2" + arching

Weight: 8 lbs 7 oz

Condition notes: it's sort-of new and only shows the most minor wear save for two exceptions. The first is the frets which, while still full height for "medium" stock, are now lower after my level/dress job than if they were fresh "tall" medium stock like they were to begin-with. There's also a repair to the nut near the low E string where it had been chipped-out and patched. It's good to go.

It comes with: a good TKL hard case.