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Can you get a decent electric guitar for the price of a tank or two of gas?

A lot of people say you can’t find good deals at guitar shows anymore. But strangely, I can usually find something in the Bottom Feeder range to go home with. A while back I was looking around at the Spartanburg Guitar Show in South Carolina when I spotted this AXL Tele-style guitar (Photo 1), which was looking quite lonely on the very last row.

The last row is always my favorite place at that show because that’s where the cheaper guitars usually reside. I picked up the guitar and looked at it. With a price tag of $99, it wasn’t bad. What drew me to the guitar, however, was its visual appeal—there’s nothing quite like an aged-looking blonde Tele with a matching maple neck and black pickguard. Man, that guitar had me at hello.

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See and hear AXL's fresh take on the classic Filter'Tron-and-Bigsby formula.

Limited to a first run of 50 pieces, the Hand-Aged Bulldog has the look and feel of a guitar that''s been played for years.

Hayward, CA (May 1, 2013) -- Each AXL USA Hand-Aged Bulldog has been aged to perfection by our expert craftsmen to produce a one-of-a-kind instrument. Limited to a first run of 50 pieces, the Hand-Aged Bulldog has the look and feel of a guitar that's been played for years.

Just like our award-winning USA Bulldog, the Hand-Aged model features a solid mahogany slab body and one piece set neck, top-shelf components, including a Lindy Fralin dog-ear P-90, TonePros Featherweight wraparound bridge, CTS pots, Orange Drop Capacitor and TonePros Kluson vintage-style tuners, and our "Bite Switch," a push-pull pot to bypass the tone potentiometer for a biting mainline sound. For custom shop performance, we assemble every Bulldog by hand in our Hayward, CA workshop -- from pressing the frets to wiring the electronics.

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