if your into shredding an metal the tele is not the way to go!! really good guitars but just not made for it, especially cos its a thinline your lookin at the tone will just not be right. your best goin down to a music shop an actually playin them. if i were you i would look into gettin a second hand ibanez. you can get some really good bargains second hand and they are no worse than gettin somethin brand new (unless some one has actually used it as an axe). any way thats wot i suggest. cos all of the LP studio's i have played althouugh sounded nice didn't seem to have the greatest necks on them, this could just be cos i didn't play any decent ones though