I chased it back a bit:
http://www.guitarfetish.com/Tele-Style-Bodies_c_71.html
As is typical, I attempted/tried to suspend my inner snarker to claw through the chat:
These are finished in thin, super-hard urethane- NOT hazy polyester.
DUDE, you glued a big fat slab of festive PLASTIC right to one whole side...
but how lightweight paulownia is going to sound while being half-finished in, umm, pretty-thick "poly", who knows? It's a crapshoot, it may work great, awful, or somewhere in between. We can be sure that proportionately, that slab o' progress is going to have a larger effect on tone than if it was glued to a weighty rock maple body - but I like rock maple bodies, in some ways heavy = good, and I have never, ever heard anything resembling real, tested, repeated EVIDENCE that thick or thin finishes matter on a BOARD. Having a lightly-finished BOARD that sounds great is not EVIDENCE until you have an exact duplicate, except heavy-finished, BOARD, that sounds awful.... boy them commas earned their keep, huh?
Danny Gatton played a drum-plastic tele for a while, and he sounded like Danny Gatton. I have had the minor hots (the warmths?) for a Godin Radiator, which is a drum-plastic git with a Gretchy sort of upper midrange peak, and 24 frets. If you buy it, you can find out what it sounds like, huh?
